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How much fiction is in this series? Does it try to be historically accurate, or does it just take Khublai and transform him into something out of the writer's imagination? Thanks

All the King's Books It follows the big lines of history, but the author uses his own interpretation of events and especially in case of doubts he sometimes invents his ow…moreIt follows the big lines of history, but the author uses his own interpretation of events and especially in case of doubts he sometimes invents his own explanation because "if there are doubts, it means it's not sure and if it's not sure, who is to say my explanation isn't plausible?".
Certain characters are a mix of multiple real people, in order to keep the story clean and clear rather than a history lesson. So rather than introduce the multiple sons and grandson of Jochi, most of them are condensed into Batu for sake of simplicity. It's not a big issue, because Batu doesn't get much screentime anyway.

All in all, it's historical fiction which is relatively speaking quite true to the real story but features its amount of historical inaccuracies.(less)

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