The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Cyrus met priests of Marduk and accepted their account of Nabonidus's failures. He allowed the city to say its god had chosen him. Narseh watched the political wisdom of the gesture and felt the first discomfort of seeing a king become a vessel filled by every theology that needed him.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Historically anchoredThe setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and recurring characters are invented.
The Nabonidus Chronicle and Cyrus Cylinder describe Cyrus's conquest of Babylon and his restoration claims, though royal texts are ideological documents.
The movements and private conversations of Narseh, Yael, and Bel-iddin are fictional.