@Narrative: What are your plans for dealing with AUs?
The phrase "alternate universe" has been always used for skins now, so why am I bringing it up here right now? Because I wonder about Narrtive's stance on it when it comes to future lore and worldbuilding.
For a moment, let's go away from LoL and games and go to somewhere where worldbuilding is already done: comics. Whoever reads Marvel or DC will notice the appearance of different timelines and parallel worlds. Parellel Worlds are something that are like "what if we turn everyone into zombies and make a mini-series of it?" (marvel actually did that). At first it was more like a joke series. No one took it too seriously. But then, in ANOTHER series something crosses over from the zombie AU into the "real world" (Deadpools-Zombie-Head)... We have some skins that would fit into that category... (God, I would pay to see Coporate Mundo and Dr. Mundo meeting up - the conversation will be awesome xD)
Timelines are a bit more tricky, (DC seems to use them a lot...) mostly because they make things even more complictaed than intersecting worlds do. Also, we have some skins that would fit into this (The battlecast series + mecha + debonair + Fullmetal, That seem to be set in (a not so distant) possible future - also, ofc, pulsfire ezreal. )
I know they currently have their hand full with "normal" lore... but how high are the chances of skins getting involved into lore? (Not to mention that this could be used to promote new champs and skins too... looking back at the comics you can see that there are also characters that are in charge of "keeping things in order" - much like Bard, but with a different focus.
Of course not all skins are useable for this, but there are enough to make this one crazy story... I sense a lot of potential within that thought - although I doubt that this idea will be used anytime soon. After all narrative has a lot of more important problems to fix right now.
But I'm still curious about how you think about this...