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.

Almost White Snow in Dawn, or Snowdawn, is a gentle dragon. When she first came to the Tribe of the Dragons' Claws as a lost hatchling, she was thought to be a white dragon. But eventually another dragon realized that she was not perfectly white and could not use magic very well. Snowdawn in a great egg-mother to the eggs and hatchlings, and enjoys telling the younger dragons stories.