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.

While Quayos is good-natured and very friendly towards humans, many of Dragontown's stall-tenders flinch when they see him fly by, remembering such incidents as the time he knocked loose a roof tile, setting in motion a sequence of events leading to three crashed carriages, two smashed stalls, numerous minor injuries, and enough ruined produce to feed the whole city for a week.  He isn't intentionally destructive—he just has a gift for causing inadvertent mayhem.  Kestrel finally found a way to channel some of this havoc by recruiting Quayos for the Pygmy Mousers and sending him into the sewers as often as possible, where the amount of damage he could do was reduced, and at least some rats would be disposed of in the process.