Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

Elirka never did anything wrong. Her only crime was hatching in the middle of a war that raged throughout all of Valkemare. The war was between a clan of powerful Chrono Xenowyrms and belligerent Seragammas; she had played no part in it. Except that her clan had sheltered a small group of Chrono soldiers. When the Seragammas came they exterminated the entire clan but the Chronos and the oldest hatchlings, which they took hostage.

Elirka spent so long in the Seragamma prison camp that she soon forgot what it was like to not have to fight every day of her life, or always ache from the numerous magical weapons that were tested on her. The camp was liberated at the end of the war, but it was centuries later. Unable to return to her previous life, both physically and mentally, she now acts as a field agent in a special forces unit of the Chronos' army, fighting the scattered remaining Seragammas and constantly telling herself her suffering is over. She doesn't often believe it.