Teachings Drawn from the Sun
No single order owns Mount Targon outright, yet the Solari have taken hold of its most conspicuous side. Their teaching holds that the sun is where order begins, treats light as a moral force instead of merely a physical one, and regards everything tied to the moon as corruption that must be barred: its adherents, its emblems, and its older claims on the peak.
Leona, the Radiant Dawn, looks almost like the order’s teaching taken on flesh, with armor and a purpose shaped wholly around solar brilliance, serving as a barrier against whatever darkness tries to win back ground higher on the slope.
The Cost of the Ban
A faith that shuts out half the sky is bound to produce losses, and Targon’s champions reveal what that shutting out has yielded. Diana, Scorn of the Moon, came into being because the Solari’s prohibition had no place for her, and her title reads as a pointed answer to the order’s central teaching rather than an accident of naming. Pantheon, the Unbreakable Spear, and Taric, the Shield of Valoran, each carry the mountain’s cosmic weight into combat without any Solari blessing, a sign that Targon’s power was never theirs alone to hand out. Even Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger, and Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight, draw on a cosmic authority the Solari can revere but never fully hold or take credit for.
In this respect, the order’s confidence about light and order is both its greatest asset and its tightest blind spot. Its doctrine is sure enough to build an entire faith upon, yet so rigid that it breeds its own opposition just by insisting half the sky does not count. Each time the Solari hold the mountain, that same insistence gives the excluded half another reason to persist, and Targon’s history still has plenty of such reasons left to offer.