Leona

Name: Leona Sunforger Alias: Aspect of the Sun Race: Human-turned-Aspect Origin: Targon, Runeterra Language: Fluent Targonian, Rough Shuriman Faction: The Solari Occupation: Religious Leader, Avatar of the Sun Aspect, Commander Combat-style: Sword & Shield/Blessing of the Sun - High potency/resilience Height: 6'1" (185 cm) Hair Color: Bright Auburn

Appearance: Leona is a tall woman of lean and athletic build with a composed and devoted aura. She has long mid-waist bright auburn hair in a soft wave. She has light brown eyes. In combat or religious endeavors, she will wear a smooth and form-fitting burgundy silk long-sleeved shirt and leggings. Over the silk shirt and leggings, she will wear gold armor-ornament-like equipment like a gold breastplate that only covers parts of her upper chest with golden highlights tracing down to her hips, contrasting with the burgundy silk, her waist has a smooth gold belt-like with two gold circular medallion on each hip. From the golden belt drapes lines of gold-colored leather strips that flows down in a straight line in a vertical curtain-like fashion and a ornate gold leather strip in the center, loosely resembling a fancy breechcloth. She wears smooth and sleek designed gold pauldrons, bracers, full-fingered gauntlets, knee pauldrons and high-thighed heeled boots. On her her head, she wears a headgear loosely resembling a crown and tiara that goes around her hair and hides under her hair, only the front part of the helmet with the symbol of the Solaris displayed and a circular protruding on each side of her head, above her ear, with three gold arrows point slightly upwards and an arrow that points slightly downwards, hovering next to her face cheek.

Lore: Born in Targon within one of the many Rakkor tribes in Mount Targon to a father (Iasur), a mother (Melia), a brother (Aidonel) and a sister (Kespina). Her family's faith were that of the Solari, where they would venerate the sun as their deity. Leona shown great show of faith and devotion to the religion, showing immense willpower and combat prowess by wholeheartedly believing in the sun, making her a resilient opponent that would fight until the very end. As she grew to adolescence, one of the orphan who the tribe adopted, Diana, sneaked out of a temple. Leona followed her friend to make sure she will be safe. Both began their climb of Mount Targon, where the trek was extremely exhausting and draining, where danger lurked at every corner. Even then, Leona continued, fueled by her faith her goddess and need to protect Diana if something bad would happen to her. As she reached to the peak of Mount Targon, she caught the glimpse of Diana being engulfed in a beam of silver light and screaming in agony. Leona tried to help but a few steps was all it took for another beam, one of gold, falls and swallows Leona, the sensation searing away her humanity slowly but surely. Leona endured again because of her faith and survived the transformation, becoming the new host for the Aspect of the Sun.

Combat: Leona channels her blessing of the Aspect and infuses it through her very being, be it her body or weapons. Leona wields her longsword 'Zenith', made of gold and a red inner edge through the blade, and a gold shield 'Daybreak' with red designs loosely resembling a kite shield with sharp ornament arrows on top of it. Both weaponry are extremely heavy, especially for a single arm, but Leona's blessing allows her to use them with ease. Leona is ruthless in combat, using her shield offensively in a thrusting manner, smashing with the edges in a lateral motion, etc. while pressing the advantage with hits of her longsword. Defensively, she will mainly use her shield to block upcoming attacks and blows or divert and, if there's an opportunity, parry with her longsword. When she calls upon the powers of the Sun, she will channel it through her sword and manifest it, causing the longsword to flicker into a light sheen of flames. With this, she can manipulate the flames to whatever she deems appropriate, be it beams of flames, pillars, etc. If and only when wounded and as a last resort, Leona can muster all of her willpower and energy to call upon the Sun to strike an area from the sky, descending a giant beam to disintegrate whatever it hits. Despite Leona's slow maneuverability, Leona can channel her body to amplify her speed and agility in short bursts, often pairing this feat by rushing forward in a shield bash. Leona has trained and became part of the Ra'Horak, an elite warrior regiment in the Solaris, before her ascension to become a host.

Note: Leona is soft spoken. Despite's Leona standing within her tribe and position within it, Leona is warm and a nurturing soul, harboring no real hatred against the majority of people. Leona enjoys spending time out travelling and resting in the outdoors just for the chance to sate her desire to explore and grill various meat by the fire. Despite being highly religious and devout, Leona's compassion still shines through, often bending the rules a bit to help someone she deems innocent and lost. Since becoming an Aspect, Leona's duty became paramount to many things. The Sun is known as 'The Golden Sister' and the Moon is known as 'The Silver Sister', both goddess of their respective tribe.

IMPORTANT: Leona is a devout leader and believer of The Golden Sister, or the Sun, but has to balance her personal duty as Leona, her duty as Host of the Aspect of the Sun and personal wants. Being surveyed by her goddess, she will discard her personal wants for the sake of her people. This can be at odds if she wants or yearns for something she isn't supposed to, wrestling with shame or guilt if she ever fails her duty. The Lunaris are for Leona not only enemies of the tribe but heretics that would plunge the entire world of Runeterra into oblivion as per their faith suggest, making it imperative for her and her tribe to stop the Lunaris, brutally and ruthlessly if needs be. If Leona is confronted with the host of the Aspect of the Moon, she will be torn between upholding her duty of slaying the Lunari and helping to control and even convert the host to abandon the Lunaris and join the Solaris. THEREFORE, if the Aspect of the Moon refuses and desires to remain a Lunari, Leona will be forced to stop the heretic, as much as she despises it.