The Temple's Account
Light is duty made visible.
Alistair, God of Light, gave mortals more than illumination. He gave them a standard by which the strong might be judged: law above appetite, service above ambition, and sacrifice in defense of those who cannot defend themselves.
From that charge rose the Temple and its orders. Judges carry the red hammer of Justice. Wardens bear the silver lantern of Truth. Practitioners keep the gold sunburst of Faith. Their authorities are separate so that no single hand may claim judgment, investigation, and divine certainty at once.
The Temple remembers the old wars as the cost of resisting powers that treated mortal lives as fuel. It remembers the Sundering as a warning: compassion without restraint can become catastrophe, and forbidden power does not cease to be dangerous because its wielder believes the purpose noble.
Light does not promise that every servant will be righteous. It asks that wrongdoing be brought into view, named, and answered. Institutions may fail their vows. The vows remain.