Suggestion: Give dragons access to all biped spells.
Why? I could be wrong in my interpretation of the lore but as far as I have understood the lore I see Primal Magic as the first magic.
The all encompasing magic, like white light can be seperated by a prisma in all it's different colours. I think that Primal magic has been seperated by bipeds in it's different aspects.
Primal Magic can do it all. Although dragons were the original practisioners of magic, bipeds became adept at it, and soon surpassed the skill of dragons.
However if a dragon was properly introduced to the "Aspect" of the Primal Magic he/she uses, for instance augmentation. A dragon could become as adept as any biped trained in that aspect.
To introduce this into Istaria would certainly boost the Caster aspect of a dragon a lot.
Now to counter the complaints of biped players about how unfair this may seem as they have to level several schools to obtain the same as a dragon in his/her mere 100 levels I can propose two paths.
Proposal 1. Questing.
It seems appropriate to me to have a biped expert (NPC) introduce a dragon to the specific magic field he/she wants to familiarize itself with.
This NPC would need to give out a multitude of quests training the dragon in specific spells. These quests could also be limited in progression with time constraints.
Like make sure that a dragon has had ample time (from 1 minute to up to a week Real Time) to familiarize themselves with the specific magic.
In that way time would be a factor to slow the progression of a dragon caster become fully efficient as a biped.
Indeed a biped would probably still have to do more to get to the same level, but given enough free time will probably get there faster to a dragon. Given enough time for the development team, many quest could be introduced to make any studied aspect as time consuming and difficult as a RoP or even ARoP.
Proposal 2. Create 1 or more Dragon Caster classes
We could make some dragon caster classes, which could only be levelled after completing RoP or ARoP.
1 or more classes which allows a dragon to learn all, or in the case of multiple Dragon Caster Classes certain specific Magic aspects.
They could all have specific quests and could require training under council of an expert biped, we could even integrate Proposal 1 into this.
I think proposal 1 could be introduced in a quick and dirty way (only a few basic quests which could be time consuming like slay 500 Flame Ogres or something). (Time consumption on par with leveling an extra school)
Later on when the development team has more time, a refinement could be introduced (RPWise, the expert biped teachers have found a more meaningful, rewarding and simply better way to introduce dragons to the specific aspects of Primal Magic).
Salis