Lyte never left Riot. Odyssey is his psychology experiment.

Giving millions of people an arbitrary pile of conflicting goals and then throwing them all together? A maze mode with randomized mechanics that are occasionally "bugged," shiny rewards for enduring the frustration and working together (but only if the random mechanics are easy that time)... think about it. It all makes sense. Maybe he's using the data for his ninth Ph.D. Maybe he's working on a brand-new Honor system. Maybe Odyssey's lessons will show him the way to a better ranked queue.

Or... No! It can't be! It MUST be!

HE WILL SOLVE TOXICITY FOREVER! No more surrenders. No more flaming. No more AFKs. No more slurs. Everyone will play together in harmony.

One mind. One dream.

It is the only possible explanation. I have seen the Lyte.