Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It occasionally shoots small puffs of smoke from its nose, like it’s trying to breathe fire.

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.

FerociousBurning is a Red Dragon hatchling who is a bit of a bully. He is large for his species, taller than most other hatchlings of his type. FerociousBurning likes to throw his weight around. He picks on the shy hatchlings more, because they rarely have friends around to stand up for them.