62:9
“Each rule traveled by a different route—south toward Egypt, west through Nabataea, north through Syria, and east again toward the schools that would outlive the first travelers.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Canonical alternate road + sacred fictionMatthew records the alternate road. The novel imagines that road becoming a disciplined network governed by seven ethical rules.
Historical anchor
Matthew says the Magi were warned not to return to Herod and departed by another road. The protective rules and later contact plan are fictional developments from that canonical alternate road.
Fiction boundary
The scraps, rules, hidden network, age-twelve return, and test of worship are invented for the narrative.