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.

Kumquat is a very nosy pygmy, always sticking her snoot in other peoples' business. Just like a kumquat, she can look sweet and friendly on the outside but is sour and a bad seed on the inside.

Just like many other dragons in her cave, she shares a large "hollow".

She likes to (sarcastically) compliment her den-mates, then scoot away and say something very rude about them but purposely close enough to another dragon so they could catch her unfriendly telepathic remarks.

She's gotten herself into bad situations many times due to her trash-talk, but her tiny frame allows her to slip though cracks with ease to escape her furious pursuer, just to spit at their face and slip away, chattering in the manner of a high-pitched laugh.

She also describes certain dragons herself, and these are sometimes included in other dragons' descriptions.