St. Helba
Foolish Fortune, Rebellion’s Yell, The Instigator and Investigator, The Blue Exorcist
Domains: Arcana, Knowledge, Trickery
Probably the youngest of all the deities of Midgard, St. Helba Stross is credited with redeeming her family line and freeing the Crossroads through selfless action, foolish directness, and heroic faith. She is the patron of investigators, adventurers, and other fighters of corruption.
St. Helba appears as she did in life: a brilliantly blue-skinned tiefling with long, blue-white hair, tiny horns, and wearing robes closely resembling one of Rava’s faithful. She has yet to appear in any other form, although she has been known to send heralds who have occasionally been heard
complaining of someone not quite understanding the situation.
Worshippers: St. Helba is worshiped primarily by the citizens of the Free City of Zobeck and its surrounding lands. Her followers have been spreading
her faith into other lands with limited success, focusing on regions where they perceive oppression by any sort of “higher class” and have found themselves popular with slaves desiring liberation.
Symbols and Books: Flaming and broken blue shackles are the holy symbol of St. Helba. Shattered locks, doors off of their hinges, and a halo of blue flame are common in her other iconography. The holy words and battle cries of the saint have yet to be compiled into a single book. Flyers and broadsheets from her time supporting the citizenry before the Great Revolt are currently copied and distributed by her faithful. Her hymns were once
protest chants. Correspondences to other nobles that argued against corruption both infernal and mundane are still being compiled and verified and any aid finding more is richly rewarded.
Famous Shrines and Priests: The entire city of Zobeck is considered holy to St. Helba’s church, and numerous small shrines exist throughout the city. A
handful of locations within the city are considered pilgrimage sites: the Redrock jailhouse where she was supposedly imprisoned and tortured for her words, the dock where she was executed by her own infernally corrupted family, and the shrine to Rava where she is said to have appeared in a vision to the rebellion’s leaders and their first gearforged allies.
Masks: The Investigator and Instigator is sometimes accused of being Rava or a mere mouthpiece for her and other times of being a corruption of a different kind as a mask for the Goat of the Woods.
Other Faiths: The church of St. Helba is on friendly terms with most of the gods of Zobeck, especially Rava. Few other faiths even know of her church’s existence. What the Saint Demands: Defend the weak. Root out corruption wherever you find it, be it supernatural, magical, mortal, or within your mind, your blood, or your community. Explore, and learn the truth
