The dragon-blooded is a person who possesses the Power of the Dragons, despite not being one.

Dragons have an innate way to communicate with one another through long distances, this way is called "Paths" and this mesh of Paths forms a cloud that can be used to store and retrieve data.

The dragon-blooded is a part of this network allowing them to store information of their past lives inside of it. Skills, lexical knowledge and even genetic code.

Upon the expiration of the current holder, their body becomes a holy corpse that releases airborne particles. Sapient non-dragon beings that come into contact with the particles become candidates for the dragon-blooded to be reborn into.

A big downside (from a certain point of view) is that the chosen candidate's personality undergoes drastic changes as it parses through hundreds of years worth of memories. Much like with the Will of the First King from AoT, the new dragon-blooded becomes complacent with the will of its predecessors.

A dragon-blooded's body undergoes changes as well, rooting out errors and turning it into something that's capable of combat by swapping parts of the genetic code. Occasionally, the natural lifespan is extended so that a person's time as a dragon-blooded is at least 13 years.

There can be only one dragon-blooded at any times, however, the holy corpses and the candidates are still kept as a safety measure.

In paper the dragon-blooded is supposed to be the strongest (in terms of combat prowess) person in the ~~universe~~ world, however, **I'm not sure. How much they could do by themselves?**

**I'm going to limit this to combat, more precisely trial by combat and the chances of survival for a particular holder in a regular pitched battle (this time not Agincourt, that'd be too easy)**

Note about how this thing works: Time and patience, also, artificially induced coma while sleeping that allows the memories to sync up with the cloud. There's also work that has to be done with a person's memories, though that's handled by the cloud in the background.