Vermeil Dragons are a breed known to most for maintaining simple but meticulously clean nests and shelters that, should one be caught out in bad weather, the dragons will share even with humans. They are patient, and make excellent listeners due to their even temperament and curiosity. Their pleasant scent, similar to strawberries but with stronger floral notes, tends to make the stay comfortable. However, these dragons are also known for dispensing extremely blunt advice, particularly on romantic matters. Plenty of humans caught out in the rain or snow have left a Vermeil’s den with unsolicited advice suggesting they admit their feelings before the opportunity is lost forever. While they’re difficult to anger, a threatened Vermeil will generally use its tail to defend itself, smacking the target upside the head.

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.

As an Old One, Lord Pan has his unusual habits, dwelling among the peaceful dragons of the Weyr of Soft Flowers. He keeps a very neat den, and though he enjoys some company, he loathes having most other dragons in his space. Too many large creatures is a recipe for disaster.

His distaste for mess was actually what brought him to his mate, Windscare, who he met while she still lived in the Weyr of Flame. They shared matching opinions about how many animal bones constituted a mess (any at all, thank you) and how frequently a den should be swept (at least once a week, twice in the fall to account for leaves), and they spent many an evening together sharing herbal cleaning mixes or hygienic scale treatments. He fell tail over scale in love with her, her prickly exterior, her focused attention. He asked her to den with him, and she asked him, hesitantly, if he was sure he could bear her messy edges.

She could never be too messy to him, of course. They've happily lived together ever since.