headcanon: Joseph Smith discovered a more efficient means of extracting mana, the LDS Church drew down the reserves of the...
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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)…
Oh yeah Gaiman was a big influence obvs, specifically that bit in Sandman with an emaciated Bast eking out survival on the prayers of bookish girls for their sick cats.