- How vital were the Old Gods to the running of the world? If he'd just killed them and left it at that, would everything have collapsed?
- What kind of morons *were* the Order Gods, anyway? "Let's tell this guy he can go home when he's done, get him empowered to the point that he can kill Gods, have him actually kill the Gods of Chaos (and absorb their power?), then tell him he can't go home after all." What did they *think* would happen with a guy who Could Kill Gods, Couldn't Leave Anyway, and Felt Horribly Betrayed?
- How strong a motivator is guilt for Deon? Assume for the moment that he's Not A God by choice. It's awful hard to live a "normal" existence when you're a God. If he comes across a point where his lack of clue/attention has really screwed things up for people, is there a chance he'd miracle it fixed? Would he try to hide/deny it if he did? Would he get caught in the act? (incidentally, one branch this particular train of thought can be followed pretty quickly into a Character-based story, as his resolve to Not Be God breaks down. Not that you want that, or anything.)
- When he's pursuing his almost normal existence, does he have a job? What does he do with his day, other than eat breakfast? How firmly has he integrated himself into the local economy?
- So, Deon gets called in, gets his initial Gear And Info, heads out questing, acquires enough power to kill gods, kills all but one of the Gods of Chaos (I assume you already know why that one was spared. If you don't, you need to. Also, if he's the only one Chaos God alive, why would Deon need to ask which Chaos God it was?) and heads back. He heads back, triumphant, meets with the Order Gods... and they tell him he can't go home after all. Some time later, he's killed all of them, and remade the world. The block of time, starting just before he says "send me home" and ending with him taking his place in one of the cities, is Very Important. Questions include...
-- How did the Gods of Order deliver the news?
-- What, exactly, drove him to kill them all?
-- Was it a Grand Melee In The Throne Room deal, or did he have to hunt them down one by one?
-- Did he remake the world before or after they were all dead? Was it in the heat of the moment, or the depths of despair? What exactly was he thinking? Why did he remake the Entire World, rather than just enough (a single city, say) for him to live in?
- If he wanted to live in his original world, and had Ultimate Power, why didn't he just turn the elves into humans?
- What happened to the Dwarf nations? Our world doesn't exactly have a template for "massive numbers of people living out their lives underground". In particular, the food-creation technologies are going to be rather different.
- Are the Chaos races by nature any less moral than the Order races?
- It's worth knowing - there just aren't as many people overall in a primarily agrarian society. The land can't support them. Even if you take most of the farmers out of the fields and put them in the cities (with appropriate divinely-installed job skills), you *still* won't have terribly populous cities. In some cases the infrastructure might be strange and ineffective because he doesn't know much about how it's supposed to work, but in a lot of cases it's going to be tremendously overbuilt, because it's designed off of his perceptions of infrastructure intended to handle an order of magnitude or two more population.
- People are very good at figuring out how to stay alive and functional - and he *did* (By Fiat) give out enough of the right job skills for people to know how to fix the broken things. By now they *probably* would have ironed most of it out - though some might be in rather odd ways.
- He had this habit of teleporting people around and giving them new identities. Did he leave power structures/social class more or less intact, or were there noblewomen suddenly waking up in cramped apartments with secretarial skills? If he put a new government's worth in place without reference to the old government, that could have gotten ugly quickly.
- Did he also impart basic high-tech life skills? Do people know how to drive cars? Do they understand the dangers of credit cards? What about dangers that don't really exist so much in this world (The STDs and food-borne illnesses will be different, if nothing else.)
- Did he take the opportunity to make any improvements while he was at it? Did thieves pick up high-tech skills along with everyone else?
- What was his job originally, back in the real world (assuming he really was from the real world)? (This will give at least one place where he'd *know* how things worked, and thus one aspect of the cities that would work well. It also gives some insight into his nonmagical, nondivine skills.)
- Are/were Dark elves of the Chaos races?
- Did he put in any cultural artifacts other than "urban america"? Did he suddenly make people literate, and if so, is it all in one language, or multiple different ones? Did the world have a unified language to start with, or are there now people who can only communicate through God-given literacy?
think that's enough for now.
Edit: Wasn't quite enough. Also, formatting.
- What kind of morons *were* the Order Gods, anyway? "Let's tell this guy he can go home when he's done, get him empowered to the point that he can kill Gods, have him actually kill the Gods of Chaos (and absorb their power?), then tell him he can't go home after all." What did they *think* would happen with a guy who Could Kill Gods, Couldn't Leave Anyway, and Felt Horribly Betrayed?
- How strong a motivator is guilt for Deon? Assume for the moment that he's Not A God by choice. It's awful hard to live a "normal" existence when you're a God. If he comes across a point where his lack of clue/attention has really screwed things up for people, is there a chance he'd miracle it fixed? Would he try to hide/deny it if he did? Would he get caught in the act? (incidentally, one branch this particular train of thought can be followed pretty quickly into a Character-based story, as his resolve to Not Be God breaks down. Not that you want that, or anything.)
- When he's pursuing his almost normal existence, does he have a job? What does he do with his day, other than eat breakfast? How firmly has he integrated himself into the local economy?
- So, Deon gets called in, gets his initial Gear And Info, heads out questing, acquires enough power to kill gods, kills all but one of the Gods of Chaos (I assume you already know why that one was spared. If you don't, you need to. Also, if he's the only one Chaos God alive, why would Deon need to ask which Chaos God it was?) and heads back. He heads back, triumphant, meets with the Order Gods... and they tell him he can't go home after all. Some time later, he's killed all of them, and remade the world. The block of time, starting just before he says "send me home" and ending with him taking his place in one of the cities, is Very Important. Questions include...
-- How did the Gods of Order deliver the news?
-- What, exactly, drove him to kill them all?
-- Was it a Grand Melee In The Throne Room deal, or did he have to hunt them down one by one?
-- Did he remake the world before or after they were all dead? Was it in the heat of the moment, or the depths of despair? What exactly was he thinking? Why did he remake the Entire World, rather than just enough (a single city, say) for him to live in?
- If he wanted to live in his original world, and had Ultimate Power, why didn't he just turn the elves into humans?
- What happened to the Dwarf nations? Our world doesn't exactly have a template for "massive numbers of people living out their lives underground". In particular, the food-creation technologies are going to be rather different.
- Are the Chaos races by nature any less moral than the Order races?
- It's worth knowing - there just aren't as many people overall in a primarily agrarian society. The land can't support them. Even if you take most of the farmers out of the fields and put them in the cities (with appropriate divinely-installed job skills), you *still* won't have terribly populous cities. In some cases the infrastructure might be strange and ineffective because he doesn't know much about how it's supposed to work, but in a lot of cases it's going to be tremendously overbuilt, because it's designed off of his perceptions of infrastructure intended to handle an order of magnitude or two more population.
- People are very good at figuring out how to stay alive and functional - and he *did* (By Fiat) give out enough of the right job skills for people to know how to fix the broken things. By now they *probably* would have ironed most of it out - though some might be in rather odd ways.
- He had this habit of teleporting people around and giving them new identities. Did he leave power structures/social class more or less intact, or were there noblewomen suddenly waking up in cramped apartments with secretarial skills? If he put a new government's worth in place without reference to the old government, that could have gotten ugly quickly.
- Did he also impart basic high-tech life skills? Do people know how to drive cars? Do they understand the dangers of credit cards? What about dangers that don't really exist so much in this world (The STDs and food-borne illnesses will be different, if nothing else.)
- Did he take the opportunity to make any improvements while he was at it? Did thieves pick up high-tech skills along with everyone else?
- What was his job originally, back in the real world (assuming he really was from the real world)? (This will give at least one place where he'd *know* how things worked, and thus one aspect of the cities that would work well. It also gives some insight into his nonmagical, nondivine skills.)
- Are/were Dark elves of the Chaos races?
- Did he put in any cultural artifacts other than "urban america"? Did he suddenly make people literate, and if so, is it all in one language, or multiple different ones? Did the world have a unified language to start with, or are there now people who can only communicate through God-given literacy?
think that's enough for now.
Edit: Wasn't quite enough. Also, formatting.