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.

Adopted by a snow forest clan, Rootlet is the little brother of Root the terrae, in the figurative and literal sense. Wherever he goes, among the first things to pop out of the mouths of minds of the dragon denizens is a remark about how small and cute he is. He does like being cute if it means the others will do him favors, though some do them because they view him as incapable at his size. For a long time, he believed he still had growing to do, since his smallness made him incompatible with all the large women in the forest and beyond -- believe him, he tried -- though after meeting a white, feathered dragon about his height who called herself a "pipipip pygmy", he realized he was a different kind of dragon entirely. Apparently, his big brother Root meant to inform him that he's a pygmy dragon but just "forgot" for many years.