Have I mentioned that I have a bunch of extraneous planning/worldbuilding for these bizarre gods from outside of the Chronaverse? 

This is Tiamat, also known as TUMUT or The Fugue. While she looks draconic, she is actually not associated with what are known as the "true" Elysian dragons, who are actually descended from Ophaboros. Instead, Tiamat is a vaguely draconic spirit outside of the dimensional ring (all gods exist essentially *outside* of the Chrona Multiverse, even though they are still complicit in its creation and operation). Few ever stare upon her face, as she is perpetually shrouded in mist so thick her outline is barely visible. The mist is made of all the memories that have ever been forgotten by anyone in the entire multiverse. To walk through it is to take in so much information that it will wipe your mind clean of all information. Still, her powers are so great that many misguided souls wish to make deals with her, which I will get to laaaaaater. Other design elements: she's blind. Yes, her jaw can unhinge. Furthermore, her mouth is blistered from her own smoke, which is coldest at its source (her body).

This is Verhamera. I haven't drawn her in years, so this is a fairly cursory redesign, but I'd say it's fairly accurate. If anything there would be *more* tails but I digress. Verhamera's six horns are said to associate her with antiphim (Enmity and a few others. I can describe them in a later chapter, they're highly dangerous anomalies in the multiverse) but best anyone can tell she's a fairly minor creation god. Unlike many Chronaverse gods, she doesn't seem to have any aspect of creation she controls, and is instead what is known as a provincial deity--she resides as the major holy figure of a single dimension, and is not involved in the affairs of any others. Her pelt is somewhere between aqua and the color of a nebula, with color rippling out across her fur as she moves,  and yes, she does have a gaping wound across her chest. This is from where she tore out her own heart to fashion Aislyn, her seraph.

A????? (localized as ARWENA) is chaos incarnate. In fact, she is just under pure chaos itself--form itself requires some degree of order, so she must take on the energy of her rival in order to reason and appear to others. ARWENA and her mortal enemy, DUNCAN, have been playing a game for aeons across the cosmos. Both seek the total eradication of life, but ARWENA seeks a world without order at the molecular level, where everything is combined into a primordial soup of erratic energy, and DUNCAN seeks a world of perfect order where no energy exists and nothing moves. Between the two of them is essentially the Chronaverse as we know it, as they balance each other out so perfectly that life is able to exist. Similar to how every being in the Chronaverse has a "signature" denoting their affinity for each of the nine elements or virtues (this is how auspexes work--beings with the same signature are connected across worlds), every being and every universe has a unique chaos/order signature. It is always an irrational number so close to fifty that you'd probably be down fifty-something .9s or .0s util you hit that first other number. Still, slight fluctuations cause major damage to *anyone*. Highly ordered beings often behave in ways we would perceive as odd or dangerous, as do highly chaotic ones. For example, Orca and Adaline are unreasonably high chaotic values (though most of the Amalgams, with the exception of Red, all have high chaotic values anyways). I don't know who to name for order off the top of my head, but I'd say Avery might be minor order if she isn't essentially right on the line. Ech.

Another provincial deity. Genny Chirou's mother, eloquently named MOTHER, is probably somehow related with the light Virtue, but I know nothing about her. She also appears as an infinite collection of wings and hands, grasping outwards, but this is her more... stable form.

I really can't draw DUNCAN ha ha

He's actually super old, I've had him as a character for years but I never got what he was until recently and then I started working with him again. He's never coming up in a book but he and ARWENA are at least partially responsible for most of the earth worlds with magic being terrible places where people get continuously and perpetually screwed by the system. Think of them like active battlegrounds. Yeah.

Anyways! Before I go! Deals!

Making deals with gods is not a well-known practice, in fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows about it, but those who want to make them have a way of finding out about them. Many gods will contact you first and ruin your life whether or not you asked for their assistance (though you likely did in a cosmic sense), but those who are committed to the idea can also bring gods upon themselves. To summon a god usually entails going to them instead of the other way around, and the rituals for summoning them are obscure. What you need to do is essentially create an event for which the universe has no solution or outcome and glitch outside of reality. This usually involves creating situations in which paradoxical events or backwards time travel are forced to occur, and require years of preparation and artifacts from several worlds. Most if not all rituals also involve self-mutilation of some kind, as you have to be willing to give everything up for that audience with a deity. 

As for the results? Gods are not allowed to place any more into the multiverse than they take out, as a general rule, so you're never going to get exactly what you're looking for. One notable instance of a deal made with a god was that made between one of the earliest-occurring water Virtues and Tiamat. A girl of extraordinary magical prestige managed to find an audience with Tiamat and asked for the location of her soulmate. Tiamat gave her all the memories of all versions of the water Virtue line in any and all possible universes, then wiped them all from her mind. This left an imprint on her and her spirit, similar to the way sand is stirred by water, but this small change was equivalent to the loss of her memory and thus did not break the gods' agreement.  Fortunately, the vague imprint did eventually lead her to find her soulmate, though she did not remember the woman nor why she had been looking for her. However, Tiamat may have had alternative motives in this deal, as this action had repercussions across the entire multiverse-- ever since, all water Virtues have had an uncanny knack for finding their soulmates.