Pumpkin Dragons are a very small breed, named after their affinity for pumpkins. They are always found living inside hollowed-out pumpkins, and are only seen during the harvest season. Young children often hollow out and decorate their pumpkins in the hope that a Pumpkin Dragon will make it his or her home.

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.

For weeks pretty much everything the cave mistress cooked tasted of pumpkin. No matter what dish she cooked or how well she scrubbed the pans, everything turned out tasting of pumpkin.

It was Ambrose the Soft that spied the reason. Pumpkin Pieces, one of the younger Pumpkin dragons, had been sneaking into the kitchen and adding copious amounts of pumpkin to every dish she could while the cave mistress' back was turned, under the assumption that you could never have enough pumpkin.

Not only was Pumpkin Pieces banned from the kitchen, but banished to the garden for the next month, leaving her to bail water out of her pumpkin whenever it rained.