User blog comment:TheWarrior29/10 Strange things in the Visual Guide/@comment-1984959-20140414035318/@comment-1984959-20140414142711

''Yeah i agree. I just wanted to show some intersting things. The Tia Dalma/Will Turner thing was just something kind of ironic considering Will's fate.''
 * Oh, another theory of the Tia/Will bit is that Tia was "charmed" by meeting the one who would become captain of the Dutchman. It's possible that they intended it from the beginning. Who knows?

I wasn't talking about it as Why this is non-canon but stuff that is strange. And POTC is a world of the strange so i guess it fits.''
 * I know, it's just some folks take one or two probable inaccuracies and immediately bash the Visual Guides as non-canon. On one hand, it is reasonable, but at the same time it's a contradiction. Either way, it's a weird situation.

The only information I can say for a fact it's wrong is that Jack got his compass from Tia Dalma seven years earlier(presumably a few years after Barbossa's mutiny). However, if you listen to the audio commentary from The Curse of the Black Pearl DVD, you'd learn that Jack had the compass by the time the mutinous crew was recruited... this is further confirmed (canonically, anyway) in The Price of Freedom, where Jack already had the compass in possession. Another one I just recalled was Davy Jones described as having black eyes. In terms of the films, yes, it's incorrect... but it was how Davy Jones was originally described in the Dead Man's Chest screenplay.