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.

Nenaka considers herself special as she is the largest pygmy dragon that she knows. Very stuck-up and snobbish, Nenaka takes her time every day to look down on all of her family and friends. Her friends, sick of having to deal with Nenaka and her superiority complex, planned to take her down a notch. Since Nenaka had never seen a dragon besides a pygmy before, they planned on showing her a full-grown ferocious red, which had amiably agreed to help the friends out. One day, while Nenaka was washing in the river, the brutish red soared down from the sky, shook the ground with his landing, roaring and screeching all the while. Nenaka took off running, of course, straight to her friends. The friends told her to deal with it, as it was just a little baby red. Incredibly frightened, Nenaka now refuses to leave her burrow safe under the ground. She's been there for fifty years now.