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.

Although she is the 'pet' of a lesser human noble, Needlefang is a life-long member of Preto Osso's weyr and refuses to let the silly teenage girl who considers herself the master of the little dragoness get in the way of her natural life.

Truth be told, she was sent to keep an eye on her human's father; the greedy man posed a threat to the weyr with his beady eyes fixed firmly on the metal ores buried deep beneath Preto's cave.  Although he was eager to take his daughters and raze the noble's village, Winged Nimbus talked the aggressive Alpha male into a more subtle attack.

With her great intelligence and knowledge of the lands around the cave, Needlefang charmed her way into gaining the noble's daughter's affection.  Since the tiny Pygmy's stationing in the household itself, she's been able to overhear the noble's plans to sneakily drive the weyr away; thanks to Needlefang, all attempts have been easily thwarted.