The Supreme Heaven, a higher plane, was the realm where the gods dwelled.
After Helm, the God of Guardians, filed the contract in the pantheon of the Pole Star Encampment, every Greater Deity qualified to attend the Realms' High God Council sensed its establishment.
A contract filed in the Pole Star Encampment, the domain of the Overgod, could not have been more sacred. Anyone who sought to challenge such a sacred contract would have to submit to the arbitration of the Overgod Ao.
Yet for ten thousand years, Ao had never concerned himself with these matters. He had entrusted the management and arbitration of the Realms to Helm, the God of Guardians. Helm was an absolute enforcer and upholder of contracts. For ten thousand years, he had safeguarded "judicial fairness," acting strictly in accordance with laws, rules, and contracts. He never bent the law for personal reasons or made exceptions, earning him the name "Cold Heart."
Unless the person subject to enforcement was a young child utterly lacking self-control and the capacity to act independently. Only then would Helm consider the slightest possibility of leniency.
Of course, the gods could appeal if they disagreed with Helm's judgment, but the requirements were extremely stringent. Only a joint petition from ten Greater Deities would prompt Ao to respond, descend in person to hear the appeal, and review Helm's ruling.
Such a thing had almost never happened, because getting ten Greater Deities to agree was exceedingly difficult.
But precisely because of this, every Greater Deity noticed the newly filed contract.
A mortal had actually signed an equal, mutually beneficial contract that satisfied both parties with Moradin, the Dwarf God-King, one of the mightiest even among the Greater Deities?
Moradin was unlike the gods of Realmspace. Like Gruumsh, chief god of the Orks, and