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.

Chanuah is extremely paranoid, a hypochondriac, and at best, highly strung. Her neuroticism either confuses or amuses the better-natured dragons of the Ring. Most of them are annoyed by her. A few, like Jerago, simply ignore her. One of her habits is criticizing everything—from how their clan is called the Ring to how Epago can float—and has elicited some violence from Zekina, Phoenae, and Brieka. She is capable of being horribly snide at times, and the victim of her malice has most often been Geume.