Events and Lore: Linked No Longer!

So recently, like a couple of hours ago, an announcement was made that things are going to be de-synced when it comes to events in the future, in particular seasonal events like the Harrowing, Snowdown and Lunar Revel. The component parts are getting disconnected.

This means that when the Harrowing comes around next year, it will still be the Harrowing, but instead of having skins, game modes, lore and whatever else tied together, they'll be separate. There will still be holiday content, like skins and what have you, but they'll be made for the season, and not necessarily linked to a huge event.

For lore this is kind of a big deal, because lore is getting broken away from its event tie-ins. No longer will lore be constrained to events and holidays; it can be put out at whatever time Riot wants, as its own separate thing. Ant in Oz explains in the linked thread that Harrowings can happen at any time in universe, so while we ARE getting lore for this Harrowing at Halloween time, future Harrowings won't necessarily be like that, and could be in November. Or March. Or June.

I figured it'd be best to bring this to attention, even if it isn't super crazy "OMG SHIT'S GOING DOWN" news, because I feel like the whole "lore is bound to events" thing has been a concern for many, and now Riot's come out and said "this won't be a problem anymore". So take of this what you will lore fans!

EDIT: As an additional note; this doesn't mean these things won't be tied together ever again, but instead that they don't have to be, so now if Narrative's doing a lore thing about say...Demacia, the skins team can go "Hey, we wanna join in! Guys, let's concept some Demacia skins!" and the map team can go "Oh come on we want in too! Guys, we're making a Demacian Murder Bridge!". This is in contrast to before, where these things were sorta forced to be together. Now they're free!