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I used The Palace of Plenty (Dungeon #130), changing the setting from Japanese to Aztec.
The original backstory, where a great spirit turns apes into civilized and good beings threw a wrench into my player's view of Demogorgon as evil, something I don't mind one bit. Demon lords are after all chaotic. Giving apes sentience and civilization, only to ruin their descendants hundreds of years later, seems quite demonic.
I've had thoughts of the rumors about it being just that, and that in fact there is a kind of time wheel going on there, with the olman princes really thinking that they are still in their present time, about to wage a final battle against the Savage Tide. It could also be another means to deal with circumstances if the pcs fail in some area.
My thoughts on this so far include an elite ruling caste of "superior" Olmani, who isolated themselves after divining Thanaclan's fate. Though they regard themselves as "The Princes of Thanaclan", they are little more than despotic tyrants with mighty arcane power who have fled their land in its time of need, to preserve themselves in a type of temporal stasis until they can return to reclaim their empire.
Should my PCs venture their, I hope to leave some idea that they are the sort of "overlords" of the Olman, and that their dominating attitude and power would only prove to create yet another threat to the future if Farshore and the Isle of Dread.