new archipelago lore: the twin realms of Tozarra and Graciana formerly had an entrenched aristocracy, of which dragons comprised a good fraction of its' noble houses. Dragon knights where the dragon was the knight and the rider was a subordinate formed an elite class of aerial cavalry.
Nowadays the nobility no longer has any formal power and warfare has changed immensely to a much more mechanized and industrialized form, but the modern Tozarran military does use dragon-rider teams as scouts and for airship boarding.
Also. there are dragon officers. dragon officers in spiffy little hats.
picturing a big dragon with a little captain's hat perching on the bow of their airship while their catfolk XO looks off at the horizon with binoculars next to them
