@saposcat@indieauthors.social I've been reading world mythology and folklore since I was ... 8ish? so 64 years at this point. Once I had a world that resembles ours on a memetic level but has a long history of being visited by entities from outside time and space, it seemed obvious that the Manifest and related entities would fill a lot of the 'supernatural entity' slots. (It's possible but not necessary that semantic echoes from there are responsible for some of our stories.) Details are still evolving.