I don't really think it's worth freaking out over.
If you want to RP a dragoon, you can find a good enough excuse.
If someone really uses the lorebook as an excuse to tell people they can't play dragoons then they're a lame fuck and probably not worth your time anyway.
The lorebook says they were down to 10 people in active service by the time the final battle with Nidhogg was over, it doesn't say anything about new dragoons after that or retired/inactive dragoons coming back, so really all you'd have to say (and you'd only really need to do this if you're dead-set on being an ACTIVE-SERVICE dragoon) is that your character was inactive at the time of the Dragonsong War's end and that's it.
If you want to RP a dragoon, you can find a good enough excuse.
If someone really uses the lorebook as an excuse to tell people they can't play dragoons then they're a lame fuck and probably not worth your time anyway.
The lorebook says they were down to 10 people in active service by the time the final battle with Nidhogg was over, it doesn't say anything about new dragoons after that or retired/inactive dragoons coming back, so really all you'd have to say (and you'd only really need to do this if you're dead-set on being an ACTIVE-SERVICE dragoon) is that your character was inactive at the time of the Dragonsong War's end and that's it.
roleplay?