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The drives and motives of these beings is a terrifying reflection of the deepest, darkest and most unplumbed depths of the subconscious – the pure irrational archaic insanity that lurks and gnaws ravenously in the pits of the psyche, the “id” of Freud or even the “Will” of Schopenhauer. For the Other Gods, this is brought to the forefront, characterised by the allusions of them dancing madly, piping flutes and beating drums (the later two which are synonymous with the Dionysian cults of the ancient world which would use these instruments in their ecstatic communions with their god). These Other Gods of the Outer Hells are indeed stated to have a will that is to be enacted (with favours carried out by their soul and messenger Nyarlathotep), a will that would by all intents and purposes be completely nonsensical or inscrutable by anyone who is not Nyarlathotep himself, a will fuelled by strange, unknowable and unreasoning desires, “possessed of singular hungers and thirsts” as Lovecraft puts it (rather archaically as well typical of his writing style: “singular” being a phrase meaning “strange, unusual and out-of-the-ordinary, very evocative of Gothic-era writers like Poe).
