Talk:Basileus/@comment-107.77.87.56-20150301230807/@comment-43905390-20200525142627

@Aggression25: It's never mentioned, either in the film or in its first draft. In the first draft of the script, it was mentioned that he was burned to death for writing the Arcanum, but in canon, we learn basically nothing else about Basileus, other than the fact that he never actually built the machine. That could be because he didn't want to make it (if he was freed of his possession, he might have viewed it as something terrible that should never be brought into the world), because he tried but died before he could, or because it was impossible with 15th century technology. Cyrus' version is almost definitely heavily modernized compared to the design in the Arcanum, and Cyrus' decision to use it as a house probably required some modifications, but the design could still require things that didn't exist six centuries ago.