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.

Mousewing is upset about his name. His owner thought it would be a cute name, but it's really just plain torture. All the young hatchlings go up to him at some point and ask him if he is actually a mouse, not knowing the difference between a pygmy dragon and a mouse. It drives him nuts. He has to tell around fifteen hatchlings a day that he's not a mouse and then teach them all the difference between dragons and mice. It drives him crazy.

If he ever had time to do anything other than talk about mice, get a quick snack, and sleep, he'd be quite the daredevil. He dreams of doing the things most dragons would never do: flying to the top of Crimson Island's tallest mountain, taking on a Desipis Dragon, answering Crimsonstone's questions of reality...but those are just dreams, and he's probably never going to get to try any of that until he can stop the hatchlings from asking him if he's a mouse. And that will definitely take a while.