User blog comment:Reilock/Riots new Lore Direction: Rant/@comment-1330314-20140925041111

I think the current state of the lore is a bit like the state of League's current champion roster (or even its item collection): some parts are new and shiny and awesome, and others are just super-antiquated and make so little sense in the game now that they just need to be swept under the rug until they get overhauled. On top of this, these old elements are a problem as long as they exist, and until they get dealt with the rest isn't going to advance as easily. The Freljord Saga was the first major step towards a new take on the lore, and from what it seems most big revisions to the lore will come in the form of city-state-based events. Right now things are a little weird because the lore's in this state of doublethink where summoners and the Fields of Justice and whatnot are mentioned, but the League of Legends as an entity isn't canon, and while that's bad, that's not likely to stay that way either. It would make no sense for the new Summoner's Rift to have so much history and trivia embedded into the map and then not tie it into the new lore, so hopefully we should be having a clearer view of the new lore soon enough.

Thoughts on your questions:
 * It's likely the fall of Shurima didn't kill literally everyone in the city-state (, and  survived fine, at any rate), so whichever woman had a child with  likely survived to carry on his bloodline.
 * I don't think the Ascension map was specifically meant to be the Crystal Scar, even if it's a modified version of it. The state of the Crystal Scar itself is fuzzy, however, since the Kalamanda incident is heavily linked to the Institute of War.
 * It's very likely and  got a lore update that Riot hasn't yet decided to share in great detail (which makes the timing of their inclusion in the Shurima event a little weird). Skarner's probably getting a new lore because the Crystal Scar and Kalamanda are too much a part of the Institute of War canon, and Rammus has no real lore to speak of.
 * 's insanity looks both incurable and self-reinforcing: every move makes would only enrage him further and cause him to kill more innocents in his way, so the only real recourse Nasus has is to stop his brother once and for all.
 * The story isn't being stopped so much as being re-established. It's likely the addition of new content will advance certain champions' storylines along the way.
 * isn't that bad a character in terms of lore. Sure, he's not as mind-blowingly awesome as, but his story makes sense, and he has a clear theme as a walking retro space-age "Man of Tomorrow" billboard. He also has a lot of parallels with Viktor: both embrace technology, futurism and, to varying degrees, transhumanism, and actually have similar goals, but have very different approaches.