Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Except for the occasional flicker of movement, it remains inanimate.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Koro Ryouga is of a rare bloodline, a stone dragon born of a Gold dragon. She has many siblings scattered around the world, and is one of the two hatchlings born from Isilranth to remain in the cave.