Pyralspite dragons are small, swift dragons that can breathe an intensely hot flame. They get their name from their resemblance to and affinity for garnets of the pyralspite family—they hoard such gems, preferring garnets that match their variant, and can tell the type of garnet from how it tastes. The red-violet variant is referred to as Almandine. Almandine Pyralspites are more aggressive than others of the same breed, and are very witty and love to mock or insult their opponents. They inhabit mountainous areas.

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.

Prince Almandi is the descendant of Queen Hycinthumare, queen of the Emerald Cave Kingdom, who cares for him like a thin piece of glass on the edge of a cliff. His father, however, is estranged. The kingdom assumes he was adopted, but no, his father just abandoned him. He was afraid of his mother after she made her place and her level of power clear.

Almandi is the heir of the throne. He is quite strange, spending most of his time in the library, reading books on all kinds of things. He is extremely bright, but his charisma is lacking, so who knows what kind of a king he'd make.