User blog comment:A.Darkbloom/Institute of War/Summoners/etc no longer being canon/@comment-12049719-20140906031129/@comment-5955640-20140907191904

I thought I was the only one playing this game who understood that disconnect. Make no mistake, League is going to have luna-Luno-Juno-Daro sargento....Hold on.....This word!

Yeah basically this is the result of deciding that making the stories anchored to the summoners controlling them was stifling artistic expression. Yes, artistic expression. That's arugeably half of why League of Legends exist. It wanted to be an easier version of Dota. And as we can see as of late it wants to be more than just a Moba where you play a mostly faceless character in an arena. They thought binding summoner and character as one person would fix it but it making Lore expansion and character creation kind of. Dfficult.

Some characters had really good flavor text but it was deep in the journals. Others had great concepts and designs but the characters had next to no background to expand or explain why they were there. Other characters had all the motivations and backgrounds. But the serious plots have to share their world with completely atonal characters that pratically take the piss out of the entire thing.

And we don't even know how the summoner succeeds in helping these characters when they just use them for random battles and they are player inserted people that don't really exist in game. They are supposed to be us but we aren't in the game.

I've called the game a kind of purgatory because it just captures people and even if you had a reason to go in, you can never leave on the offchance you completed your objective. (because they can't remove the character from the game). Thresh is in League taking souls because there are limitless souls in league to take. Lucian comes to get revenge. But being in league he gets revived and now Lucian must spend an eternity killing Thresh over and over again.

I am totally not surprised this is controversial and I wouldn't have outright said it to be honest. But this is what they're going to do to make the characters as unique and interesting and as flavor texty as possible. Drop the summoner angle. Expand Runeterra. and just create lots of little stories to engage in through cinematics and animatics.