Editing Kelemvor (section)

==History==
===Ascension===
As mentioned, he was born a mortal: Kelemvor of the Lyonsbane family, a minor noble and a bloodline of little note, except to one slighted sorceress who was left for dead in the distant past by her [[Murderhobo]] companion, Kyle Lyonsbane, so he could go rob as much loot as possible.

So she put a curse on the family, where his descendants would turn into [[Furry|uber-sexy werepanthers]] if they ever did anything purely for profit. Unfortunately the stupid cow couldn't get the magic to stick right, and so the descendants of Kyle would turn into panthers if they ever did anything that ''didn't'' give them any profit. So the family became miserly assholes who had absolutely strict terms of payment before they'd get off their arses to do anything, not matter what.

By Kelemvor's time, he had to insist on payment even in situations where his friends were in trouble, being unable to help them for free without turning into a giant cat and tearing their faces off.

So Kelemvor entered into the lifestyle of a mercenary, which worked for him. It was as a mercenary that he came into the service of the mortal Midnight and a companion of [[Cyric]]. Their little adventuring party was rounded out by a [[Cleric]] of [[Sune]] called '''Adon''' (who never became a god so we can forget him).

During the '''Time of Troubles''', Cyric got his hands on the sword '''Godsbane''' which had been used to kill the deities [[Bhaal]] and [[Leira]]. He then did what any god-killing weapon wielder would do: proceed to be a team-killing dick and waste Kelemvor with it, taking on the mantles of Death, Betrayal and Lies. In the aftermath, Kelemvor's other companion Midnight got promoted to the goddess [[Mystra]].

However, Cyric sucked as a god of the Dead, and ignored his duties in favour of trying to usurp more divine portfolios so he could make himself the [[Emperor|one true God]], all the while hunting for the soul of Kelemvor so he could use it to blackmail Mystra, who had been his lover. Unfortunately, Cyric couldn't actually find the soul anywhere in his domain, and being god of the Dead, this made him immensely paranoid that Kelemvor somehow wasn't dead. Furthermore, within his own realm, his subjects were revolting against him and he was losing control. Cyric discovered that the reason for all the mayhem was that his sword Godsbane was actually the god [[Mask]] in disguise, and had been working against him for years. When Cyric smashed the sword, it released the soul of Kelemvor, which had been stolen the moment he killed him.

Then the soul of Kelemvor fought the god Cyric, and WON. Though there is more to it than that, considering that: 
#Kelemvor had been readied for his moment of vengeance in his years spent with Mask,
#Cyric was already weakened because his realm was beyond his control, and
#The overgod [[Ao]] had had enough of Cyric's shit, and was prepared to hand over the duties of managing the dead to Kelemvor, who would undoubtedly be more competent than Cyric.

So Kelemvor ''eventually'' became the God of the Dead.

===Godhood===
His first action was to tear down the shitty macabre decorations the previous gods used to decorate the realm and build a crystal city as a shining beacon of hope.

He stopped torturing the ''Faithless'' and ''False'' - those souls who either didn't believe in the gods, or who believed in them but didn't actually merit any divine patronage - who ended up in his realm because they had nowhere else to go. He also rewarded those who had been virtuous and punished those who were wicked, worse, and started sending souls to wherever ''he'' thought they should go.

This got Kelemvor into deep shit, though, when mortals started considering Kelemvor as their primary cause for concern in the afterlife instead of worrying about what their own god had prepared for them. Not only that, but after sending a dutiful, but False soul to the realm of [[Torm]], objections were raised over whether it was in Kelemvor's remit to do so. Particularly when [[Mask]] declared that the soul should have instead been his, after he had been masquerading as the soul's patron deity all his life even though the individual hadn't really believed, so if anyone was getting a free soul it should be Mask. Kelemvor just went ''"fuck it"''' and decided to name the soul as his first Herald instead. 

It all came to a head when Cyric raised his ugly head again with another [[Tzeentch|extremely convoluted plan to become Overgod]] [[not as planned|that failed just as spectacularly as the first one]]. Cyric was eventually put on trial by the other Gods who were really, really, '''really''' tired of his [[bullshit]]. But Cyric turned the case completely around, successfully arguing that as a God of ''chaos'' and ''lies'' he'd actually been doing what was expected of him by being a total dickhead to absolutely everyone. The other Gods grudgingly had to give that to him and Cyric went even further, accusing Kelemvor and Mystra (who had been denying magic to evildoers) of being "incompetent by reason of humanity". It wasn't actually Kelemvor's role to judge souls nor Mystra's role to allow or deny magic to mortals going by their set of human morals. They were now ''Gods'' and they were supposed to act like it, not like [[Karsus|humans with no idea of what they were doing]]. 

This threw the Pantheon in [[skub|a bit of a pickle]], but luckily Mystra and Kelemvor realized their arch-enemy had a valid point for once so they agreed to mend their divine ways and leave their human morals out of it. So Kelemvor shook it up, turning the lights down a shade, making his realm more grey. He stopped rewarding or punishing those who entered his realm, either sending them to the one(s) they venerated in life or leaving them to an eternity of indifference and ''"you really should have picked a better God"''.