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The Piltover Map's rendition of Bilgewater doesn't match Bilgewater from the Harrowing map.

Solideus··2 votes·875 views

Is the map from the Harrrowing just not cannon anymore? The coast and islands of Bilgewater visible on the Piltover Map don't match the Harrowing map at all.

7 Comments

Tesla Effect2 votes

Thats because its a stylised map closely inspired by real world maps from past eras, where they werent completely accurate down to the smallest land shapes.

Solideus1 votes

That's self-evident, don't be condescending, haha.

None of the features line up, such as the cove Bilgewater is in or any of the islands depicted. Take a gander & compare yourself.

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

New lore trumps old lore. Don't think Riot planned out the old BW map well.

GreenLore2 votes

In the end the arrow that points to piltover is just slightly off,which could easily be explained by the incarruracy of the one who made the map. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/special-event/first-light-after-harrowing http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/piltover/medarda-heirloom

Solideus1 votes

That's not it. The cove where Bilgewater is located just isn't there on the old Harrowing map, and none of the islands' features line up.

GreenLore1 votes

The coves aren't there because the map simply doesn't go any further than Bilgewater.

And I'm not even sure if that is supposed to actually be Bilgewaters islands behind the Bilgewater symbol,it looks more like part of the symbol,similar to how we don't see any part of the shadow isles.

Meep Man2 votes

The Bilgewater Harrowing map doesn't stretch far enough to show anything other than Bilgewater and the Piltover map doesn't stretch far enough to show all of Bilgewater. Not to mention the Bilgewater map was dedicated to tracking the Harrowing so it's only focus is Bilgewater and Harrowing related entities so adding other things to it would be unnecessary. Plus, this is way back in the day. Remember that they don't have planes and all kinds of bird eye view technology to create maps. These guys are making maps entirely on foot. I would trust the Piltover map more since they at best have zeppelins or something like that.

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