User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/The Freljord Hype.../@comment-405023-20130416041045

I still fail to understand the issue with any of these changes except for MAYBE Trundle's, even though Trundle was completely detatched from everything and it felt more like League of Legends, plus guest star: Trundle the Troll.

Gragas' change didn't seem like it mattered too much, since either way he is just that drunk guy who wanders around and gets into bar fights in public places while brewing drinks in Freljord. It's just... now instead of being south of Noxus, he's actually in Freljord. I... Okay. This seems entirely pointless but it's not a huge change that I am even going to sit and complain about.

Udyr, I have no idea why people complain about. His lore is THE SAME, except for two things. First, he is now born in Freljord instead of some generic field with no specified location in the world. He still meets Lee Sin and goes to train in a monastery in Ionia. Okay. And then his lore says he goes back to Freljord at some point. Who knows when that is, or how long he stayed there. Either way, all this changes is the fact that he associates with Freljord now as well as the same association he had with Ionia.

Olaf, I think this was cool what they did here. And Brand by association I guess.

Tryndamere/Ashe/Anivia okay okay things taking place. No changes that have gone down that are severe enough.

Nunu... no longer seems to be associated with anyone except NOT Lissandra. And yetis are no longer a major Freljordian race. Okay. This is like the only change in ANY of these lores I dislike.

Trundle went from a backstory where he lived in place that may as well have not existed with people who may as well have not existed, had a backstory revolving around him being a crappy excuse for a troll, and being gross and disease-ridden... to an ice troll that rose up to become the leader of Lissandra's new troll army. I see this as an overall improvement, even if I think the new lore has some issues.

And unless they add that mystery nemesis from Tryndamere's lore, I see no reasonable way they could slide more champions into Freljord. Everyone without a definite not-Freljord alliance and origin is from well south of the mountains in places like Shurima Desert of the Plague Jungles or something.

It seems to me like people are overreacting a little bit, to the point where I am seeing things like petitions to undo these lore changes and things like that.