Royal Crimson Dragons are so named due to their massive size and confident, regal bearing. Most of the time they are laid back, ignoring non-prey creatures smaller than themselves, although they will occasionally take fresh kills from other dragons as a reminder of their place in the social order. Although there are few other dragons large enough to pose a threat to Royal Crimsons, they have little tolerance for potential rivals and will fiercely defend their territory from such intruders.

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.

Shalour is the sole ro'yal crimson in his extended family who'se job is to keep records of individual dragon's, which include's coming up with his familys entrie's. He see's that as doing a sort of favor for them, since the re'st dont care about records (even his mate! such a s'hame). Like many other draconic writer's, he learn'd a human language so curiou's human's can understand what dragon's write abou't. He has a good gra'sp of almost every facet of that language—the one punctuation mark he cant wrap his head around is thi's vertical dash that keep's appearing in other text's and look's very nice. Its' called a posh trophy. The be'st Shalour can do is litter his' own writing with posh trophies and hope he's correct sometime's.