((... give me a moment to stop giggling about you calling Kelemvor Kelly
Yes, pretty much everything you said sounds right! (according to my knowledge, which is admittedly held together with headcanons in some places). Just a few points:
First: Most of the benefit that the good deities recieve form letting the Wall of the Faithless hang around is that they don’t piss off the evil deities by trying to tear it down. Kind of like how Kelemvor can’t just pull the KC’s soul out of the Wall and fix the spirit eater curse because it was a punishment decreed by his predecessor, and the other gods would start yelling about how the new guy has no respect. Also Lathander has tried reworking the pantheon to suit him better and it didn’t end well. None of the gods exist in a vacuum ok they’ve got rivalries and shit. Like how Cyric couldn’t stick his nose into the Bhaalspawn business because he knew that Midnight and Kelemvor would gleefully come wreck his shit if he tried.
Assuming the Avatar series (namely Waterdeep and Prince of Lies) is accurate in its depictions of the Fugue Plane, Kelemvor doesn’t actually have to judge the Faithful. If you’re Fatihful, you stand on the Fugue Plane and shout prayers to your deity (Or sing to them, or boast about your accomplishments in battle, or however it is your god likes you to attract their attention) until they send a messenger to come pick up the latest batch of dead worshipers.
The Faithless and the False find themselves unable to call out or speak much at all (assuming that Gwydion in Prince of Lies is a typical example, anyway). I’m guessing this has something to do with how their soul doesn’t *know* any of the gods. To continue using Gwydion as an example, because he’s the only dead guy I’ve read about who’s gone through this process: He was one of Torm’s False. He managed to cry out to Torm after a couple of Cyric’s Faithful picked him up and dragged him into the city. Torm showed up and tried to intervene, but Gwydion couldn’t read any of the words for duty or loyalty on Torm’s gauntlets (Torm has... special ideas about armor decoration, apparently), so Cyric got to do whatever he wanted to him.
So, the Fugue Plane: We’ve got clusters of the Faithful calling out to their gods, faithless and false walking around in varying states of distress because they can’t talk, and Doomguides and fiends wandering around looking for them. (There is precious little about what Doomguides actually do in Kelemvor’s service, but if Cyric’s Denizens were responsible for leading the unfaithful into the City, then I assume Doomguides inherited that duty) The fiends probably mostly target the unfaithful and the Faithful of evil gods who recognize that becoming a lemure would probably be a better decision than going to their god’s afterlife, where they might be welcomed but would more likely be tortured for <insert random shortcoming here>.
As for Kelemvor ending up a god of the Faithless: I don’t think it’s very likely, but planes are confusing. And my argument against it was that Kelemvor’s domain is the City of Judgement rather than the Fugue Plane, buuut the Forgotten Realms wiki says that the Fugue Plane is divinely morphic for Kelemvor, so idk. It also says that the Fugue Plane is in the Astral Sea, which. Suggests that Toril’s dead actually do end up in the Astral Plane at least briefly before being pulled there and. IDK I need to find more Forgotten Realms books about dead people.
I also want to figure out what happened to Mystra/Azuth/Tyr/Helm’s faithful who died after their god but before they converted to another religion. I could see multiple gods being willing to welcome them, but you make a good point about followers changing the alignment of a plane - in Kelemvor’s case, I’d guess that his city would just kinda shift a bit to another plane the way Myrkul and Cyric’s cities were technically in Hades, but hmm. I should reread Prince of Lies and see what it says about Myrkul’s faithful.))
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