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>How? They're not the ones who were being dicks on that continent.
They were complicit in it. We're told that they got extra lives for doing "pious" things, yet they were also opposed to all the Elder Gods at once, and that they were close as a race to the Drakonids.

So if we put all that together, they are a legacy of the true dragons, begging for scraps of immortality from the cruelest gods even after their extinction, until someone else was able to offer them an even better deal.