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Mr Jacobs, I have one particular enquiry.

You mentioned you want to avoid the implications of having a dark-skinned people worshipping demons, but it appears the setting
will still retain the idea of certain light-skinned peoples being mostly devil worshippers (Cheliax) or fanatical and evil mutilation enthusiasts (Nidal). Doesn't that bring up the same undertones?

I wouldn't say Cthulhu and gang are chaotic, necessarily. We are merely not able to understand them or their actions at all. For all we know, they could be protecting the cosmos from annihilation.

Didn't Lovecraft emphasized that the Cthulhu-milieu were all about primal urges unbound by civilization, and that human laws were insignificant based on the scale of this "cosmic" wildness?

In the broadest of terms, chaos starts when an individual puts precedence on their personal desires ahead of any established customs, rules or laws, and a chaotic society truly develops when it becomes accepted that such desires should dominate. Of course, chaos is still influenced by morality, hence a chaotic good society would accept the desire to live one's life free of rules unless that behaviour negatively affects others.