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.

While all pygmy dragons are good at knowing where large dragons are, some pygmy dragons are good at knowing where large dragons are not. This social instinct and desire to be around their larger brethren gives the pygmy the knowledge of where to go and where to avoid. Opuscule Dracunculus has honed her ability to know where dragons are not, and has teamed herself up with vampire dragons. She is good at finding abandoned dragon nests where there are still eggs present, allowing the vampire a chance to change an egg undisturbed, as opposed to stealing eggs to bite from an active nesting site. The vampire's bite success goes up when given time to focus, and in return Opuscule knows that whether success or fail, the vampire will always feed her since she will find another nest later. Her instinct rarely fails her.