Albino Dragons are so named because their translucent, scale-less skin lacks all pigment. Instead, to help protect their bodies from the sun, they are coated in an oily secretion that blocks the sun’s harmful rays. The call of an albino dragon is similar to a barn owl--a shriek instead of a roar.

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.

Michiko is the most self-centered, ill-mannered, and selfish dragon in her breed. She thinks that she's the most important dragon in her clan, so she forces other dragons to bring food to her instead of the elders. She wakes up late so she can have her "beauty sleep", and when she wakes up, the first thing she does is go up to the food pile, while pushing other dragons out of the way. Even if the prey was too big for her, she won't share. She will kick dirt on it so no one else can eat the prey. She acts the way she does is because of her name; Michiko means "child of beauty". However, she only managed to get to the beauty part; unfortunately, that is the appearance beauty, not inner beauty.