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.

Tueru has found an unusual way to earn her keep.  Rather than catch rats or deliver messages, like most of the other pygmy dragons in Dragontown, she weaves wreaths.  Tueru's small size and considerable agility allow her to create some very complex wreaths, and her creations are in high demand.  Her building materials vary according to the season—flowers, twigs, and straw in spring and summer, seed pods in fall, and enough evergreen branches to leave her pleasantly pine-scented for weeks in winter.  Thanks to her hobby, Tueru has learned a lot about the local flora, in particular what it to be avoided because of its tendency to sting or cause a rash (either when she gathers it or when a customer handles a wreath).