User blog comment:Narbulg/Lore: I'm imagining some weird stuff man/@comment-25003900-20141007142955

Personally, I'm all for the expansion of lore, I greatly enjoy reading it all, and believe I've actually read all of the backgrounds for champions. The thing I don't like is how limited some of it has become. Uh oh, rantish lore comment incomming.

While they've expanded area lore, and occasional champion lores for a relaunch of them, I've seen that many of the champions lores have been cut back substantially. They set fire to the journal of justice, chopped character lores down to litle paragraph long snippets, and while sure they expanded Sion's lore, there's more dialog involved in it than actual back story. All we really get about Sion as a person, as a charcter: is that he was a noxian warrior, he was extremely brave and hard to kill, he died, he got a monument. It's immensely shallow. Now for Renekton, while I like the direction that they went with his reworked lore, turning him into a tragic hero rather than essentially a rabid dog that tastes blood for the first time and goes feral, it also is very shallow.

Characters like Lee Sin, Karthus, Swain, Trundle. You understand their background, you know the character, ambitions, purpose, even methodology in some cases. It's not long in each case, but it has depth. This new stuff lacks depth, it's like they want to put out the bare minimum in order to give a taste of a character if you feel like bothering, but not enough to really satisfy you if you undertake the endeavor.

Now that I'm done with that rant, I'll say that I get it, I understand why. It's not worth the time. 90% of their playerbase if not more, will never read nor likely be interested in the lore. I can't tell you how many times I crack a lore-based joke in game and nobody in the lobby gets it leaving me looking like an idiot.

I agree with the guy below me, when they finally figure out what Evelynn is supposed to be and give her a real identity, I feel we will get a better glimpse into the shadow isles.

I have to admit I find the analysis of the ascension map interesting, however, with the way it's been going these days, I wouldn't be surprised if it had absolutely zero relevance to anything, and was just there because they felt it looked cool.