When a cosmic dragon ascends, the newly created dragon form comes with an innate base understanding of how to manipulate their universe pearl. As they gain experience over time, they increase in size, with the largest ones being mountainous to the others. There have been a few exceptions though, where a cosmic dragon was already a dragon prior to ascending. In these cases, the existing dragon form seems to be simply copied over as is, without any new additional knowledge. Such dragons awaken as a much smaller size than their hatchling peers and need to learn or be taught even the basics. By the time they catch up to their peers in experience, they are usually on pace with them in scale as well.