okay, mulch has been posted to the rg.
i will be picking up the eberron book this weekend, and am quite excited.
in the meantime, i think i hit upon a solution to the diety question. it probably better fits his chaotic nature to not follow any strict dogma, but rather to follow a more intuitive path to the divine. his good fortune, strength, and devotion to helping the less fortunate just comes naturally to him.
as for a relationship with the other pcs, i think he will be especially drawn to fixit, as he's naturally drawn to all things mechanical. anyone who's spent any time in diamond lake would have heard of him, as he's something of an oddity in more ways than one.