Okay, I'm going to assume I'm free to discuss this now, since the official announcement of Dominion being removed is up.

I was told about this happening by my interviewer over a week ago. The reason I was told was because it was for a writing position, and my writing samples had revealed that was my favourite champion and I often wrote about him on reddit and so on. This is no surprise if you look at my post history.

During our conversation, the interviewer revealed that with the removal Dominion i.e. Kalamanda, all the lore leading up to it or because of it may be removed as a result as well. This would then potentially affect , , and to an extent 's lore as well.

I was posed the question with that as a springboard - What would I do to fill the lore void for ?

At that time, they said I didn't have to give an actual story, just a starting point. I said that if you were taking away lore, you had to give something back. A good starting point IMO was to explore an aspect of Swain's backstory that remains a mystery but is a substantial part of his character - What exactly is the raven as an entity and as a form of power?

In addition, I suggested that they tie-in the destruction/removal of Dominion into an actual in-lore event, that way most of the lore can be preserved with no voids.

However, this was all assuming that the removal of Dominion wouldn't be this soon. I thought it would be done later, which would give Riot a chance to incorporate the Swain remake, which would let them re-write his lore much more easily.

Right now, there's quite a bit of possible repercussions with the removal of Dominion/Kalamanda, and its lore:

1. The conflict over Kalamanda was a VERY important political point for Swain to use to garner support to himself away from Boram Darkwill (the previous Grand General of Noxus). He was effectively "the only active General on an actual battlefield" when he went to Kalamanda to assert Noxus claim over Kalamanda.

2. As recent as the remake, the promo of which featured a conversation between and , it has been confirmed that impersonated at Kalamanda, where he was noted to be "acting out of character" the whole time. She then 'attacked' Swain without provocation, which made Noxus into the 'innocent defending party' when the fighting broke out.

3. The furor over Kalamanda led to Boram leaving Noxus for the first time in decades. When out, he was said to have been 'assassinated', and thus the position of Grand General was free when Swain returned to Noxus.

4. In the final Journal of Justice, Swain challenged Boram's remaining son Keiran to a duel, and won. That's what we see in the final issue of the Journal, and this is when his Tyrant Swain skin has been released.

With the removal of Dominion/Kalamanda, does this mean all this didn't happen? I hope not, it's a waste of a good plotline which features a cool mix of tactics and politics, and one that Riot was holding to at least as recently as Sion's remake.

The thing is that I believe the lore can still stand without the Summoners being involved. They came in and froze Noxus and Demacia and stopped them from continuing the fight. However, it's easy to just say the two factions fought to a standstill, and Kalamanda was ripped apart into Dominion as it is. And now you can just say Dominion got too unstable and blew up.

Will we get something better to fill the lore void? I really doubt we can. has one of the most complete character arcs in the entire game that took _YEARS _ to complete. I'd really hate to see the final stretch of all his efforts just being up and gone.

And we'd probably have no solid answers for at least a year-and-a-half when his remake hits.