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Originally Posted by WingedKagouti
If you make the requirement to train dragons part of a bloodline, you end up with lots of inbreeding and/or other nations accessing the ability via political marriages or kidnapping + rape.
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I... think you may have missed the bit where OP said this was meant for 6 and 8-year-olds? That's probably just going to mean an unbroken, fairly uncomplicated line of succession, possibly with the PC's being siblings or cousins (or you can have them be distantly related to the royal family - descended perhaps from a "lost" prince or princess). You
could have a plot involved where OpFor abducts a child of the royal family and turns him/her against them, much as the titular character of
Hook attempted to do to Peter's children, with the PC's ultimately convincing the character to turn back to the side of good.
As for the dragons, that depends on what you think the kids are wanting out of the game. You could easily have a wide variety (as in HtTYD, which like WingedKagouti I've only seen the first movie of) so as to fit their characters, of course, or you could go with something more traditional. An interesting alternative would be if dragons are able to
control how they grow and what traits they acquire, and thus the dragons bonded to each rider will grow to match what said rider needs, be it a speedy sniper like Toothless or a heavy, strong tank-like dragon that breathes the more-traditional cone of flame.