User blog comment:Scalec/I'd say I don't need help - but I'd be lion!/@comment-1674153-20151227230852/@comment-1674153-20151228090833

The inconsistency between the films and their original stories is really what I look for when I make these artifacts. I try my best to find artifacts and backstories that capture what make the movie and what made the original idea - John Smith actually did have a compass, which he used to impress the Powahtan tribe. And de Busbecq, like Pocahontas from the film, was adventerous and intelligent and broke many a cultural barrier. And similar to how the real Pocahontas was unable to ever return to her homeland when she was kidnapped, he was never able to come back to Turkey before the Warehouse moved four years later to India.

As far as Hercules goes, I don't even deign to call Hercules the story thereof - it's at its core a Superman movie, which is why I went with Cincinnatus as an artifact basis. So I didn't go with finding an artifact that explained the difference between Hercacles killing his family and Hercules becoming a hero - in fact, having a Roman artifact as the film's inspiring drive is what I believe caused our hero to be called by his Roman name instead of his Greecian one.