Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys sunning itself in the morning light.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Byrto and Maryora are two remnants of the Magehaven colony, found by Myrnekal on a vast, largely featureless plain, where day met night in a sharp dividing line.  Byrto, who was found sitting on the daylight half, wanders ghostlike wherever he pleases during the day, much to the dismay of Dragonhaven Island's more nervous residents.  Like Maryora, he is silent—seemingly telepathically mute—and oddly fearful of other dragons, though he will listen intently to Thelsala's stories.