Ah, now there you're in luck. Thorne seems to give the gods very little credit. There is almost no scholarship which references them whatsoever.

[Which is strange; ordinarily one might expect even the most serious library to have a few dozen pieces discussing the link between the arcane studies and theological ones.

From where he has settled against his own patch of wall, the cane carrying man's attention shifts up and over in Sam's direction. Grows more intent, like the turn of a knife from edge to point.]

How are they summoned? Where you come from.

['Not like this,' he'd said.]