41:8
“The next Keeper after Anahita was therefore Greek-born. Future storytellers who wanted nations arranged as good and evil would find the archive inconvenient. That was one of its purposes.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Interpretive reconstructionA documented text or tradition is interpreted through openly fictional scenes.
Historical anchor
Greek and Iranian populations interacted, intermarried, resisted, and adapted after Alexander; moral choices did not follow ethnic lines.
Fiction boundary
Leontes's later life and the refugee settlement are fictional.