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.

A wyvern of calm and somewhat mournful demeanor, Grace and Glory (often either shortened to Grace or to Glory) was orphaned as a hatchling when her parents were killed by a human they once trusted. Luckily, a peculiar Black Dragon of few words managed to save her before she was killed. However, the dragon disappeared soon afterwards and Grace wound up being cared for by a wandering clan of White Dragons. It wasn't until she was a young adult that she narrowly lost her second family when a large clan of even more vicious Hellfires attacked the village they were staying at. Not wanting to be all alone again, she stopped the dragons by calling out to them using a haunting, mournful song. Somehow, the dragons halted briefly, buying enough time for everyone else to escape. The other clan was angry about this and savagely attacked Grace. She barely managed to get away, and found herself wandering into a large cave, where she met a Black dragon like the one who saved her years ago, Zero Beat.