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.

Due to a nutritional deficiency he's dealt with since birth, Clearfang's teeth are not very strong and instead of a pearly white they look as if they're formed from translucent crystal. This makes it hard for him to eat at times, and as a result he's a rather small and frail specimen of his breed. However he doesn't let that stop him from ensuring that no other dragon has to suffer as he does. He studied with his cave's White dragons for a time, and now they send patients with dental issues to him. Here his size is an advantage because it makes it easier to reach in and extract, say, a damaged tooth from the back of a Plated Colossus' jaws and then leap out of the way. He also has started a program where he examines the teeth of the growing hatchlings to check for any problems, and if the young ones behave and don't bite they are rewarded with a treat or small trinket. Sometimes on a particularly difficult case he has a flock of Pygmy assistants, known as "Tooth Fairies", to help out.