Magelight Pygmy Wyverns make their homes deep under the earth, and produce a flammable, oily secretion from the tips of their tails to make light. The substance is long-burning, and brooding mothers douse their eggs in the oil while they incubate. Hatchlings’ tails subsequently catch fire at birth after coming into contact with their burning shells. Magelights are useful to human miners, as they are docile and easily trained to alert to the presence of methane damps, caved sections of tunnel, and proximity of nearby dragons to ensure the safety of crews.

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 little Magelight, small though he is, seems to have the appetite of a dragon many times his size. He's well known for sneaking into his owner's pantry and eating his fill, but an unfortunate incident has caused his owner to further beef up the "dragon-proofing" in her home. On one particular night, after his owner and many of the dragons had gone to bed, Fieryflash crawled in through his usual hole in the wall and set upon the first edible thing he found, which happened to be a container of preserved beans, flavored with sugar and other spices. Finding that he thoroughly enjoyed this new food, he rooted around her stores until he had found and consumed her entire supply. Now, most everyone knows the result of consuming a large amount of "the musical fruit", but combine that with having a flame on the end of one's tail and it should be no surprise that nearly all of his cavemates were awoken soon after by the cries of their owner discovering that part of her house was aflame.