Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Scarlette is a warm, motherly type, and likes to sit on eggs. Anyone's eggs. She is the cave's favourite babysitter, but it is lucky for everyone that dragon's eggs have such hard shells, as she is very overweight—with the result that occasionally the eggs she sits on hatch early.

She's far too fond of syllabub, but it's not easy to come by in the cave, so she makes do with Florentine biscuits. One day she hopes to sit on her own eggs, but until then, she wanders round the cave begging all the others to breed. Often.