User blog comment:A.Darkbloom/Institute of War/Summoners/etc no longer being canon/@comment-10540150-20140905222125

In terms of community fandom, this is devastating. A lot of custom champion lore is going to be invalidated, and fan fiction is probably going to be divided from now on, in terms of BI and AI(Before Invalidation and After Invalidation, although it'll probably be called something not so stupid.) Honestly, I don't like it. They've been working toward the same end goal for years now, and to suddenly change their entire standpoint on lore is massive. I thought the idea of there being this class of wizard called Summoner was very interesting in terms of what you could do in terms of fan fiction, and the idea of the League of Legends in general was really good, although it was, as they said, slightly limiting. But now that they've committed to this, I actually really want to see how they're going to change the lore and still explain the constant battles. Will it be a new Rune War, with champions lining up to kill and be killed? Or will there be any real tie ins to the game at all, or will lore and gameplay truely take separate turns from here, with the game being completely and utterly non-canon altogether, and sanctioned stories and novels and(Hopefully) movies being the true story? We'll just have to wait and see.