Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Although technically one of the founding residents of Rekha Cave, Alizarin prefers to spend most of her time in the hills and mountains surrounding the caverns.  To her enormous amusement, a nearby village began trying to give her its virgin daughters as sacrifices.  She would have preferred some of the village sheep.  Whenever she's given a girl as an offering, she flies the child to a nice orphanage a few countries away; in return, THEY give her sheep and promise not to sacrifice the girl to anything.  She mostly does this to keep her "sister," Violacea, from guilting her on those occasions when she stays at the cave.  A few foolhardy knights have attempted to vanquish her, giving rise to her new hobby -- metalsmithing.  She loves to take apart, examine, and reconstruct the knights' suits of armor (once they're beyond needing them), and in the process seems to have invented abstract sculpture a few centuries early.  Not that any human has ever seen her artwork, or is likely to.