Is it possible? Golarion is cyclical, and it seems to be heading for another golden age of magic and wonder. People are finding more and more ancient artifacts and lost texts, and gleaning eldritch knowledge from them. Is it possible that someday soon a wizard will unlock the secrets of the runes once again, resurrect Lissala, and recreate the power of the runelords?
Anything is possible if you want it in your campaign. And Sin Magic has already been rediscovered by a dedicated few, not to mention the Cyphermages.
I don't know that Lissala is necessary, but she's not definitively noted as dead, I don't think.
One final thing: some of those Rune Lords that are still around might have something to say about an upstart that decided to claim their title from them. Then really interesting fireworks will fly.
Neat idea!
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Wayfinder #7 had an article on how to run Rise of the Runelords as an evil AP. In this version, the PCs are trying to defeat Karzoug in order to claim the power of the Runelords for themselves.
In my campaign the awakening (or return) of Lissala to Golarion is sort of an underlying current. Her unwitting agents? Bladebound Magi (the Black Blades are her creations). First order of business: Eliminate the heretical Runelords who perverted her runes for their own gratification. Her attention has been drawn back to Golarion by the awakening of Karzoug who is her first unwitting target.
If your interested in the story tie in check out Rise of the runelord-a tale on the blogs for how it begins.
In terms of balance, the 'rise' of new sin Runelords could be counterbalanced by new virtues as well.
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In our Skull and Shackles campaign, I'm playing a Greed Wizard/eventual cyphermage. He's a pirate from Riddleport and his eventual goal is to seize the city from overlord Cromacky and make it a new Xin-Shalast.
He takes the remainder off every loot haul and generally acts like a greedy bastard, but as our cleric of Besmara puts it, "Vicenzo is evil, but he's evil in a really predictable way, which kind of makes him easier to trust than a person with morals."
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I am frankly a little at a loss where you get your information from - Golarion seems not to be cyclical to me. At least, there has been no recurring meteor strikes, but a singular age of darkness. Empires rose and fell, but there has been no clear "Wheel of time" repetition. If nothing else, the whole "Age of Lost Omens" nixed any pre-ordained sequence of events.
Thassilons legacy is stirring, that is true - but what use the dead nation's secrets will be put to is depending on current events.
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It's (relatively) easy to become a runelord, be an appropriate sin wizard and the defeat the current runelord of that sin.