A Direct Challenge to Riot's Lore Department
TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF RIOT'S LORE DEPARTMENT:
This is a direct challenge to your work as it stands.
I am weary of the silence. It has been months since the alleged "retcon" of League's lore was announced, and so far there has been a small handful of disconnected stories and no word on the status of the game's overall background lore.
This has to change. I'm tired of waiting, the community is tired of waiting, and even your own comrades at Riot are tired of waiting.
I post this challenge to you: give us the core basis for the new lore, or give us the old lore back.
I'm not asking for specific stories. I'm not asking for specific details. I want to know, once and for all, what you have come up with to replace the Institute of War, the League itself, and how we, the players, fit into the picture. You can make it as short or as long as you like, but it MUST cover these basics. You have had MONTHS to come up with this; if you truly have it, even in some half-complete state, then post it. Prove to us that you have not been idle.
If you cannot do this.....if you cannot give us even a brief, paragraph-sized summary of what the new lore is based around or upon, then revert the lore to what it once was and be done with it. Bring back the Institute of War and all that has already been done, officially and without caveat.
You may respond here, or in an official post of your own. The challenge is this: you have forty-eight hours to respond. If you can post this much on the new lore, I shall support the new lore to the fullest, and will call upon everyone else to do the same; if you cannot, or do not, then I call upon everyone here to do the exact opposite, and follow and support the old lore to the absolute exclusion of anything you have (or have not) yet come up with that does not support its existence.
To any Rioters not from the Lore department reading this: bring this to the attention of the Lore department immediately if you can. This involves the integrity of their jobs and the future of the game, and is not to be taken lightly.
You have forty-eight hours to respond. Don't keep us waiting.
