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.

Unlucky Thirteen's horrible luck is partly because she is extremely clumsy, but also due to the fact (some say) that she was born on the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month of the thirteenth year of the thirteenth century of the thirteenth millenium.

No one is quite sure how that happened (or how there were thirteen months), but it did indeed happen. Countless dragons witnessed the day Unlucky Thirteen hatched, and watched in horror as lightning struck the tree just over her empty shell, crushing it and getting thirteen shards of shell stuck in her paw. Then, a tremendous flood came and washed away thirteen year's store of food. Finally, a horrible drought came that lasted for thirteen years. A total of thirteen disasters happened that day.

Nowadays, Unlucky Thirteen lives alone in a cave thirteen miles from the rest of the dragons.