Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence 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. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.

Dragons don’t communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.

Magi dragons are, as their name suggests, primarily magic users. They rarely use physical forms of attack. They eat anything they can kill, which is almost everything. They won’t kill unprovoked except when hunting, although they may kill humans if in danger. Their strong magic makes them one of the most feared breeds of dragons.

Stibbons is the son of Glinda and Ridcully. Despite his father's hopes he takes his looks from his father and his intelligence from his mother instead of the other way around. At least Stibbons isn't as secretly wicked as Glinda, it's only that he seldom thinks about real life consequences of his theories and experiments. Add that to the fact that he is short-sighted and a bit clumsy and one can see why his father was a bit disappointed by his first-born.

Nevertheless Stibbons stays quite optimistic that he will one day revolutionize the way dragons look upon magic even if today he hasn't the slightest idea how.