Black Marrows are named for their dark colored hides which are encased in a distinct exoskeleton. Their skull and the top edges of their spine push out from under the skin as they age. As such, their young need excessive amounts of calcium for this armor to develop. The older a Black Marrow dragon is, the more skeletal their appearance. They often use their skeletal looks to lure in foolish scavengers or terrify predators. These vicious dragons love nothing more than to crack open bones with their stony beaks and eat the marrow inside. Voracious scavengers, Black Marrows will swarm and devour corpses both old and fresh, sometimes even dragging larger finds to the water to allow them to “ripen.” Despite their dreadful demeanour and often horrid stench, Black Marrows are devoted mates and parents.

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.

This dragon lives in a harsh desert, where any water or food is scarce. His parents loved him dearly, but one day, at their nest high atop a desert mountain, humans came, and caged his parents and took them away, because his species is prized for its rarity. During the struggle, he was knocked out of the nest, and started to fall. His wings were strong, even for a hatchling, and he managed to flap his wings and glide safely to the ground. He found it hard to survive in the desert without his parents, until he discovered an oasis next to a cave. Inside the cave were vulture eggs, and he used them as his food source until he was full grown. He had watched how vultures ate carcasses and lay down to disguise himself as a carcass to attract the vultures. When the vultures came, he waited until they got close, and then emitted an ear piercing roar, which paralyzed the vultures with fright, pounced on them, and then he proceeded to devour them whole.