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.

Gold Tears is the littlest of the dragons in the whole cave. He's a tough little guy though, and usually manages to get good morsels of meat, since he can never eat the whole of it, being so little compared to the other dragon's prey animals. Sir Mint Tea (who's actually a girl) came across him in a corner when one of the newest recruits to the cave had shoved and pushed him to and with his head bowed was unknowingly crying. When Mint tried to wipe the tears away she found that they weren't gold because of his scales, they were actually gold in color. The little pygmy was crying out his pigment! When Mint informed NeedleStone of this, he immediately carved out a little cave at the front, just for Gold Tears so he could watch the sun rise and make his scales shine, and eat in peace, no matter who decided to be a bully.