Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Icicles keep forming on its body, but it doesn’t seem to be bothered by the cold.

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.

Splinter loves to make other hatchlings shiver and freeze. He thinks they are all big babies who can't even stand the tiny bit of cold that surrounds him and they deserve to be miserable. For a long time he had no friends, but he didn't really want them, anyway. He felt far too superior to spend time with all those little softies. That is until he met the Frostbite hatchling Blizzard.