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.

CB Tay is a reclusive and quiet albino dragon. He rarely ever ventures far from his home in the Caves of Twilight. Not even his master knows much about the introverted creature. His name is little more than a reference to a mysterious scroll the Prophet of Twilight found wrapped around his egg when she discovered it laying abandoned on the side of a road. Occasionally other dragons are sent to check in on him, and they always return to inform their human caretaker that he still lives. No one knows where he obtains the food to sustain himself, as no one ever sees him go out to hunt.

While he is reclusive, he is not unintelligent. The Prophet suspects that Tay has discovered hidden passageways through the Caves of Twilight. Knowing that the albino wishes to keep himself scarce, the knowledge of such passages is allowed to remain known to he and he alone.