The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Leontes, feverish but conscious, told them Alexander's men believed they were avenging earlier Persian invasions of Greece. Atar heard how old injury became permission for new injury. Each empire kept a book of wounds and read only its own pages.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Historically anchoredThe setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and recurring characters are invented.
Alexander defeated Darius III at Gaugamela in 331 BCE, accelerating the collapse of the Achaemenid Empire.
Atar, his sister Anahita, and their military roles are fictional.