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.

Always the mischievous little pygmy, Gabriel was quite a handful for the Scroll Master when he was a hatchling. But he enjoyed being playful as much as he enjoyed getting into trouble, especially when his caretaker was writing on the scroll. Normally, he would sneak up and try to spook the Scroll Master, or run off with his sandwich or some berries; but one day he decided to try something different. He tried playing tug-of-war with the scroll, earning himself a mouthful of parchment....torn from the Master's scroll. However, the consequences of Gabriel's misdeeds often turned out for the best somehow. In this case, the Scroll Master used the torn parchment to create Origami and Scribe, the scroll's current caretakers.