Pumpkin Dragons are a very small breed, named after their affinity for pumpkins. They are always found living inside hollowed-out pumpkins, and are only seen during the harvest season. Young children often hollow out and decorate their pumpkins in the hope that a Pumpkin Dragon will make it his or her home.

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.

Fairy Magrat is a very well-meaning dragoness. She often visits the pumpkins hollowed out by children in the nearby villages and tries her best to help them with their problems be they big or small.

But despite her best efforts she almost never is able to help, since all she ever does is wishing for things to get better and maybe trying a bit of her dragon magic. However the only spell she ever mastered enables her to turn small things into pumpkins and while this is a very useful spell for a pumpkin dragon it seldom helps human children with their problems (unless their problem is an insatiable hunger for pumpkin, of course).

Well at least her helpless efforts sometimes cheer the children up.