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Spoiler: Dragons
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Dragons are bookies and loansharks, specialising in different sections of the invading-horror market.

Seriously, where do you think their hoards come from? Their main occupation in life is accosting unsuspecting extraplanar or elder god entities that come through to the Prime Material Plane full of ambition, assured that they're going to rule the world or bring it to an end. Dragons confront these creatures one of two ways:

Metallic dragons offer high-odds bets that the world-ending horror isn't going to achieve his aims.
Chromatic dragons offer of high-interest loans of equipment or gold to invading entities, or offer mobs of trained hirelings to advance their ambitions. These hirelings are big mobs of theatrically-trained kobolds who chant "Bow to Yog-Sothoth" in at least sixteen extraplanar languages very impressively - and who are also trained to absent themselves very rapidly when the party of One Punch Man adventurers shows up to put a stop to things.

Dragons are usually smart enough to require "security" be placed on the bet or loan. After the slaughter is over, the dragon shows up to collect on the bet or loan, usually offering a generous percentage of the takings to the adventurers who take the Eldritch Horror Of the Week down.

Bahamut wears a Large white fedora with a large feather in the band when confronted. Tiamat's red dragon head talks to players, while the other four heads are simultaneously all speaking on Rings of Communication devices that look suspiciously like call centre headsets; the subject of these simultaneous conversations is invariably statistical and punctuated with a lot of "A'right, guv?".
Awesome! I also like the idea of particularly smart dragons being genre-savvy to the point where they, much like the players, are side-dealing and playing against type. A dragon that attacks villages very rapidly ends up with its head on a tavern wall.