Dragon Heir

The Dragon Heir was a title given to a human selected by one of the elemental dragons once a century to go to one of the Elemental Realms and learn the ways of the dragon.

History
Following the near extinction of dragons in the Dragon War, Phoenicious, along with his comrades Terro, Gust, and Aquinta, decided that every century they would bring a human to one of the Elemental Realms that they had created originally to protect themselves from human hostility. They would teach this human about the war, and about dragons, and eventually would grant the human a supernatural ability, usually a type of kinesis. The purpose of this arrangement was to reestablish the alliance humans and dragons had had before the war, and to provide someone to protect the earth in the absence of dragons. When superhumans started being born in the seventeenth century due to the development of the superhuman gene, the dragons realized there was less of a need for a dragon heir. However, they continued the tradition, and eventually, Draco Taller, a Dragon Heir trained by Phoenicious, would prove vital in saving the world multiple times.

Known Dragon Heirs
There are only two known Dragon Heirs, although there have been eight in total, since the beginning of the tradition in the fourteenth century. Assuming that the assigned dragon is cyclical, than each dragon would have trained two heirs each.

The seventh Dragon Heir was Edmund Cooper, who lived in Waterstone, and was taken by Gust to learn aerokinesis in the Wind Realm in 1960. Upon returning to Waterstone, Edmund tragically died fighting in the Battle of Waterstone. His brother, Percy, who possessed the ability to prophesy, predicted that his own grandson, Draco Taller, would be the eighth dragon heir.

Percy later informed his three children that one of them would have a son who would become the Heir. Sally, Draco's mother, along with her husband Bernard, met with Phoenicious once it was clear that Draco was the one. However, throughout Draco's childhood, he was never made aware of his fate.

It was planned for Draco to enter the Fire Realm on his 18th birthday, but the death of Draco's parents at the hands of TEA agents forced Phoenicious to bring him to the Fire Realm 8 years early to save his life.

Following the death of Phoenicious and the migration of the remaining three dragons to Tikractus 9, the title of Dragon Heir was abolished.