Rosebud Dragons are a fun and social breed found most often in the spring. The petal-like feathers that grow on their sides spread their sweet and floral scent. Although they have poor eyesight, they have ribbon-like extensions that extend their olfactory abilities to help create a map of the area around them. When flying, Rosebud dragons tend to hover, using their wings to fan their scent throughout the air. A widespread breed, they go to great effort to visit as many flowery fields as possible.

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.

Sour Bed "grows" lemons. Whenever she talks of her hobby, she encompasses certain terms with quotation marks (even wiggling her fingers when communicating verbally or telepathically) because she is not a farmer or anything and doesn't really know what she's doing. When the flowers are in bloom and Sour Bed has little else to do, she lies on the sturdiest branches in one flowerbed and feels the petals with her ribbons. Some people say that they're not "beds", they're "trees", but Sour Bed reasons that since she doesn't know what she's doing, she can use whatever terminology she likes. She was nicknamed Sour Bed by some clever friends for reasons she doesn't quite understand—something about rams and mixing words, they said.