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.

A dragon with a very large heart but a very small body, Joe decided quite some time ago that dogs have the perfect lives. They run around, bark, lick people--and in return get fed, housed, and loved! Clearly this was the ideal sort of bargain one could ever hope to strike, and so one day he marched up to a farmer and asked to be his new dog.

The farmer blinked, scratched his beard, and finally told Joe he could, on one condition: he also had to help herd his sheep.

Several years have passed since then. The farmer's business is doing better then ever, and some blame it on sorcery, for it always seems as if his sheep move in perfect order all on their own, without any dog to guide them. Yet those who look closer see the truth; a cheerful little pygmy nipping at their heels, then crawling in and dozing before the fireplace, just like a dog, when his work is done!