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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want to go down a rabbit hole, Papal elections is as crazy as anything.

But realistically, Francis was ill for a while, and in 2025 the participants have full access to each other. They'd probably been discussing it for months before the actual conclave.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I loves me a good Pope War

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-mongoliad-book-one-greg-bear/8059232?ean=9781612182360&next=t

The Mongoliad. Book One of Three.

Two intersecting stories. A group of knights is travelling to Mongolia to assassinate the Great Khan. If the Khan dies all the Mongols in Europe will have to return home to elect a new leader. Meanwhile there's a Papal enclave that's been deadlocked for far too long.

Neil Stephenson is one of the writers, and it's as deep a rabbithole as any of his novels.