As a god, Helcrom continued much as he had during life, contemplating and expanding his understanding of the universe. Yet even as his view of the universe broadened, a fundamental tenet of the monk teachings that had been with him since early childhood became increasingly plausible to him--that balance must be struck between the forces of order and the energies of chaos. After long contemplation, he decided that a state of neither complete order nor complete chaos was desirable, if even possible, but that there must exist a balance between them. "Order cannot exist without chaos to impose its pattern upon" he is believed to have said, "but life, indeed all existence as mortals know it, cannot exist without order." Therefore, you will sometimes hear Helcrom referred to as Helcrom the Balanced, the fulcrum between Phaet and Nixil. Some even say that the mysterious symbol of Helcrom is actually meant to suggest a scale, with its center beam and its two symmetrical balance-arms.