Talk:The Mask of Appolitis/@comment-28380995-20161005202800/@comment-16533050-20161005203952

It's like where a movie or semi-fictional novel is written, and usually some events are fictionalized or made more grandiose. Like the 300 movies. Both are based on actual events, but I'm pretty sure that's not how they happened.

Also, there are often times when the names of places and people are changed, like for example with the 1975 movie The Hindenburg. The dirigible crashed, but not like it was shown there, and nearly all of the characters are based off real people.

I'm assuming the latter case with Appolitis. It's probably a real place that was renamed for sake of the book.