Board Thread:The B&B/@comment-24588058-20160430222659/@comment-24588058-20160502151027

Lost cities might just be artifacts. After all, who would think to look in a Warehouse in the middle of South Dakota for the lost city of Atlantis, right?

So, Draco, you are hypothesizing a little differently from me. You suggest that there is an artifact causing the suicides. I actually was on the thought path that it wasn't likely that there was an artifact (at least, not one that any Warehouse team ever found). However, since the forest attracts a lot of artifacts relating to suicide, they have a Regent posted there who finds those artifacts and sends them back to Warehouse 13.

Actually, that brings up a point I've been thinking about for some time now. The Agents and Caretakers who work at Warehouse 13 have to be from the host country. But do the Regents follow the same rules? I refer to the diversity of the Regents when we saw them in Breakdown (though I admit, the one Asian-looking guy could have been born in America), but more importantly, I refer to the Ancient Regent Sanctum. The Warehouse was never located in China; when the sanctum was built, it was during the reign of Warehouse 7 (Mongolia). Now I will admit that the Empire did expand to include all of China, so Hong-Kong isn't exactly out of reason. What I'm implying is that the Warehouse wanted people around the surrounding kingdoms to allow the collection of artifacts outside of the host country. This was more important in ancient times, as back then the Warehouse was unable to send people to the far off reaches of the world. However, it would still be smart in the present day; feasibly, you could have a Regent located in areas of the world that it is extremely hazardous to send Warehouse agents (like Iran or North Korea) to collect artifacts from those regions, and send them to a neutral spot where a second Regent could then send the artifact to the Warehouse.