Story Stagnation. What is present day Runeterra like? Will it Evolve?
@ any Rioters who will listen.
The new lore direction is causing Runeterra's lore to feel stagnant.
Under the new lore direction, Runeterra no longer feels like it is changing or evolving.
It feels stagnant. Nothing ever really changes, we just get new information about the state that it is in.
Heck, when a new champion is announced, the older champions seem to still keep doing what they did before (except when they are retconned), since our main/only source of lore are champion bio's these days.
While we still rarely hear about new champions that exist within Runeterra, when these champions do emerge, they usually just seem to be characters that were probably already there in the first place, that slot right into the world without upsetting the balance of power. We don't hear about older champions reacting/interacting with the new champions, rather, Runeterra's story is usually just changed to include them, rather than developed.
Runeterra doesn't necessarily evolve with the addition of new champions, usually we just learn more about what it already is/was.
Nothing new seems to have happened in Runeterra since the retcon.
It doesn't feel like any of the established characters ever have any development beyond their character bios anymore. The JoJ used to do this pretty well.
Will anything ever actually happen again in Runeterra? (not including retcons and lore additions? I'm talking lore development!)
and
from descriptive lore to TWO SENTENCE LONG BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS.
Why did Riot feel the need to gut so many of the champs' lore?