Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It gives off a glow that lights up the cave.

Look, it’s grown frills, and the glow around it has become even brighter.

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.

McShiny is the Hercules of the cave, as he possesses great physical strength (well, for a hatchling anyway). He's a very masculine little hatchling—the gentlemen's hatchling, if you will. He likes hangin' with the boys and doing those manly things—like lifting heavy rocks and presiding over spitting contests. At the rare time that he's feeling like a bit of a softy, he deigns to take a chunk of meat to some of the female hatchlings, since they're all too dainty to get their own.