Editing Helm (section)

==History==
Helm is one of those old "Dawn of Time" deities. He got involved with the [[Dawn Cataclysm]], caused when [[Lathander]] tried to make all the gods more like himself. This unfortunately caused Helm's lover [[Murdane]] to be killed, despite this, whether or not he holds a grudge, Helm stoically spends his time watching and waiting for those who mess with the divine order. Says a lot that Helm let something like the Dawn Cataclysm happen though, and was just the first in a series of lapses of vigilance on the part of the Watcher.

During the [[Time of Troubles]], he succeeded in not getting thrown out of the heavens by [[Ao]] simply because everyone knew that there was no way he could have been the one to steal the Tablets of Fate, after which he was assigned the role of guarding the doorways back and keeping the other gods from returning. In his heavy-handed zeal, when [[Mystra]] tried to order him to let her pass, he struck her dead, permanently damaging the Weave and creating the existence of wild magic and dead magic zones all over Faerûn. During 3rd edition, such places were often referred to as "Helmlands", a huge blot on Helm's record and one that his worshippers never quite got over.

Further compounding this was the infamous [[Maztica]] disaster, where a bunch of Helm-worshippers discovered Faerûn's South America expy and proceeded to go full Conquistador on the natives, committing acts of brutality, mass slavery, and attempted cultural and ''literal'' genocide. Even though he hadn't told them to do this, Helm's reputation was absolutely ''shot'' after news of this got back to the Sword Coast, to the point he had to found an entire new [[Paladin]] order to try and atone for the damage done and save his reputation.

===Death===
Somehow, Helm got roped into delivering love letters between the gods: [[Tyr]] and [[Tymora]].

Things went pear shaped when Tyr later accused Helm of stealing Tymora's heart ''(presumably in the figurative sense)'' and challenges Helm to a duel over the matter of honour. Then Tyr got the satisfaction of killing Helm.

The whole story smacks of contrived bullshit though, because Tyr is the <u>Lawful Good</u> of Justice, and a greater deity at that. So fighting over petty love letters is a bit beneath him. Also prematurely jumping to the fatal conclusion that the god of <u>Vigilance</u> who he trusted to deliver the letters would end up stealing his girl is a bit of an error in judgement.

Thankfully, Tyr noticed the flaw in his logic and felt he could no longer function in his position as god of Justice. He would later abdicate his position and invest all of his divine power into his former servant and ally [[Torm]].

One in-universe theory is that Helm wasn't actually killed at all, but merged with Tyr ''(or was an aspect of him all along)'', so Tyr absorbed Helm and then Torm absorbed Tyr... creating one super god of goodness, vigilance, duty, justice and paladins.

Then later Helm got better. They don't even try to explain it.  He's not dead now, deal with it.