Black Dragons are warriors. They are strong and capable in battles of force, but also ample magic users, capable of devastating opponents with their spells. Their bright eyes give them excellent night vision, which is why they generally hunt during the night.

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.

Keera Inks is a young Black dragon. Like all of the other Black dragons in her clan, she lives in a secluded cavern where Izar stores all of the parchment and ink. She is always found drawing very graphically violent pictures, often of a mutated dragon-beast she calls "the Rake" killing other dragons in horrible ways. She is secretly in love with the clan's leader, Izar, and will often give him these pictures as gifts, usually with him as the victim. This disturbs him, and makes him think that she's planning on murdering him, but since he sees the good in everyone and knows she probably means well, he never has voiced his suspicions about her. She never leaves her clan's cave no matter what, and always warns the hunters about the Rake whenever they go to the forest. Most of the dragons simply brush her warnings off as one of her many strange quirks, but Izar thinks she may be onto something.