Ascendants

The umbrella term Ascended refers to all humans who were magically altered by a variety of magic, chiefly celestial magic. After their ascension, the Ascended can channel celestial magic through their connection to celestial entities, but do not "gain" celestial magic themselves.

Types of Ascendants

Targonian Ascendants

Aspect Hosts are Targonian ascended and mostly a melding of a Human and Targon Prime celestial known as an Aspect, which primarily retain their human appearance.

Shuriman Ascendants

The God-Warriors, known also as the Sunborn, are Shuriman ascended magically altered by the Sun Disc of Shurima using the stolen knowledge of Aurelion Sol Aurelion Sol and the sun's power, their common form is that of anthropomorphised animals, however they are able to take any any form they wish during ascension.
Baccai are Shuriman ascended who failed to fully ascend, where as Darkin are Shuriman ascended who drastically altered their bodies with hemomancy. Currently, most darkin are trapped in weapons, but morph their hosts into an approximation of their original darkin forms.

Darkin

Darkin are corrupted God-Warriors who were traumatized by the horrors of the Void War as well as self infliction by the use of blood magic. Currently, all known Darkin have been imprisoned in weapons, unable to ever regain their original Ascended forms.