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.

Her name is porphyrianna. She's believed to be the twin sister of porphyria. She was a very sickly hatchling and it was in doubt if she would live to adulthood. A specialist dragon medic from outside the clan was consulted on the cases of both porphyrianna and her brother porphyria, and it was discovered they both had porphyria. Successfully treated, porphyrianna and her brother are now healthy but they have to be continually watched over to be sure an episodic recurrence of their porphyria symptoms do not return. Thus porphyrianna and porphyria both got their names from their inherited illness both as a perpetual reminder to their human to watch over them to be sure they don't get sick again and also as a proud reminder that they are both survivors of the dreaded inherited disease.