Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

Tanath would have been forced to suffer the same fate as all male Hellfire Wyverns, had he been unfortunate enough to have been paired with one of the Clan's female Hellfire Wyverns. Fortunately for him, a quirk in the ordering of his mistress's scroll placed him near the top. So when the time came for the Clan's most finicky Gold to breed, his placement on the scroll proved to be a blessing, as he among the Clan's other cave born males was chosen. That pairing resulted in the finicky Gold's first egg and although not golden, the success convinced his mistress to continue the pairing, eventually resulting in a Gold. Tanath is immensely proud of his Gold son and will flaunt that success every opportunity he gets.