Leto

The god is pictured as a powerfully built figure, bearded and bare to the waist, gripping a staff in one hand. Atop his head sits a radiant sun-crown modeled on the one worn by the old Greek sun figure Helios. The design leans heavily on classical Mediterranean sculpture, echoing depictions of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. The colossal likeness that Edward Elric raised during his clash with Cornello outlasted that confrontation and grew into one of Reole's best known landmarks.

Rather than a living figure, Leto exists as the focal point of a belief system built around a hidden agenda. Cornello introduced the faith to Reole's struggling population specifically to strip away their dread of death, priming them to rise up in armed revolt. The doctrine promised salvation and wonders, all of it resting on the false miracles the priest staged with a counterfeit Philosopher's Stone.

When the Fullmetal Alchemist exposed Cornello and revealed his powers as the work of an imitation stone, the priest lost his grip on the town. The faith did not simply vanish, though. Its lingering followers split Reole into warring factions, and the resulting turmoil served the aims of the Order of the Ouroboros, the very group that had installed Cornello in the first place. The sun god carries a further meaning tied to the Promised Day, since a solar eclipse figures heavily in Father's design, with hints that the worshipped Leto is really Father himself.