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.

The captain of the messenger pygmies, Jiri is quite a work-a-holic. Managing and maintaining order to ensure that the pygmies carry out their respective duties falls entirely on him, and when they are called to assembly Jiri is the one who is responsible for gathering them up. He himself rarely has an opportunity to leave his "office", which is really just a re-purposed tower, overflowing with boxes of letters and scrolls and hiding holes where the messenger pygmies like to rest in between deliveries.

Jiri often wishes he had more time to enjoy himself, and so he frequently sneaks out at night, though where he goes nobody knows.