Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a pink cloud that follows it everywhere. You seem to be having more difficulty concentrating since it arrived.

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.

Azura is trapped in one of her own daydreams and has been since she hatched. She thinks she is a Dark Green dragon, even taking the surname used by several of the flock's Vines as her own. She likes burrowing into the ground and using her magic to cloak herself in an illusion that makes her look like a Dark Green hatchling. She even lashes out with these illusory tendrils at anything that passes by.

Fortunately, her immature magic isn't strong enough to make the illusion solid, and she can only hold it for a few hours at a time before she is too exhausted to continue. With her delusion showing no sign of fading, the decision was made to keep it this way. Azura was frozen into her hatchling state, to make sure that her magic would never grow strong enough to make her deluded illusion dangerously real.