User blog comment:A.Darkbloom/Institute of War/Summoners/etc no longer being canon/@comment-7709681-20140905232420

I have ambivalent feelings about what that Blog provides us.

First off, if you are too lazy to read that Blog, then the following could be your "TL;DR":

Second, what I like and dislike:
 * The Institude of War, the Summoners and the Fields of Justice still exist for us players, but for the game's lore aren't canon.
 * Anything directly connected to the aforementioned will have its history altered, for the sake of changes, be this maps, champions or items.
 * The Journal of Justice is partially non-canonnical, only the parts in which the aforementioned commit intervention will be changed, in result of the aforementioned point; however, is possible that Riot wants to completely invalidate it.
 * The League's Judgement of all champions that possess one are invalidated with these changes.
 * If you got scared about the diminute, single paragraph lores that recently came out, its reasonable, as this were the result of the PBE client not tolerating more content on the Lore section of the champions; what they, Riot, wants is to change all champion's lore pages with those minuscule lores and put the more extended version of them (Or their existing ones for the matter) into the LoL's website.
 * The aforementioned will be way to go for the champions to come, aswell as giving the Lore Department the task of doing this with the already existing champions.
 * The sole reason of why we didn't hear anything from the Lore Department was because they didn't wanted to say anything that wouldn't become true or wouldn't result as they wanted, and this Dev. Blog is they breaking their silence and explaining themselves.
 * Summoner's Rift will maintain his name despite the changes, just because.

There still is something that, until these days, I don't understand: If we receive a complete analysis on champion's rework, such as which is the direction it takes the rework, examples of the planned, now proposed changes and even open questions for everyone to answer about what is that which attract them into the champion's gameplay: Why can't Riot offer us to have such things for the lore, instead of responding with "Soon(tm)" or "Trust us", then retconning everything and expecting to not receive backlash nor face it?
 * 1) PROS.:
 * 2) * Champions' lore that, despite being of our likeness or not, could be considered inconclusive, close-ended or with vague developement will be attuned to become open and hopefully expandable.
 * 3) * Champions that the community has asked for further developement on their lore, such as Yasuo's journey to seeks his master's assassin, will be done.
 * 4) * Lore events, such as patches centered around a faction or nation (E.g.: Frejord, Shadow Isle and recently Shurima) and those about direct conflicts (E.g.: The old Noxus vs. Ionia event), will become hopefully frequent.
 * 5) * Despite our likeness or dislike, the Lore does actually need an update.
 * 6) * The Lore Department apparently does actually exist and isn't as dead as we thought, probably alive due to necromancy.
 * 7) CONS.:
 * 8) * Not a single one of the points I mention in Pros. is valid, despite Riot saying that those things will be done, until actual results are given.
 * 9) * Officially none of our decitions in-game matter, the player's involvement inside the game's lore (The Summoners) is eliminated.
 * 10) ** More or less and lorewise, the game will become something similar to the Super Smash Brothers series: The characters have their own universe in which they develope, and what we play is nothing but an excuse to have them together for our own amusement.
 * 11) * Officially the game is now a spin-off about a developed story (Or even I dare to say a bunch of fan-fictions), since the narrative device (The Institude of War, house of the League of Legends) used to make partially cohesive stories and its characters to be together with a partially sensical reason, despite how positive or negatives are their relationships and specially when they're on the same team, no longer exists.
 * 12) ** With this narrative weakness that they are now creating they are losing the opportunity of mending themselves by creating a new, less "limiting" one (E.g.: The League has failed its duty of bringing order into Valoran, now the Institute of War has perished and a new Rune War has unleashed, with every known and unknown hell gone loose; now you, a being of this failed system that still has faith in his duty, where will you stand?)
 * 13) * A high amount of items (E.g: Ionian Boots of Ludicity, Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass), maps (Actually just the Crystal Scar, A.K.A.: Dominion) and mostly champions will need to have their background partially if not completely reworked.
 * 14) ** Until actual changes are implemented, champions with direct relationship with Summoners (E.g.: Jax, Kayle and Lee Sin), that are result of summoners (E.g.: Nocturne and Fiddlesticks), that are restrain by summoners (E.g.: Brand, Cho'Gath, Kog'Maw, Renekton and Xerath) and that live on the Insititute (E.g.: Allistar, Amumu, Nasus and Ryze) are cannonically invalidated.
 * 15) * Ironically, they're eliminating the sole reason from which the game is named after (The League of Legends).