I've discovered the reason for the increase in the number of Dragonbound.

After returning from several deaths at the hands of Elyos, Divine Rasputinerk is being hailed as the avatar of Ophidan.

I'm sure those clawless fools are just incompetent. Divine Rasputinerk shouldn't be any trouble.

Player: Accept.

Immortal or not, what self-respecting Balaur diety would choose a Shugo as their avatar?

But the Dragonbound believe it, and so Rasputinerk has to be stopped.

Player: "He's dead. I think."

Thank-- wait, you think? Hmm... If he returns, we'll have to try a more foolproof method.

Perhaps we could poison him and then get some archers to kill him and throw him in the lake....