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.

Although she lacks the daring skill of Enam and the cheerful energy of Elanaka, Lantara does have one quality that her two friends seem to have in very meager to nonexistent amounts: the ability to deal with a certain amount of responsibility.  While her friends frequently shun anything that requires seriousness, Lantara faces responsibility gracefully, taking it in stride and making sure that whatever needs to get done is finished.  When Enam gets himself into trouble, as he often does, Lantara is nearly always the one to organize his rescue, helped along by Elanaka's creative ideas.

Despite her ability to deal with responsibility, Lantara is essentially a fun-loving soul and spends the majority of her time playing in the jungle trees and swamps with Elanaka and Enam until evening comes around, at which point they curl up together in a hidden hollow of an ancient saman tree and stare up at the sky, each thinking their own thoughts with the stars reflected in their smiling eyes.