Yeah, the use of beast and beasthood is pretty telling. At least he was interested because Faris is a beast who can speak?

"We'd be human no longer. We would be a transcendent new race fit to travel time, space, all planes that are open to the Great Ones. Able to shape the Dreams and Nightmares as they do. And that still isn't the end! There is always more to strive towards. Even the Great Ones ache to become as Formless Oedon himself. A being so high above us that he exists only as voice and will.

"The notion makes me shiver with eagerness. Doesn't it you?"