Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon... except for the tangle of dangerous-looking vines surrounding it...

Now there are even more vines. Perhaps something is happening?

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.

Acts a lot older than he looks, he had a stroke of bad luck in his childhood. He got caught out in an abnormal heat wave, for a prolonged period of time. By the time he had got out of it, his buds had shriveled up, and his growth was permanently stunted. He still shows the aggression and hunting instincts of an adult of his kind, despite, or in fact because of, that past, going after smaller prey, but being as successful as any vine dragon.