Ok, after waiting on a GM ticket for like 2.5 hours, this is the response I got...In short, they *did* acknowledge this as a known bug:
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(You can click on the image for a larger font-sized quick cut-and-paste job for readability.)
Please excuse my confusion in there, I mentioned that I thought this dragon was Rend, but I meant to say that I thought this dragon was Gyth. noobiness FTL!

...And please forgive the silly cursor smack in the middle of all that. :-\