Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It occasionally shoots small puffs of smoke from its nose, like it’s trying to breathe fire.

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.

The Sickly Hatchling is a frozen red dragon. He is disabled and can only drag himself along on three legs, and is often confined to a small nest in the nursery. As an egg, his shell was thin and cracked, and several parts were strangely yellow tinted. The white dragons of his clan worked almost nonstop keeping him alive. When he finally hatched with only three usable legs, he was frozen to spare him misery. No one else can guess the cause of his disability, but the white dragons know it is inherited, and the hatchling is an inbreed. Since then, he is able to live a quiet life, dragging himself to the forest to visit the birds and animals and back to the nursery for his meals and sleep. He will never know what it is like to have a mate and kids, and eventually, the paralysis will spread up his body and into his brain, killing him forever. However, he is ready for death, and comforts himself by thinking he will die in the care of his friends and the white dragons that saved his life.