38:9
“A feast table was built over unnamed graves. Each year the music grew louder, because celebration sometimes fears the question buried beneath it.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Historically anchoredThe setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and recurring characters are invented.
Historical anchor
Esther 9 reports 75,000 enemies killed across the provinces; the text does not identify every victim as ethnically Persian, and the event lacks independent corroboration.
Fiction boundary
The gathering and Shirin's family stories are fictional.