Building on our previous work on enriched universal algebra, we define a notion of enriched language consisting of function and relation symbols whose arities are objects of the base of enrichment $\mathcal {V}$. In this context, we construct atomic formulas and define the regular fragment of our enriched logic by taking conjunctions and existential quantification of those. We then characterize $\mathcal {V}$-categories of models of regular theories as enriched injectivity classes in the $\mathcal {V}$-category of structures. These notions rely on the choice of an orthogonal factorization system $(\mathcal {E},\mathcal {M})$ on $\mathcal {V}$ which will be used, in particular, to interpret relation symbols and existential quantification.

Any modality in homotopy type theory gives rise to an orthogonal factorization system of which the left class is stable under pullbacks. We show that there is a second orthogonal factorization system associated with any modality, of which the left class is the class of ○-equivalences and the right class is the class of ○-étale maps. This factorization system is called the modal reflective factorization system of a modality, and we give a precise characterization of the orthogonal factorization systems that arise as the modal reflective factorization system of a modality. In the special case of the n-truncation, the modal reflective factorization system has a simple description: we show that the n-étale maps are the maps that are right orthogonal to the map $${\rm{1}} \to {\rm{ }}{{\rm{S}}^{n + 1}}$$ . We use the ○-étale maps to prove a modal descent theorem: a map with modal fibers into ○X is the same thing as a ○-étale map into a type X. We conclude with an application to real-cohesive homotopy type theory and remark how ○-étale maps relate to the formally etale maps from algebraic geometry.