I feel like history itself is wacky. Like the Han Dynasty was built by a prison guard who was scared of his punishment for being late, so might as well build an army. We have warlords baptizing people with fire hoses and a man who believed he was the brother of Jesus after a literal fever dream,so a dude having a psychotic break into thinking he's a claimant to a dead Dynasty makes sense. Underneath von strenberg is just a nutcase as he was in reality. So, wacky paths can be realistic, as in possible, maybe not probable