[@PKMNB0Y] I'm not married to the idea but I figured I might as well offer up a chance for compromise. Because Tiamat is dead in her own mythos, perhaps the contract is with the "echo" or "memory" of Tiamat? Something like a god being unable to completely die unless they vanish from human memory? As a result of this, perhaps Tiamat is far less powerful than you would expect a god of her scale to be, but at the same time she has much less awareness/agency than a normal contract. The most difficult thing about contracting "dead gods" being actually communing with them. What do you think?