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.

Ukuss never was satisfied by getting scraps from bigger dragons and goes hunting whenever he can. It isn't hard for him to find enough food for himself. Other Pygmy dragons don't understand why Ukuss so hyper. Food is everywhere when there are big dragons; it's almost too easy to get food. But Ukuss doesn't like to eat scraps and rather eats food he hunts himself and doesn't want to be a dragon who lives only on others. That's why he doesn't even give other dragons scraps that normally accrue from his hunts. He tells them that they have to hunt for themselves and they just laugh and go find scraps somewhere else. Ukuss doesn't get if this is laziness or just the way they want to live their life—always in the shadows, depending on bigger ones.