The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Atar and Anahita carried bundles through smoke while roof beams cracked. A Macedonian soldier blocked the stair. It was Leontes, scarred from Gaugamela. He recognized the seal and led them through a service passage.”
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 occupied and burned Persepolis; motives and circumstances are debated, and later Zoroastrian tradition remembered him as a destroyer of religion.
The rescue of the Keeper archive and the exact library fire are fictional; claims of Avesta destruction belong to later tradition and are labeled as such.