Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a number of fleshy growths on its head and back.

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.

This young hatchling has always had a peculiar interest in death. He is hostile towards other dragons and sometimes badly wounds them. He was frozen as a hatchling, to prevent him killing anyone when older.