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Leona
A Solari warrior carrying the power of the sun. Her devotion brings protection to some and violence to those her faith treats as enemies.
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Runeterra / Sprawling western mountains
Sprawling western mountains
Targon
Above the clouds, a mountain connects mortal trials to the mysteries of the heavens.
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Pilgrimage · Celestial Aspects · Sun and moon
Living on the slopes
Targon is both an immense mountain and the home of communities adapted to its slopes. Rakkor life depends on climbing skills, hardy animals, seasonal movement and equipment that can be carried or stored along steep routes. Religious practice is woven into that daily effort. The summit draws attention, but most inhabitants live with the mountain rather than attempting its legendary ascent.
The sun and the forbidden moon
The dominant Solari faith venerates the sun and maintains a powerful religious and military tradition. The Lunari practise their devotion to the moon under persecution. Leona and Diana embody these celestial powers, while their personal histories complicate the division between the two faiths. Temples, shrines and astronomical instruments reveal how closely belief and observation of the sky are connected.
What an Aspect changes
Some people who survive the ascent return bound to celestial powers known as Aspects. This is not the same process as Shuriman Ascension, and it does not erase every mortal story in the same way. Atreus, who bears the name Pantheon, survives the death of the divine power that once possessed him. His resistance makes mortal agency central to a region often described through gods.
A mountain facing the cosmos
Targon’s stories connect an isolated landscape to forces that operate on a cosmic scale. Aurelion Sol’s enslavement and the use of his power expose an uneasy relationship between celestial authority and freedom. The mountain is therefore more than a gateway to enlightenment: its myths also ask who benefits when mortals and cosmic beings are bound to purposes they did not choose.
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Diana
Bound to the Aspect of the Moon, Diana challenges the exclusion of Lunari belief. Her search concerns both forgotten history and her own place in it.
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Pantheon
Atreus refuses to let divine power define the limits of human courage. His story separates the celestial Aspect of War from the mortal who outlived it.
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