Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its eyes glow brightly at night, and it enjoys attacking insects and small animals.

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.

Darkling Black-Heart is the adopted hatchling of Obsidian Black-Heart and his mate. This naughty little hatchling was cursed by the Magi dragons, named Clavacus and Aketa Vile, when he was discovered going through their spell books and treasure, looting the the things he liked. The Magi dragons were going to kill him, but fortunately decided otherwise. Darkling has lost the urge to steal things and is now very well behaved.