Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

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.

The Wealth of Nations is old enough to have lived in a time before his motley community traded items in their hoard and before different dragons had jobs that helped the network as a whole. He has studied groups of dragons like his and some human groups as well, writing about things that most don't find terribly interesting, like increasing wealth, trade for resources, colonization, and other subjects. The Wealth of Nations doesn't have a term for his field of study other than describing it as a science of getting and giving things, with minimal interference from authority. There are many dragons (and some humans) also interested in the science-of-getting-and-giving-things who disagree with some of his assertions. In particular, there's a much younger dragon named The General Theory from a rival territory who studies much the same thing he does but has come to different conclusions regarding wealth and authority intervention.