Perhaps I just hallucinated this and tbh that’s what it feels like at this point, I can’t remember who posted it but there was like a drabble from one of the actors for Ghost or something (making it debatable at least partially canon) about Terzo in his Cardinal days and he was a wild frat boy who loved partying and cream pies. I specifically remember he was “rumored to eat 666 portions a year” of cream pies. PLEASE do you have it
It was Zbigniew Bielak, the guy who does their artworks! In the past, he was credited as Bishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis (a play on an actual title in the Polish Catholic church - metropolita krakowski), which technically made him part of the fictional lore, and he did one or two interviews "in character." There was one where he talked about Papa II, but I have it in print somewhere at home. I'll try to dig it up when I'm there next week.
This text was posted on Ghost's official FB page sometime in 2015 before the release of Meliora - I tried looking for a source link but FB is a nightmare to navigate, if someone has it please share!
To accompany the long awaited release of Ghost's Meliora cover art, you are invited to enjoy a few words of recollection from Bishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis II below, where he touches upon origins of current visual propaganda and more. Archival photographs of the artist at work are an additional treat, so share this rare intimate insight into 'Meliora's becoming!
Bp. Necropolitus Cracoviensis remembers:
"...our relationship goes a long way back to the times before his papacy, that is when he was still a cardinal in my hometown, in Cracovia...(...) Although we had our share of juvenile recklessness - be it indulging his beloved cream pies - allegedly verging on six hundred sixty six portions a year but that must be a rumor I believe, or wild parties at the attic of seminary school (laughs) - even in his formative years, he remained a focused man of vision, looking far into the future, always addressing his people's needs and longings to keep our church together in those turbulent, rapidly changing times (...) there were so many temptations to syndicate among our good people (...)
(...) We would sit down to studying exciting Futurist manifestos, sketched the blueprints of utopian metropoles, spiked with shiny skyscrapers stabbing at the heavens belly... Wantonly swollen zeppelins would to carry our gospel of indulgence to the farthest corners of the globe to summon and enslave. (...) Forged in nostalgia of steam and fire, this brave new world of ambition, vice, lust and greed - all so inherent to the enlightened modernity, was always with him through all these years. And it is now - when our church continues to grow stronger and wealthier under wise reign of Papa Emeritus III - that these visions may finally be witnessed and embraced in the preachings of 'Meliora' - his most contemporary and humane Encyclical."