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.

Veltik has little patience for the vain or self-impressed. He drives the local luminas to distraction by threatening to get oil on their scales and has tried the same thing with tinsels, though with less success. The luminas shriek and promise terrible revenge, just as soon as they're done plucking out their scales, but the tinsels have been known to hex Veltik at inopportune moments.