headcanon: Joseph Smith discovered a more efficient means of extracting mana, the LDS Church drew down the reserves of the...
headcanon: Joseph Smith discovered a more efficient means of extracting mana, the LDS Church drew down the reserves of the Burned-Over District and then (with the Azusa Street Revival, Taos mystics, and LA neospiritualists) drained the American Southwest and now is powered mostly by the extensive reserves of the Pacific islands
This sounds like it would be a good story. Develop it.
“story”?
Seriously, though, I’ve had a few universes in my head that might fit into. That pilot I mentioned was for sort of a Xena of the Americas - all the history and mythology mashed together. (Don’t know the native mythologies that well so it mostly would be settler mythologies OF the native mythologies) The migration of African gods with the slaves, the Mormon stories about Jesus in the Americas, the challenge of enlightenment rationalism.
Also since this was 2009 it had zombies (Baron Samedi), pirates (the protagonists) and steampunk elements (Freemasons).
Also I’ve had ideas for stories of the Wandering Jew, who’s actually a North African tribesman whose beloved was sacrificed to a river god, rebelled, and made it his mission to kill all gods, complicated by the fact that by now he essentially is the god of toolmaking and humanity. Jahweh’s his great enemy and a lot of the shit that falls on Jews was his devising, to attack God’s power base. He’s the one who gave Hitler the Spear of Destiny for example, because after all he *was* Longinus.