Xyveris would laugh softly.  "Humans," it said simply.  "Humans started it, of course.  You breed much faster than our kind tend to.  Rarely do we have the ability to produce multiple offspring.  And our kind tend to work together only rarely.  Technology is also very powerful."<br/><br/>Xyveris would stroke its tentacle lightly along her stomach, petting where the child was moving about.  "It wants out.  Not a surprise.  Anyway, technology, reason, order, those things changed.  Christianity as well.  The belief in Christ spread and took away many worshipers of the old ways.  Many of the supernatural kind needed that worship for power.  But as for dragons...they were extremely elemental beings.  Tied to the earth, the water, air, fire.  Things of that nature.  So many decided their time was up and willed themselves to join with the world."