When is she actually going to get some lore and not that paragraph that can be best summed up in just being 'lolmysterious'. Maybe after Riot's done nerfing the ever-living hell out of her until she's as useless as Heimerdinger she'll actually get some lore.

17 years released in a faq book after the game has died

Sad thing is you're probably right.

They said they were working on remaking it back when the TT remake and altars and all that was released.
Dunno what the progress is though. We'll get it before March is done, I expect.