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.

Lupin the Magician is a pygmy dragon. Quite strange and eccentric, she insisted on being called Lupin, even though she was a girl, and she often spends her days playing around with a peculiar stick that seems to emit sparks and beams of light every once in a while. Every month or so, she loves to entertain the dragons with "magic" shows, though the magi dragons scoff at her tricks and insist that she cannot use real magic. Also, she has a habit of taming small wolves and keeping them as pets, though nobody knows why or how she manages to do so. However, nobody complains, since the wolves normally keep her busy and stops her from annoying everyone with her extremely irritating and constant, high-pitched chattering.