Lord of Mysteries discussion and AMA*

[Dverin_Oshiban_Duren]

Ask me any* questions you have about the Lord of Mysteries novel, manhua or donghua (animation).
I can also try to avoid spoilers and customise the answer for you if you ask.

"Lord of Mysteries" a.k.a "Lord of the Mysteries" (诡秘之主) is a series written by author Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼) on Webnovel.
We call it LotM for short.

Genres: Mystery (obviously), Fantasy, isekai, historical (Victorian England setting with tons of research done by the author), Action, slice of life (especially in the early volumes where he is just living, doing his routine and eating food), eldritch horror (there are deities and other high level characters who are extremely powerful and they can even influence concepts)

WARNING: Since it is in the mystery genre, pretty much everything can be a spoiler.
Even the title of the book is a mystery (It is only revealed in Volume 7 about what a "Lord of Mysteries" is). The first page and every page of the wiki is a spoiler, the titles of some volumes are spoilers if you haven't read the preceding content, some of the art and memes you can find are spoilers, the map of the world has several major spoilers and if you translate my username you can get another spoiler.

I am hoping for questions about the story, pathways, sequences, abilities, power system, history, characters, organisations, deities, rituals, rules, artefacts, etc, what ifs or just basic stuff.
Maybe you could ask something to get yourself interested?

If you have already read or watched it or are in the process, start your post with where you are currently at.

My goal is to get people interested in what I am interested in and also to have fun.

*By "any", I meant the actual lore and writing of the series. We shall NOT discuss about the author's fetishes, understood? Also I don't know everything.

 

[BakedBanana]

Do you think the Lord of Mysteries MC would rather have cake or pie?

 

[mylovenovels]

Do you think the Lord of Mysteries MC would rather have cake or pie?

What if both

 

[Dverin_Oshiban_Duren]

Do you think the Lord of Mysteries MC would rather have cake or pie?

In the novel, the MC likes pie from Desi bay and dislikes food with too much sugar.

This just means he prefers pie over cake.
But he likes delicacies so if it is some special cake then he would try it.

I am eating fried banana right now.

 

[yogurtman250]

Honestly, I'm quite surprised you have the guts to make an AMA before you even hit 100 messages here.

Is it Yuri or yaoi?

 

[Dverin_Oshiban_Duren]

Honestly, I'm quite surprised you have the guts to make an AMA before you even hit 100 messages here.

Is it Yuri or yaoi?

How should I put it....?
It kinda has all of it though most of it is not on-screen.

The novel itself is not erotic, it's just that a lot of weird stuff happens.
The animation also has some good frames.

There is:

Spoiler: Content

Normal sex (implied).
Cheating (one guy is found dead after doing the deed; another caught on camera; one guy writes his casanova deeds in his diary and it is circulated throughout the continent).
Wet dreams (one is a premonition of danger and the other is mentioned in a funny scene).
Yuri (not really, it's more like sisterhood and one lesbian cop who likes big pairs).
Yaoi (not really, this is mostly generated by the fandom but there are a few gay characters).
Genderbending (this is an important for part of the plot; m2f and f2m included and most of it is in book 2).
There is one artefact—A mirror that can answer questions in exchange for answering one it's questions and it often exposes people's sexual desires and orientation.
Also some characters can make anything pregnant and some others can make anybody want to get pregnant.
Crossdressing (for serious purposes of course).
Mpreg (book 2 only, major threat).
Some characters can change their gender at will.
There is a pathway dedicated for seduction ("The taste of a demoness ain't bad.")
Enslavement (Pulling the soul out of an individual to enslave them, not really used).
Mind control (I don't think this is ever used in an erotic way, but there are several ways to control other people in the story).
There are multiple organisations whose entire motto is "Be freaky".
There is this one guy who is a weaker and French-ish version of Jeffrey Ep$+e1n.
Some characters have multiple bodies and 'They' might have given birth to themselves.
Some characters are the literal embodiments of degeneracy, fertility, pregnancy and horniness.

There is actually a lot more things that are super weird if you think about it. Like giving birth to a child who IS the parent, evil deities trying to kill people and take over them by impregnating people, talking to an unborn foetus and making it do child labour, etc

Dang, that's a lot.

Wait, didn't I specifically request not to ask about this? Ah, whatever.

Sorry I am not aware of all the customs here. I would be thankful if you could like give me a list of all the basics under my profile, senior.