White Dragons are pacifists and specialize in extremely strong healing magic. The only limit of this magic is that it can’t bring back the dead. They only eat plants and never kill living things.

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.

Branwyen was never accepted in her village; the leader loathed Magis and any other dragons with even a fraction of their talents, thinking magic to be evil, and Branwyen's healing abilities were far too uncanny to be a learned skill. However as the only White in the village, she was ignored. The leader's son, a sadistic brute of a dragon, had it in for her own son, a golden Tinsel she named Emryss. No one knew anything about the powers of Tinsels, not even Emryss himself, and they began to question him and his mother when magical things began to happen at his command. Emryss was arrested and Branwyen given a choice: either she could stay and her son would be put to death, or both could leave with their lives. She had found Emryss washed up on the shore as a hatchling, weak and starving. He would have died without her and she couldn't bare to leave him. They left their only home, but eventually found Hawktalon's cave where Branwyen, along with the Magi Krestomancii, is the healer.