Those of Valdara, raised in the Faith, understand the Heliac as one pole of the cosmic order — a principle of outward force, solar energy, and directed will that moves through the world as fire moves through wood. The name comes from Helios, the wandering star whose light drives growth, whose heat gives courage, and whose daily arc across the sky is the oldest clock the world has ever kept. The Faith does not say that men are Heliac because of what they do — it says that those who are Heliac carry the nature of the sun in their being, and that this is as fundamental and as beautiful as the sun itself. You are this, in body and in self.