Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very alert, and likes to watch what you’re doing.

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.

Endomaegia is good at remembering his dreams. For example, the other night he dreamed he was overseeing a tournament where most of the dragons were using powerful spells that had no relation to their natural element and that in reality they would be incapable of using, such as an ember using water spells and a dracopromorphic potato hurling thunderbolts. Before his wings grew in, he had a recurring nightmare where he was trapped in a huge scientific facility filled with human-sized, flying jellyfish that were liable to explode at any moment. One day a sunsong told him that all his dreams would come true, and because sunsongs are associated with luck, he believed her. He has been terrified of the future ever since.