Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Electric yellow scales shimmer brightly across its belly, and an even brighter spark adorns its tail.

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.

Thunderbeak suffered a disease similar to Victom of Loss's, in which his organs slowly deteriorated as he grew older. He was saved in time but watched as his 5 siblings slowly and painfully felt the full consequences of this disease. He became a rogue as his parents had been poached years earlier, and became known for his pecks that could not only dig an extremely deep hole in flesh but also send a nerve-destroying jolt of electricity through the sufferer's body.