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Lore confusion: So failed ascendants are "Baccai", and fallen ones are "Darkin"?

Zeppelins circus·11/2/2018, 4:15:44 AM·7 votes·6,355 views

This was from a post I made 5 months ago. So in the loading tips I found this wierd info about Shurima. That you can "fail" a ascension ritual and become the so called "Baccai". A thing which are "who often are twisted and malformed."

FIrst hand, I thought they were like evil Egyptian gods like Seth of Apophis, but as the lore expanded, it seems like this idea is "Darkin" now. So what are these "Often twisted and malformed creatures" that are MORE twisted than Darkin. Some theories in the thread pointed out, Xerath might be one. But that seems to not if in the picture since Xerath is obviously not a "fail", but possibly even surpassing previous ascendants. ...This is still a piece of lore unexplained which is interesting.

10 Comments

KestrelGirl11/2/2018, 4:35:26 AM14 votes

Baccai failed the ritual to become Ascended.

Darkin succeeded, but became warped after Shurima's fall.

Xerath is something else entirely.

Cetri11/2/2018, 7:10:13 AM2 votes

Darkin just means you're one of the Ascended who became a warlord after the fall of the Shuriman Empire. Even though most if not all of them used bllod magic to alter their bodies, the term has nothing to do with them being "twisted" in any way.