Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its eyes glow brightly at night, and it enjoys attacking insects and small animals.

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.

Mage is one of the members of the elite Shadow Tribe.  He is the most adept magic user of the group and is therefore in charge of giving magic lessons to everybody else.  His favorite spell turns any inanimate object he wants into an equivalent mass of acorns and any animate primitive object into an equivalent mass of squirrels.  He is slowly building up a faithful army of squirrels to help aid the Tribe in any mission they undertake.