Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has bright blue eyes, and is as clumsy as any other hatchling, but it never seems to get injured.

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.

Zek is a twitchy little hatchling. He's always afraid that the adults will be angry with him whenever he messes up, and almost never breaks the rules as a result. Shiny things, such as gold coins, fascinate him greatly, and he'll often try to hoard them under the nest.