User blog comment:ZeloAvarosa/Where the f*ck did lore go?/@comment-24073465-20150303205636

In my opinion, the Riot lore is there...it is simply changing and evolving in a different way than what you possibly expect....I think that what many expect are the older days completely describing a character in three to four paragraphs, defining what kind of person/thing they are; maybe the Journal or the League Judgements which helped define those characters...

What they fail to see is that Riot IS developing the lore, but in a different, more malleable way....Through teasers, animated videos (think Jinx or Kalista), descriptions by others (The Journal describing Rek'sai or in Ezreal's work finding out about Aatrox), as well as those animated web pages for the newer champs, hell, even through music such as Vi's theme, Jinx's Theme, and many of the other songs, (Did anyone else think how cool it was how they told Amumu's story in song?), they are introducing character lores in a different way than previously done.

To put it into perspective, think of it this way...Imagine going on wikipedia and reading about an Elephant. It will give you most all of the info you're looking for, and is pretty definitive. Now, imagine you've never heard about an elephant, but while travelling on an african nature safari for some reason (yes, this scenario is muddled; couldn't think of a better one, ok?), your tour guide points out a big, gray pachyderm munching on tall grass, and calls it an elephant. Now, you know very little about this thing except that it's gray, huge, has tusks, eats grass, and whatever info you might hear from your tour guide. You yourself will have to observe it further to see and learn about it; whatever you can't observe, you have to speculate and guess what exactly might the creature be like based on your previous observations. I feel that is more how Riot is moving with the current lores. Rather than "This is X. X is a Y. He/She/It does Z. Insert two more paragraphs here giving history and home address", it tells character stories and traits through these teasers; by having us observe parts of the character's story, by seeing their actions, by seeing the response of ordinary people to their extraordinary tales. It makes us question how the character might be, how they might act and react within life/un-life, thus building a more three dimensional character in the process.

Along with that, there are other ways to get stories across about the whole of Valoran. (As Shaw said in a previous post), all those tales ranging from the Freljord to Shurima's return, to Sion's reanimation (in fact, his redone tale, I feel, is INFINITELY better than the previous one), we learn more on Valoran, it's history, it's champions. Through the BOTRK, songs, Champions/Altars/events/etc. we hear about the Ruined King, how for some reason he tried to make his sorcerors open the boundaries between life and death or something, and wrecked the Shadow Isles because of it. The guy hasn't even introduced yet and there's speculation on what he did to screw the pooch so bad, as well as the relationship between him, Heca and Morde. This, if nothing else, IS Lore Development. Hell, in Bard's teaser, that shattered crown thing gives rise to even MORE speculation on "What the hell DID this guy do? Try to pull a Karthus on a mega scale and gain death powers or something? Try to bring someone he loved back from the dead? Try to achieve immortality or stave off death as long as possible? WHAT DID HE DO!??!?! "

I agree, the development is slow, and if they gave more lore faster, it'd be awesome. However, when you're developing the something THIS huge, you sometimes can't help but be slow. Too much at once and you start limiting yourself; too little and you lose interest. While we may not need more explanation on some champs like Garen, Lux, Darius, Katarina, Ahri, Irelia, Sona, most of the Demacian, Noxian, and Ionian champs (These guys' stories have effectively been set in stone; even if I changed their lore, it would be difficult to make the feel of the story change too much without it affecting how we see those characters), there is still a LOT of things to be seen, and everything from these newer champs, from quotes, to interactions with other champs or items can help effectively build on that. I don't expect to one day see a sudden "LOL Lore bible" telling everything about Valoran and all the champs; but by piecing together what we get, we start getting scenarios, getting possible characters, start speculation on what is happening/has happened/will happen. And we have tons of fun and ideas doing it (check out the speculations running around when they released the teaser on Bard).

I feel it will simply take a bit of time to tell it all, and can afford to wait a while.

TL;DR.....(Someone else please think of one for me; I have no idea over here)