Camille, and her effect on Viktor's lore

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With Camille being a cyborg, let’s look into how that reflects on Viktor’s lore and the lore regarding techmaturgy in general.

First thing’s first, Viktor is not the first person in history of Valoran to use augments. That said, augments are still a relatively new thing. Viktor was a student of the prestigious College of Techmaturgy in Zaun, and that’s where he first learned about augments. Proof of this is the fact that professor Pididly, who stole his designs, was even able to make sense of them (although rather poorly), and use them to reconstruct Urgot. Pididly was already acquainted with prosthetics. But Viktor’s prosthetics **are the best in the world. **

Viktor only recently emerged with his prosthetics. He is not ancient history, otherwise he wouldn’t be relevant now. Another proof of this is Riot’s statement that Valoran is right now at a turning point, when hyper-advanced technology is being invented. If Viktor were ancient news, we would be looking at a Project universe right now, which we know is not the case. He isn't some thousand-year old gramps with obsolete technology.

Camille’s hextech legs look distinctly Piltovian. It is possible that Piltovian scientists also independently work on prosthetics, just like many Zaunite scientists do. We can assume that there’s only a handful of augmented Piltovians though. Perhaps less then.. five? Because in her lore, it is stated that other Piltovians are not sure about her using augments. In this theory, us lore fans can decide on our own who we think has better augments.

A different possibility would be that the Piltovian government (or someone up top) also stole some of Viktor’s designs and gave them to Piltovian researchers to develop their versions, because they saw their potential. This keeps Viktor’s lore logical and his tech relevant. “If you’re gonna steal, steal from the best!” This also enforces Viktor's image as the wronged brilliant scientist.

That’s why Camille’s augments look distinctively Piltovian, as opposed to Viktor’s. This would also explain why Camille treats Viktor as if “his evolution is no longer needed, it is surpassed”. It is as if she was told that her augments are an improved version of Viktor’s!

The theory that Viktor works with the Pilties doesn’t hold water because if it were true, Camille’s legs would be 100 times more functional and not pretty - they’d look like Viktor’s augments; and also Camille wouldn’t be treating him like dirt if he collaborated with her bosses.

Camille worked for Piltover as an agent long before she got her augments. It is most likely that she only got them recently.

As for the augmented Zaunite thugs and barons? As I’ve said before, there are many researchers who provide the services of augmentation, particularly in Zaun, not just Viktor. We know from Evelynn’s colour text that baron Takeda and his thugs got their augments from Singed. Singed most likely collaborates with some other prosthetics experts, as these augments were used in tandem with some chemicals, Singed’d field of expertise. Viktor wouldn’t allow some mixing with chemicals. He wants full-machine.

That also explains why Camille beat those thugs and baron Marko Volkage easily - they were using someone else’s augments. If they had been using Viktor’s augments, they would have been much harder to defeat. He is a champion for a reason.

With Camille and Viktor, we see two champions with cutting-edge technology (one possibly a plagiarism of the other), battle for whose is the best.

TL;DR

Either Viktor's and Camille's augments are from two separate sources, cutting - edge technology (now you decide on your own who you think has the better augments),

or Camille's augments were made by Piltovians who reworked Viktor's stolen designs and thus made poorer versions

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