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.

Pale Duchess has, since her hatching, possessed a strange air that could only be called 'regal.' While she doesn't outright call them her subjects, she treats the other dragons in the cave as if they are somehow of lower birth than she. Subtly, and not with any particular ill will; just a patronizing tone here, an aloof nod there, a long-suffering glance to the heavens at the folly of another. Subsequently, many dragons in the cave feel uncomfortable around her. She doesn't seem to be at all perturbed by this; in fact, she enjoys her solitude to an odd degree. Her original name, Pale Shrieker, simply didn't stick, and to this day she is referred to in whispers as the Pale Duchess.