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.

King Pavel is a dragon of the Pseudo-Royal Hall, a clan of superb wanna-bes. Pavel is not the typical pygmy dragon, a species notorious for their tiny size and penchant for freeloading off scraps left behind by larger dragons. Slightly larger than the average pygmy male, Pavel is the go-it-alone type, hunting his own meals of birds and small ground mammals and taking his own shelter in the trees. Pavel hardly ever sees the rest of the Pseudo-Royals, which suits him fine; no chance of him ever falling back on the house-cat ways of his dependant brethren, a shameful fate.