Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a large stone on its tail.

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.

Flameclaw the Handsome is just as handsome as his mother, if not more so. However shortly after he gained his horns and wings he got into a terrible fight with an enemy dragon when he was exploring by himself. Very beaten he was frozen so that the whites could save him.

Many dragons have whispered that his mother was cursed like his grandfather with bad luck because his grandfather took more than one mate.