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.

Living close to a human settlement far off to the south on a small island where he's the only dragon so far. His wide his long, lonely shrieks calling for others of his kind as well as his eerie looks have earned this dragon the dubious honour of being dubbed 'The Pale Lord'.

Human mothers in the settlement first used him as a boogeyman to frighten misbehaving children. But children grow up and only a few generations later the human residents of the island believe that this dragon will be the one to one day come for them and accompany their souls to the afterlife.