I've always been curious about if jesus or mohammed or moses or siddartha and all those people actually existed, like in a non-religious sense... and I'm curious if you maybe came across anything about this when you were doing your hotewig research?
i think some of those might have better records than others, but i generally would assume they are all based on someone. then over centuries the legends grow and grow and then eventually get bought by disney and become immortalized for eternity