Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a strong odor of turpentine, and your hand burns when you touch it.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Luminous Turpentine's curious heritage resulted in a condition that keeps her as small as a hatchling, though she is indeed full grown. Since one parent was a Lumina, and the other was a Turpentine, Lumi's orange spots gleam, even when she is not covered in her turpentine-scented oil.