Thread:Per Ankh/@comment-30644608-20170227194120/@comment-1674153-20170228054349

We have the entirety of human history to work with, and the stories and conventions that build these fandoms are not entirely original. It's possible to find any number of inspiring historical events that can work with the fandom of choice. It's the reverse of what I did when I was building the Disney Vault.

Danny Phantom, for instance. You could use a suit from a 1940's WWII experiment on creating stealth soldiers that worked a little too well. Or maybe the diary of Alice Roosevelt, the last memory of his wife that Teddy Roosevelt just couldn't stand to get rid of. Or the Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment could have created an artifact that makes the user mimic a neutrino's intangibility. And this is not limited to the 20th century, there are a lot of ancient stories that could work here as nearly every culture has ghost stories. Athenodorus encountered a ghost, according to Pliny, that rattled chains so that his body could be found, cuffed in chains beneath a house. Those chains would be great artifact material. China's story of Tu Po could certainly inspire a vengeful ghostly artifact, likely his bow.