Wait a second. CarnivalKnights is TommyGnox? (Edit: Nevermind, I'm wrong. But hey! Star Wars!)

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I went to get a screenshot of TommyGnox's announcement of the much-derided Great Retcon, when I noticed a striking change: the comment was attributed to "CarnivalKnights".

Talk about a Harrowing scare.

EDIT: TerraRising has set me straight on this count. I misremembered: I thought TommyGnox had posted that much-hated comment, but it actually was CarnivalKnights after all. CarnivalKnights is not TommyGnox, as dramatic as that would have been. It was all just a bad dream, the nightmare before Snowdown.

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"That is Riot's League of Legends. Not as generic or bland as the new Runeterra. A clever excuse plot, from a more interesting time."

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WELCOME TO SUMMONER'S RIFT!

"For over a thousand generations (of very short-lived creatures), the League of Legends was the guardian of peace and justice in Valoran. Before the dark times. Before the Retcon."

"How did the lore die?"

"A young Rioter named TommyGnox. A Summoner himself, before he turned to evil. He betrayed and murdered the lore. TommyGnox was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force a bunch of really stupid arguments about how the League had to be all-powerful and Summoners were puppetmasters instead of allies to Champions."

"What was the League of Legends?"

"Well, the League was what gave the game a backstory, and the universe some cohesion. It brought players into the story as Summoners, and created a sense of immersion. In-universe, it was a supranational entity founded to hear international disputes and enforce the laws of war. Sometimes it was used as an alternative to war, and sometimes it simply struggled to contain conflicts and prevent their unchecked escalation. It was a meeting place for people of all nations. It gave Champions from faraway places a reason to interact, and bound the universe together."

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"Yes! The lore's strength flows from the community! But beware the Retcon."

"Is the Retcon better?"

"No. Quicker, easier, more seductive. But once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did TommyGnox."

"So are you like a yordle, or what?"

"Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions."

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"With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring greater marketability to our product."

"I'll never join you!"

"If you only knew the power of the Retcon. … Obi-Wan never told you what happened to the lore."

"HE TOLD ME ENOUGH! HE TOLD ME YOU KILLED IT."

"Yes. And now I'm controlling the Narrative department."

"But you're not even at Riot anymore! You haven't posted in ages! It's all CarnivalKnights, and he seems okay!"

"No. I am CarnivalKnights."

"That's not true. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Search the Dev Blog. There's a screenshot that proves this is true."

"…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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"Why didn't you tell me?"

"When TommyGnox became CarnivalKnights, he started actually talking to the community, even though Narrative is still way behind the rest of Riot on that. So when I said TommyGnox wasn't around anymore, what I told you was true…from a certain point of view."

"A certain point of view?!"

"Specifically, a completely inaccurate and misleading point of view, but yes."