Originally posted by: Armu4eva
Amish has written a novel Suheldev. It's based on actual events but the hero of the novel is a fictional character based on real events. That was my limited context.
I understood your point that's what I said that Mahabharata the war the characters has been documented at various places. Mahabharata had been found across country. The historians agree to that war itself not places.
Yes Ghaznavi's attack isn't debated so is the case with the Mahabharata war. The difference being that Ghaznavi came only 1000 years back, Mahabharata happened at least 3000 years back, obviously they would be more uncertainty of the the latter.
Anyhow I made this example to show that historical characters are heroes or villians as per afflictions, but fictional characters are fixed to be hero or villian, just like Harry potter wouldn't be a villian anywhere nor would Voltemor be a hero, but Duryodhan does become heroic for the Odhiyas, just because according to their history he is their son in law (affliction), hence the occurrence needs to be real
(by the way Suheldev wouldn't mention the name of Mizoram's then king right?)