The Darkin Patch

which is also the Shadow Isles patch,

concerns in part a religious and political divide in the interior of Noxus, which is the Ability Power kingdom. The Darkin are not evil but they are totally other, as alien as the Void.

Annie - blood on her arms, where she cuts them. She worships the Darkin.

Aatrox - is the idea of blood. He is the god of violent death, an elemental.

Tryndamere - has blood all over him.

Diana - has blood on her.. tabard. : S A ritualized depiction of menstruation, the exiled female principle of the Sun Church

Warwick - has blood on his muzzle

Hecarim - has blood on his mask, hooves, bracers

Karthus - has no blood at all, and rules the bloodless islands

Azir - has no blood anymore either, and it might make for some alliance with Karthus and his Shadow Isles

Garen - has blood on his cloak, which is made from feathers.

Vladimir - ... : D

Xin Xiao - has blood in little bottles. He has..other fluids too. In one skin he is AP Xin, he has become a.. spell.. vampire. Life from the excercise of magic, and stronger magic means more life, because it scales.

Singed - has no blood. He has, you know, motor oil. He is dead in a different way than Karthus. Singed has cast aside blood, Karthus still longs for it and remembers it.

Swain - has blood on the beaks of the birds that flock to him.

Brand - has.. plasma..

Darius - has blood in his mouth, blood on his lips. He is royalty, privileged to eat only rare meat. He worships the Darkin, which is .. kind of a nature cult, in Noxus.

Bard - is charged with the kind of tasks like 'contain the darkin' All blood is his but he has none of it, a kind of zen koan creature.