What Varus' new lore tells us about the Darkin.

Hey all. in light of Varus's new lore I wanted to talk about the things that we have learned about the darkin.

For starters we now know that the Darkin have some fleshshifting ability, not just the common ability to corrupt and transform it, but mold it like clay. Rhaast's quote about Kayn "wasting" (t)his flesh implies that the Darkin can use biomatter on a whim and even implies that they really "are" the weapon and whatever body they have is just the host transformed in their own image.

Another aspect is will. Kayn is able to keep himself human but half corrupted while Varus is the opposite, a darkin dominant hybrid that is hindered by the flesh of the couple he used to remake himself. We know that a strong human based Darkin hybrid like Kayn can control his darkin weapon and even purge and kill it to take it's power while Darkin based Hybrid's are more or less screwed as they can only hinder, not control their body as we see with Varus. Rhaast and especially Aatrox is a key example on what happens when the human host is consumed by the darkin.

Lastly, A Darkin can also gain the experiences and skills of their hosts as Rhaast could now use some of kayns abilities and Varus has the combined provers of Valmar and Kai.