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.

Dawnsong, like her mother, is an early riser, always adding her chirps to the dawn chorus.  Unlike Dawn-Greeter, though, she never insists friends and family rise to greet the sun with her.  Dawnsong is quick, but tires easily, so she usually does her hunting partnered with another Pygmy Mouser who is slower but possesses greater stamina.  She is rather quiet and restrained, and thus more like her nestmate Kulora's parents than like her own, leading some to wonder if Dawnsong and Kulora had their eggs switched sometime between laying and hatching.  To Dawnsong, though her parents are the ones who raised her, no matter who actually laid her egg.