....We will not talk about the...The rage and hate that is AL: ED.
That game completely destroyed everything good about the AL series just for some sad cameos.
Dragon Seeds was a build your dragon and fight in arena tournaments to make it to the top and then when you did, defend your title.
You start out as a nobody and get to choose a dragon to "clone", then get to choose keywords in order to sort of "guide" your dragon towards a particular build. It wasn't written in stone what you'd get, but it would give you an idea.
Once your baby dragon was ready to be picked up, you start either right into the tournament's or (if you had the money), invest in some training.
Either or, if your dragon died in any battle it was gone for good. You'd have to start from scratch.
There were also different types besides the basic Western dragon. Suarian (Western, non winged), Winged, Beatle, Wasp, Curse (unlockable), and Spirit (unlockable).
Besides these types, each one had a A and B type of Mutant and Super evolution that each race of dragon had a chance of becoming during some of their adult evolutions in their lifetime.
Besides the arena, lab, training center, and your homebase, their was the weapons shop, a shady black market shop you could get straight up stat-inscreasing items and some of the best equipment, a underground gambling fight ring, and the forest to release your elderly dragons.
This forest also had the ability to grant you special dragon's with new races and appearances if you had very specific PS1 game save files with very specific either character names of file names.
Unfortunately I never got to see those as I never got a hold of those particular games way back when.
...I played that game so much, it was crazy.