Paper Dragons are not truly living creatures. They are pieces of parchment enchanted by magic, and as such, are very vulnerable to fire. However, they behave almost like dragons. The only place where their behavior differs is breeding: paper dragons cannot breed.

Merit-Thoth was given that name by the Egyptian dragons in her clan, because it means "beloved of Thoth (God of writing and husband of Seshat)." They reasoned that of course a paper dragon would be beloved by a Deity of writing. Though she is not a real dragon as such, she behaves as if she is very fond of her male counterpart, Mer-Seshat (beloved of Seshat, Goddess of writing and wife of Thoth). Whether they have any actual sentience or not is not clear—no dragon has sensed anything from them telepathically, but they behave sometimes as if they were independently intelligent. The magic used to create them came from Freyja Magiksmodir, the most potent of the magi dragons in the clan, so it is possible that their creation-spell had a bit more life to it than most, as it were.