While this saved little Dem's life, this severe early trauma had a number of effects on him, first and foremost, and most obvious, being that it has seriously stunted his growth. While his clutch-mates both look to be in their late 'teens' or 'early twenties' in their drow forms, he seems no more than a child of perhaps the equivalent of a human at eight or ten; in dragon forms Aurel and Azure are both well over twenty feet, Dem is just short of fifteen, barely larger than the baby younger clutch. Another effect it had, although he keeps it very quiet, is that this early exposure to large amounts of magical energy have left him with an extreme aptitude for such.
Quiet and withdrawn for his entire life, he was hurt much less than his clutch-mates when their adoptive sire Shade left. Still, it was enough to make the already withdrawn young man pull away still further from others. He will very seldom talk to others unless spoken to first, and even then rarely says much, though he is always polite with what he does say. It is much more his style to sit silently off to the side and watch; since hatching he has always watched those around him, learning at a swift rate because of it.