User blog comment:Emptylord/Leaked Champion: Vel'Koz/@comment-9705522-20140203160407/@comment-7707975-20140203171416

If by "thrown howling into the abyss" they are trying to say "thrown into the Void" as it was speculated in this blog, then the Watchers do have a link to the Void, and this could be when they got Void powers, if they didn't have them already at this point.

Which I think they did.