Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise.

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.

A faded statue sits beside a spring just outside the forest of Silvinthi. The carving is simple but refined, a dragon curled around a pearl, worth a glance but not, perhaps, a second. Yet those who dwell in the shadow of the wood know it well, and offerings of fine meats and gems are left outside it daily. For it is a shrine to the great dragon from whom the once nameless forest took its name; Silvinthi, a hero of the Ashen Wars, in which ill-summoned demons nearly reduced all that land to rot and ruin. When the dragon and her companions had cast the monsters back into the void, she returned to her quiet home in the woods, and is said to live there still, ever watchful, and many pay her tribute for the rich blessings of her woods. All these legends are true, save those about her raining wrath on those who offer her nothing; for she is as gentle and kind as ever, a shadow among the shade, content to protect her forest and all who live there for no pay save that of peace and light.