The Solari drove out the moon’s faith, but they never managed to wipe it away. The Lunari kept its ancient power burning long after Mount Targon’s sun-worshippers branded it corruption. It survived in hiding instead of in temples, handed down by people with good reason to keep quiet about what they still held sacred and careful about whom they trusted with it.
Diana is the strongest link between that concealed belief and the present day. Branded Scorn of the Moon from birth by the same order that might once have called her a sister, she treats the Lunari’s suffering as her own history rather than a far-off legend. Her ongoing defiance keeps the old faith from vanishing completely, even if she never meets anyone else who still shares it.
Aphelios, known as the Weapon of the Faithful, reflects a devotion that suits a religion surviving underground much better than one bold enough to worship in the open. The Solari have Leona, a champion shaped to carry their doctrine into public view. The Lunari have no comparable figure in plain sight, only subtler signs and older names that never fully disappeared from the mountain.
The remaining champions of Targon sit outside this particular struggle, cosmic in scale rather than partisan in allegiance. Aurelion Sol pursues ambitions that predate the sun-and-moon rift, and Soraka, the Starchild, heals whoever needs it, whatever faith they grew up with and whichever side of the mountain they support. Their impartiality makes the contrast sharper: even on a peak crowded with cosmic might, the room to follow the moon openly survives mostly in memory, and in the few, Diana among them, who are prepared to fight for more. The Lunari have lost their temples and their public worship, yet they have kept going by simply refusing to vanish, generation after generation, however firmly the Solari assumed the matter was settled.