Targon

Plenty of people climb this peak for more than its altitude. What draws them back is what waits at the summit, and the first thing to wait there was a quarrel over which light deserves reverence.

Those Who Serve the Sun

The Solari hold the highest ground here. They are a sun-venerating order that sees light and order as one thing and regards the moon as near-blasphemy. Leona, the Radiant Dawn, is that order in its purest form: a warrior wrapped in solar radiance who prefers holding a position to chasing fame. Pantheon, the Unbreakable Spear, lives out the same belief in every battle he enters, choosing to demonstrate faith with his spear rather than debate it.

The Moon That Refused to Vanish

The Lunari were never wiped out, whatever the Solari intended. Diana, known as the Scorn of the Moon, was expelled by that same order after uncovering a truth it would rather keep buried, and she now brings lunar power straight back into the mountain that banished her. Aphelios, the Weapon of the Faithful, keeps that hidden devotion alive with almost no words, letting his sister voice a faith he can no longer speak aloud himself.

Beyond both factions, older and stranger forces still hold sway over the mountain. Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger, once shaped stars until something cut his ambitions down to the mountain’s scale, a cosmic force its human factions scarcely notice. Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight, and Soraka, the Starchild, each carry fragments of that cosmic order into softer, more immediate forms: one treats the mountain’s power as a game, the other gives hers away to people who will never grasp what it cost her. Taric, the Shield of Valoran, belongs to none of the factions and serves only the idea of protection wherever it is needed. Each carries the mountain’s power differently: as light, vengeance, forge-fire, play, a debt repaid, or an oath kept long after anyone remained to enforce it. None of them regard the peak as scenery. For all of them, the climb is the point, not the view from the top.