Common Pygmies are sweet in temperament and palate. They spend a fair amount of time foraging for and scavenging food but have a particular fondness for sweet tasting treats, such as honey. When pickings are slim, they can hunt songbirds and small mammals. Common Pygmies stay in large groups, migrating alongside their food supply. Although capable of the same basic vocal sounds of most other dragons, Common Pygmies prefer to communicate through body language. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that Common Pygmy hatchlings are rather affectionate.

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.

Pygmy dragons are the smallest category of dragons, being on the same scale as domesticated animals. They are often found around concentrated populations of dragons, relying on their larger brethren to ward away potential predators and leave scraps. As such, the majority of a pygmy’s diet is scavenged. Due to their tiny size, pygmies do not breed with larger varieties of dragons.

Virtue Vinbred has always tried to live by, well, virtues, despite her family's odd beliefs, restrictions, and requirements. Although she can not uphold the virtue of Chastity, as she is now mated, she still tries to always live by the other six "core" virtues. She never eats more than her own share and practices restraint in all aspects of her life; she owns nothing of her own, instead giving anything that comes into her possession to others; any work she may do, she puts every effort into; she tries to have patience at all times and forgives slights at the drop of a hat; she shows empathy and trust without prejudice or resentment and unselfish love and voluntary kindness without bias or spite; and is always modest and selfless.

Needless to say, her mate Vice thinks she is just an old prude.