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.

Agnes spends most of her time inside her cave, working on developing telepathic devices that will help better the communication between humans and dragons. Her father taught her code languages at a young age and she remembers holding many intellectual conversations with him at dinner. When she was reaped, Agnes had told her father, who first came up with the idea to bring telepathy to humans, that when she wins she will spend all of her winnings on seeing his inventions come to fruition. Agnes states she plans to win the games by echo-radiation.