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.

Melanin is very afraid of the sun, almost paranoid. Her paranoia made her change to a nocturnal life, which caused her to have constant dark circles under her eyes. Being an Albino dragon, she finds it difficult to hunt at night, and thus is very thin, due to lack of food. To sleep, during the day, she hides in a big hole on the ground and covers the entrance with some rocks, to ensure that absolutely no sunlight touches her skin.