Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

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.

Whispering Willowclaw (or "Whisper," for short) is outwardly quiet and demure—the typical pink dragon—but possesses a surprising strength of character.  Nobody can bully or domineer her, though many have tried, and even dragons who should know better often underestimate her.  Whisper is one of the few dragons who can sometimes talk sense into Valor Goldenblaze, and can give him a thorough critique of his actions without ever raising her voice above a mental whisper.  What she gets out of the relationship is unclear, unless it's a chance to be part of the "great destiny" fate supposedly has in store for Valor.