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.

Malapati lives alone in a stony den in his Clan's forests. He speaks with an unrecognizable accent and his homeland of origin is unknown, though some think he came from the same place as an equally mysterious foreigner named Zao'qe, who arrived at the Clan not long before Malapati.

He can be rather rude and asocial, preferring to keep to himself in a small rocky keep that he haphazardly put together himself. He has an interest in scrolls and bits of knowledge, accumulating a small collection for himself of which he is fiercely protective. The most talkative he'll ever be is when chatting with someone about his literature.