User blog comment:Emptylord/Blogs/Where's the lore going?/@comment-13352843-20130806114957

Personally, I think that overall lore is going in the direction of PvM. Invasions of the Void, Shadow Isles, Swain's Noxus, Udyr's Temple from the SGU comic. From skin lore we can see that riot's exploring the idea of alternate universes - from that it is a short step into the future with the aid of the chronokeeper or something like that.

Champion interactions hinges on voiceovers and no one is going to be paying actors (who might not be available anymore) to get them to say 5-6 lines. Also, it takes planning relationships waaaay ahead. Not simple.

I am going to go ahead and do what everyone else has done and give my opinions on specific relations, though you can skip that as a redundancy:

Would have been nice to see the really ugly side of Demacia and some interesting and unusual in the current real-world political climate ugliness of Noxus. It is very unlikely that we will however. Demacia will be, despite everything, paragons of goodness and thuthiness and Noxus (and Zaun) - the unholy union of old-school german democracy and russian communism. Yay. After all lore is not the main focus of Riot - it is a hobby of theirs but not critical to their success.

Nasus might not want to kill his brother but he had come to terms with it since he was about to finish him when he was summoned. Unforturate, but he's an old creature - they do not change their decisions lightly.

TF himself might not be invested in killing Graves but that might change if (when) the latter will find blackmail on the former as is his stated intention - to ruin his "con", his reputation.

KaylexMorgana art... can be interpreted as an attempted save but I don't see. Looks like aerial combat. Morgana does not look like she extends her hand for help - she looks like she's trying to cast. Ditto Kayle.

Leona was to be executed because she refused to duel another "graduate". We are not told who was that. And it was not revealed if Diana dueled someone to prove herself an adult. Such a coincidence. Yeah. It is probable that they were friends, possibly relatives\sisters (in all but blood) and then they were to kill one another. It is probable that their "class" was designed in a way that by the end there was even number of them. And then Leona refuses to fight. How to resolve the conflict in a way that allows Diana to graduate? Quite simple - make her the executioneer. If she succeeds - cold blooded murder counts as a sufficient test of character and she's a good warrior regardless. If she fails - kill her too and problem's solved.

Then the divine intervention takes the decision from Diana's hands. And she's left with literally nothing. What were the elders supposed to do with her? They're strict traditionalists - every child must be tested before being admitted into the ranks. There were no sings from heavens for Diana. She's left in the limb.

Long story short - there could be a lot of bitter feelings there. It is not easy to surmount and it is not possible to ignore. And it's all mostly conjecture ^_^

Also, apologies to all of you, grammar nazies. Not a native speaker and would be interested in your corrections.