The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Later Zoroastrian memory would call Alexander accursed and accuse him of scattering sacred learning. Other Iranian traditions would reshape him differently. Atar needed no perfect tradition to name what he saw: a conquered civilization's heart made spectacle.”
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.