>>96326786
>Bad news is that Cthulhu himself is probably like Arete 18 and has 14 points in all the Spheres. Oops.

You're overrating Cthulhu so much.
There is nothing he's ever showed doing that a mid-level Archmaster with no Spheres / Arcana higher than 7 or 8 couldn't do. (granted, I'm way more knowledgeable about CoD's Archmasters abilities than WoD's, and I remember that they're different. WoD Mages might be weaker, I don't know).
Even the whole species of Deep Ones Cthulhu spawned are pretty cute strength-wise compared to Vampires, which is pretty much implied to have been created (or could have theoretically been created) by a "mere" Death 7 Archmaster.

>>95899827
Replace the Paradigms by Dark Ages-like Fellowship. Six would cover mostly everything:
>Technomancy (hyper-tech man-in-black, mage hacker, etc)
>Shamanism (nature spirits, voodoo, etc)
>Witchcraft (folklore dark magic, sacrifices, blood, etc)
>High Ritual (pseudo-scientific ritualism, complex diagrams and incantations, hermetic magic)
>Social Magic (wordplay, mind manipulation by esoteric cognitive science and exploiting bugs in human brains, etc)
>Eastern Magic (Qi-based magic, martial art stuff etc)

Give each Paradigm five Pillars-like disciplines that fit their lore and aesthetics.

Have Paradox works roughly like V5 Hunger dice

Give some SCP-flavor to the Technocracy, make the Traditions way less organized and well defined. No more 9 well defined organizations, make the Tradition an association of a myriad of cults, mystics, occult organizations and cabals from all over the world in a huge underground network