Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a pink cloud that follows it everywhere. You seem to be having more difficulty concentrating since it arrived.

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.

Something is wrong with this dragon. When he hatched, everyone felt vaguely apprehensive around him, and it just got worse and worse; instead of daydreams, he unintentionally sent people and animals an overwhelming sense of dread. So one day he decided to stop growing, hoping to stop his influence on others from getting stronger that way. It worked, and he learned to control his power somewhat, although the only dragon who is completely unaffected is a "freak" like him—a black hatchling who hatched in the rarer alt form and then stopped growing.