Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

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.

Calacirian is called the "dragon of light" by his fellow clan members. Light is the only thing that he hoards, all objects he collects are merely a means to capture or create light. Anything that catches, reflects, refracts light or glows will find its way into his talons. He is known in the caves for carving holes to bring light into pools of water or shards of glass, he raises glowing mushrooms and insects (and often fights with the striped dragons over the latter). He steals all kinds of lanterns and lights and has been known to take black dragon and orange dragon eggs wherever he can find them.