Loki and a few others got called to a meeting with the guy who ran it.

( so, yes. there was a lead. )

Kind of a dick from my understanding. But he told them that we, the Displaced, are God-touched. That this universe has a few gates leading into other universes, that the god-touched or gods created, and that the reason we've all got our special new abilities is because of these gods. Touching us or whatever. There's no evidence, Lo said that the guy's eccentric at best, but.