Helm

Helm
Alignment	Lawful Neutral
Divine Rank	Intermediate God / Dead God
Pantheon	Faerun
Portfolio	Guardians, Vigilance
Domains	Law, Planning, Protection, Strength
Home Plane	House of the Triad (Celestia)
Worshippers	Paladins, Bodyguards, Town Guards, People who need stuff guarded
Favoured Weapon	Ever Watchful' (BASTARD sword)

Helm is the Lawful Neutral (bordering on Lawful Stupid) God of Watchmen, Guardians, Soldiers, Duty and Loyalty in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons.

Helm sits in that unfortunate place where he's most known for being either really boring or for being a huge dickhead.

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 Mundane 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 Faerun. 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 is the infamous Maztica disaster, where a bunch of Helm-worshippers discovered Faerun's South America expy and proceeded to turn into a band of psychos, 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.