Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its skin is smooth and doesn’t seem to have any color to it.

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.

Although Aski enjoys playing and gliding with the other frozen hatchlings, he always preferred the cool shade of the cave to the outdoors and grew up somewhat shy. The freezing spell normally cast only after a young dragon's wings grow in was instead cast on him very soon after hatching and as a result he took longer to develop than other hatchlings in the cave. For some time the guardian dragons who watch over the young worried that he may remain wingless forever. His wings did eventually grow in quite nicely, but he never could shake off his old nickname of "Wingless."