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.

This tiny dragon remembers little of the earliest parts of his life, piecing it together as an adult. He remembers pushing away eggshell the texture of rotten wood, and he remembers the dark olive of his caretaker's wing as she scooped him from the ground. She dripped water carefully from a claw to his lips, crushed berries into a soft mush he could bear to eat, and she kept him alive, her constant travel rocking him to fevered sleep.

The Little Neglected was sickly and weak for most of his hatchlinghood, but one day, he was finally able to unfurl his wings, to walk on his own four feet and see the world around him clearly for the first time. The dragon who saved him carries with her a strange, permanently sleeping creature, and she prevents even the Little Neglected from getting too close to it. Though nonverbal, she is clear enough that she protects the sleeping being dearly.

With no better ideas, the Little Neglected travels with the Neglected One and protects the creature, too.