Interesting thought - the "chaos" lands are likely going to be uplifting their own knowledge base a fair bit faster than the "order" lands, what with the internet and everything. In particular, the whole "information wants to be free" and distributed infrastructure and everything works *great* with a primarily chaotic viewpoint. Even if the Open Source movement wasn't edited in directly, knowledge of it would be, and the programmer-types in the chaos lands are likely to jump in on that with both feet. Likewise, the people who learn magic the fastest (not the safest, but the fastest) are going to be the ones who dump out everything they know on the internet, and then go dashing madly around picking up bits of what everyone else knows and integrating it through experimentation. Shamanism's usually good for that *anyway*. Sure the order lands are going to see some of that, and they're also going to see people giving classes, but not, I think, to the same degree. The ideas of "Knowledge is Power." and "Information wants to be free." are going to resonate *strongly* in the new Chaos lands, and my impression is that those are the sorts of places where Power is a Good Thing. You're going to see a fair number of Auto-Initiated Explosive Events (AIEE) but you're also going to see a lot of people who figure out strange and scary magical powers (Look, Ma! I just enchanted my shotgun to launch plasma bolts!)
I imagine that the Chief of Chiefs is going to be ruling with a relatively light hand. Not that he'll be gentle - when he does come down on something, he's going to come down *hard* - but he probably isn't going to do that much more often than he needs to to remind people that he can.
On the other hand, "Chief of Chiefs" is the sort of position that frequently rules with a lot of gentle influence and the occasional (rare) bout of horrific brutality anyway, so that works. Actually, the fact that the revolts all happened up front is probably to his benefit. By the time they start figuring out the really scary technomagical innovations, there will also probably be a fair amount of clue in the system of the "He mostly leaves us alone. If we boot him out of power, the next guy might *not* mostly leave us alone" variety.
I gotta say, I see the Orc lands settling down as the sort of place that gets random radicals of all sorts of flavors all thinking feverishly and debating loudly. Mind you, you'll get bits of that everywhere - particularly in the universities - but the Orcs would have it as a local specialty.
Does Deon hang out online? Does he visit the Mighty Magics fora? Does he give advice? Heck, is he even aware of the existence of such places?
I imagine that the Chief of Chiefs is going to be ruling with a relatively light hand. Not that he'll be gentle - when he does come down on something, he's going to come down *hard* - but he probably isn't going to do that much more often than he needs to to remind people that he can.
On the other hand, "Chief of Chiefs" is the sort of position that frequently rules with a lot of gentle influence and the occasional (rare) bout of horrific brutality anyway, so that works. Actually, the fact that the revolts all happened up front is probably to his benefit. By the time they start figuring out the really scary technomagical innovations, there will also probably be a fair amount of clue in the system of the "He mostly leaves us alone. If we boot him out of power, the next guy might *not* mostly leave us alone" variety.
I gotta say, I see the Orc lands settling down as the sort of place that gets random radicals of all sorts of flavors all thinking feverishly and debating loudly. Mind you, you'll get bits of that everywhere - particularly in the universities - but the Orcs would have it as a local specialty.
Does Deon hang out online? Does he visit the Mighty Magics fora? Does he give advice? Heck, is he even aware of the existence of such places?