I think your assumptions are reasonable. I never considered backtracking till it came up in play. I never considered having multiple character’s with the same title till Jackson Tegu  told me about his game with 2 golems and an apprentice. One golem was made by the magus and covered with these sweet runes, the other was made by the apprentice and was all jankey.

 I made a choice to not explicitly tell people some of those things so players could discover them for themselves.