Aatrox was a great warrior in Shurima's fight against the Void. However, he and his compatriots threaten to become an even greater threat to the Land of Runeterra. Eventually, they were defeated by the cunning sorcery of mortals, and their spirits were locked in weapons. After hundreds of years of imprisonment, Aatrox was the first to break free, corrupting and transforming the foolish who dared to get his hands dirty. Now, he has rudely reshaped the flesh and blood he had taken to mimic his former image, longing for a long-overdue apocalyptic revenge.

The Darkspawn has been mentioned in many legends, with some describing him as a god and others as a demon. But few people know his real name, and how he fell.

In ancient times, long before the sands swallowed up the empire, a great hero of Shurima was brought to the Sun's Disc as the embodiment of interstellar faith that no one remembers today. When he was reinvented as the Ascendant, his wings glowed like the golden light of dawn, and his armor shone like a constellation behind a curtain of deep space.

Aatrox is his real name. He charged forward in every noble battle. He was sincere and well-led, and the other Celestial warriors were always gathered under his command, followed by 10,000 of Shurima's mortal soldiers. When the Ascended Warrior Setaka sought his help because of Acacia's rebellion, Aatrox did not hesitate to comply.

However, no one could have predicted that the local rebels would later unleash such a terrifying force. The Void turned against each other in an instant, devouring Acacia, and then began to destroy all living beings in its path.

After years of hard fighting, Aatrox and his compatriots finally stopped the Void's frenzied expansion and sealed the largest rift. But the surviving Ascendants, who call themselves the Sun Bloodline, have been forever changed by their enemies. Although Shurima was victorious, they all lost something...... The noble Aatrox was no exception.

Time passed, and Shurima also fell. As in the fate of all empires.

Without the kingship to defend to the death, and the threat of the Void no longer imminent, Aatrox and the Sun Bloodline began to fight each other, eventually turning into a war that destroyed their world. The mortals who escaped were given them a new name, a scorn: the Darkspawn.

Just like the invasion of the Void, fearing that the fallen Ascenders would also endanger the survival of the Runeterras, the Titans intervened. It is said that the Twilight Star Spirit taught mortals the means to imprison the Dark Descendants, and the newly reborn War Star Spirit united an army against them. Aatrox and his army had been feared and ready to attack. But by the time he realized he had been tricked, it was too late. A gravitational pull greater than a thousand dead stars dragged him into his hand with the greatsword that had traveled with him countless times, locking his immortal spirit away forever.

The weapon was a prison that sealed his consciousness in impenetrable eternal darkness, and even deprived him of the ability to dismantle himself. He tugged at the hellish shackles for hundreds of years, until some stupid nameless grabbed the greatsword again. Aatrox seized the opportunity to forcibly inject his will into the host's body, and reshaped the host's body in imitation of his original image, while also taking the host's life. In the years that followed, Aatrox overran many hosts, both men and women, who were both vigorous and resolute. Although his magic is not profound, he can take the body of a mortal in an instant. And in battle, he found that the dead could be used by him, and he made himself stronger and stronger.

Aatrox roamed the land, searching for a way to return him to his ascension form, but the mystery of the sword could never be solved, and he realized that he would never be free. The flesh that had been snatched and brutally reshaped looked more and more like a mockery of his former glory—and it was just another cage slightly larger than the greatsword. Despair and shame grew in his heart. The divine power he once represented, and all his memories, were erased.

The unjust fate made him angry. And the solution he finally thought of was the bitter despair of a prisoner. If he can't destroy the sword, and he can't free himself, then he'll embrace annihilation.

Now, with this ruthless determination, Aatrox spreads war and death along the way. He was left with a blind expectation that if he could drag all creation into a final apocalyptic battle that would destroy everything — then perhaps he and the sword would cease to exist forever.

Varus is a Darkspawn from the Ancients. As a cold-blooded killer, he loves nothing more than torturing his enemies with arrows. Let them lose their hearts and go mad first, and then end their lives. Although Varus was imprisoned after the end of the War of the Darkspawn, he managed to escape hundreds of years later, living in the flesh and blood recreated by two Ionian hunters. The two unwittingly freed Varus, and from then on they took on the longbow that contained Varus's spirit. Now Varus seeks out those who imprisoned him, eager to take revenge, but the two souls in his body are thwarting his every move.

Whatever he became, Varus was a model of loyalty and honor. As a skilled archer of the Empire of Ushurima, he was assigned to guard a temple in the eastern region, which he regarded as his supreme duty.

In the early days of the Acacia War, Varus's hometown was attacked despite its distance from the Cursed Lands. The other guards left their posts to defend the surrounding villages, but Varus remained alone in the temple. Each arrow was accompanied by a heart-wrenching roar of rage as he chose to keep his oath instead of returning home to protect his family.

When the emissaries of the Ascension found him, they saw him kneeling among the corpses of his enemies and meditating in solemn silence. It is said that his icy gaze makes even the Celestial warriors feel uneasy. Despite this, in recognition of his valuable dedication, they invited Varus to join the ranks of the Ascended.

As one of the great Ascendants, he was only interested in seeking revenge on Acacia and the Void. It seems that Varus did not understand that Shurima had won the war, and that he did not fully understand how the empire had fallen hundreds of years later, and his mind became extremely distorted. One after another atrocities made him a withdrawn and cold-blooded killer. Again and again the fallen compatriots sent him into battle.