Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys swimming in a nearby pond.

And look! Its fins and tail have gotten bigger, and you’ve moved it to a larger body of water to swim in. 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.

Ak'ello once had a crush on another adorable water dragoness that, unfortunantely, was already betrothed to another water dragon. Her parents, fearing that she would fall in love with Ak'ello, hired a magician to permanently freeze Ak'ello as a hatchling, thus ensuring she would marry her betrothed as they wished.