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.

Gentle and fond of family as they are, many Coppers choose to center their lives around doing good for their children. In some ways, this female is no different, and yet at once she is very much unlike the others. When she was just a young and fledgling mother, raising her first brood, she lost each and every child--not to illness, nor starvation, but rather to the terrible jaws of a beast known as Kazindus. This monster--a dragon of dark secrets and darker magic, a shapeless blackness--was the center of a human cult who offered him draconic sacrifices daily, making him ever stronger, ever more ready for... something.

Stricken by grief, but with her heart screaming for justice, this female and her mate set forth to take down the evil growing in the shadows. One by one they tempt the cult members into their claws, their captures exposing one new horror and one new riddle after the next, but always leading them and their growing number of allies forward--toward Kazindus. Toward the end.