[Original Story Concept] Thy Kingdom Come

[Acyl]

CattyNebulart:

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Edit: related to that was land ownership redistrubuted and how did people deal with that? (in the ourtroom:"Hey dude this is my piece of land." "Not anymore the godslayer gave it to me." Judge: "...." )

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As I mentioned in the other post, there was some physical relocation of people involved in the change. A lot of folks went to bed on farms out in the country, and found themselves in apartments the next day, as it were.
...aaannnd, jeez, I hadn't considered land ownership kerfluffles. That's brilliant. Yes, there WOULD be problems like that. Bwah hah hah. Poor legal system...
Bob:

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Is Deon's city the best city? Does the uplift have a gradient centered on where he was when he did it? Or is it evenly distributed (loosely speaking)?

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Uh. There's something of a gradient, yes, but it doesn't begin from where he was when he made the change. Actually, think of the world as a white paper with a bunch of diluted ink droplets on it. Each ink dot, that's a city or major feature of some kind (ie, oil pipeline, etc). The area of stained paper around it, that's the effect radius, and it decreases as it moves outward.
So...

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How far from Deon's city (or cities) do you have to go to find abject poverty, either original flavor or imposed by the new world order?

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Not very far. I just haven't decided how far. That's a particularly evocative image, by the way, the one about Mazatlan Mexico.

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What about the secret societies, hidden cults, and other mysterious movers and shakers that are behind the scenes? Did they change with the obvious powers, or are they still the way they were before the change?

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Most of them have been destroyed. In my last post, I mentioned how the Church of Senica has been split by the changes. The thing is, as this big religious-political entity devoted to the most powerful Goddess... they had a lot of shadow elements as well, and those are equally divided. Some remain, but...
More importantly, though?
There's a lot of new 'shadow elements' dating from the change, as remnants of old power groups go underground. I've mentioned Jager a few times. He was a Paladin-type figure, a champion of Valin, one of the Gods of Order. With the world shattered (from his point of view)...Jager and his knights, some other loyalists, have pretty much gone underground. They're trying to fight the good fight. Against the madness that has struck the world.
Raksis, the surviving Chaos God, has built up a new mortal power base. He's adopted a humanoid guise (he looks like a dark-elf), and is now the President and CEO of a large multi-national corporation with headquarters in one of the former orc and goblin territories. I haven't named the company, but I do know it has a dragon on the logo. Gotta keep your motif, right? I mean, he's been the Dragon God for so long, it's not like he's gonna give it up. Not entirely.
Besides, sticking a dragon on the company crest, that's funny. Raksis likes his little jokes.

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How much of the change depends on Deon having been aware that something existed and needed change? It sounds like the less conscious of something he is/was, the less it changed -- what secrets hidden from him didn't change at all?

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Yes, that's an important point. Mainly what's going on with Raksis and Zastra. As I've noted, they both have their own agendas...and Zastra is arguably a greater threat to Deon than Raksis is.

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Are there political/social movements who want the world changed back? ... Who is looking for the Godslayer so they can cozy up to him and find a way to make him change things again, only to their specifications?

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I've touched on this in the last post, and some in this. Yes, such movements exist. Some of the clashes are violent. Notably, Jager and the Knights of Valin are operating almost like a terrorist organisation by this point, with appropriate acts of violence ... Jager's getting desperate, but he really does believe he's doing the right thing.
Jager is supposed to be an antagonist who has a genuine grievance with Deon. The fact is, the worldshift isn't an entirely good thing. Sure, it's improved standards of living, medical care, infant mortality, education... but there's a lot of bad things too, as a result. Then there's the fact that Deon changed the world like this...basically out of selfishness.
As for the latter, yes, as well. This isn't what Zastra's doing, mind you. She isn't simply trying to play nice with Deon for her own ends. She's got...somewhat bigger plans. But then, she's a special case. Most people wouldn't know how to find Deon in the first place...
-- Acyl