Talk:Aatrox/@comment-7709681-20180625173612/@comment-7709681-20180625200926

The extended story got released: They weren't corrupted by the Void, across "The Cage", "Twilight of the Gods" and the Darkin's world-building that came with them states that most of the surviving Ascendants developed PTSD due to the conflict against the Void (in fact, we see a bit on the surviving soldiers at the end of "Where Icathia Once Stood") which didn't take its toll on them until centuries later once Azir fell during his Ascension and Shurima with him, because at that point the felt purposeless and started to pursuit personal goals as the mortals they were.

They developed Haemomancy to reshaped themselves into more optimal forms that were alien their previous Ascended selves by funneling life from others, even the weakest of  their kind, which caused the first Darkin War (the one against each other).