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.

For a long time Val stood in the shadow of her two brothers, but although she might lack their sheer shing brilliance at a first glance, she is by no means any less intelligent. Val's fire is just warmer, tamer—the comfy warmth of a hearthfire instead of the blazing heat of a forest fire.

Val observes dragons and humans alike and puts their quarrels and struggles into historical context, writing brilliant papers under a different pseudonym for each species. She as earned much respect, but no human has any idea that she is in fact a dragon, and no dragon has any idea that she writes for the hairless mammals as well.