Darius Darrenbar wrote:
I kinda figured that the majority of Unity's faithful would consist mostly of members of the Technic League deployed outside of Numeria for whatever reason.
You're certainly free to tweak the story, but as written, I don't think the Technic League would ever willingly submit to Unity. If you read Palace of Fallen Stars and The Divinity Drive closely, it's clear that the vast majority of the League have no idea that Unity even exists. Furthermore, I believe it's stated in Palace of Fallen Stars that, if it became known that Ozmyn Zaidow was a pawn of an artificial intelligence, the rest of his organization would turn on him in an instant.
Remember: the Technic League is all about mastering technology, not the other way around.
There are exceptions. Ozymn of course, as well as the were-dinosaur Geetan Prosser. Still though, these are outliers.
Darius Darrenbar wrote:
Likewise androids are another logical choice from a technological standpoint since it could always be justified with either AI broadcasting a signal and tuning into the right frequency of "the chosen few." Actually that idea would work pretty well for an android oracle with the haunted or tongues curse or possessed oracle archetype.
From there it's just a matter of faith spreading around normally.
This makes much more sense to me than the Technic League. After all, Unity really is The Creator of most modern androids. It makes sense that they'd view him with reverence.
Based on the Continuing the Campaign article in The Divinity Drive though, I don't know if Unity's faith can ever spread "normally." No specific rules are given, but it seems to me that faith in Unity is more like a computer virus than proper supplication. Unity broadcasts his mind-bug into a future priest, who then somehow transmits that same bug to whomever he or she can. To quote: "Those who succumb aren’t true worshipers of the Iron God, though they certainly act the part in
helping to further spread its influence."
I think Unity is so dangerous because he isn't human, or alive, or emotional. He can't comprehend things like faith, reverence, or genuine worship. To him a worshiper is a slave that does his will; anything less than total subservience to his every whim would be treated as a mistake in need of correcting. Not even lawful evil gods like Asmodeus or Zon-Kuthon are this obsessive about micro-managing their faithful.
On the other hand you have Hellion, a chaotic evil godling who clearly has much different priorities than Unity. Hellion has the madness domain, so right off the bat he's obviously not all there. At the same time though, he seems much more like a proper god, because his followers come to him out of respect. Or because they want something from him. Or they fear him. In other words, pretty standard reasons to pray at the altar of a chaotic evil god.
