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In order to create credible and complex characters within a historical setting, the author must present real places, where the characters develop their story, in addition the author must point out events that happened in the real world, as a way of leaving his characters associated with the world in that we live and identifiable as a realistic and well-built action, with all the complexes that the human being presents.