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.

Tinyswipe is a messenger dragon in Feline clan. He is bright, fast, fiercely loyal to the Alpha, and loves his position in the clan. His role is to keep in communication with the border patrols for the clan's safety by carrying messages back and forth between them and the Alpha. For his service to the clan, he never has to worry about finding his own food and never has to deal with threats from other predators, like clan-less dragons (except from those within his own clan). It was Tinyswipe who warned the Alpha of a plot on her life from Paleheart and several of the other rebels, so his position among some individuals has made him less than popular as they might like to make a quick snack of him.

Tinyswipe is on the small side for a Pygmy dragon, and rather lean, even given his protection from within Feline clan. He loves life and is a rather jolly dragon, though always serious-minded.