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.

Woe betide anyone who tries to steal from the hoard of Gilded Queen while the gold tinsel is away, thinking that the lone pygmy dragon that guards the piles of gold and jewels couldn't possibly be any sort of threat.  Argae is known for her watchfulness, though, and very little ever gets past her.  She's the only guard Gilded Queen needs, and well worth the bother of feeding her.  True, one pygmy dragon, however fierce, might not be much of a threat to a determined treasure-seeker, but Argae has plenty of friends, and a screech from her will quickly bring any nearby pygmy dragons to help attack the interloper (who generally makes up some story about having fought off a vine dragon single-handed to explain the scratches).