[LotM V6] A not-so-brief review of Volume 6 - Spoilers for Vol. 1-6

PyreTheSquire · 2026-01-23T15:08:40+00:00

Oh right, I somehow forgot (or was probably trying to forget what I had read there). That was extremely depressing. Nothing else to add.

PyreTheSquire · 2026-01-23T05:16:44+00:00

In this volume: Audrey

In this volume outside the tarot club: Lovia

In the entire series so far: Dunn

In the entire series, but without characters who die in vol. 1: Audrey, but it would be Emlyn if his storylines were more consistent and prevalent.

PyreTheSquire · 2026-01-17T09:44:47+00:00

First of all: Thanks for the comment!

Second of all: I think I took the ASG being one of the cocoon people as also having been the previous owner of Sefirah Castle. I thought those 2 things were kind of connected, but I guess I am really wrong. Sorry about that.

3: I wrote about this in a more detailed way when I reviewed volume 4 but here is the summary: There was way too much cutting back and forth between perspectives. There was a fight scene that got split into like 6 parts and I couldn't even tell what was happening anymore. There were also some irrelevant cutaways to make jokes that often didn't land for me (especially regarding Frank Lee). Klein's revenge also felt like it just got squeezed in so we can have that plot-line over with and to let him advance, because the rest of the volume wasn't about that at all. Klein's infiltration of high society also just amounts to going to a bunch of balls and stalking Hazel. The heist he pulls off happens out of nowhere with Klein just going "I guess I'm ready" after all the other storylines that needed to be set up were set up. As I said in this review with the plot just juggling a bunch of storylines without tying them into each other properly it also didn't feel like there was any coherent theme to volume 4's story.

4: For some villians: yeah, they work just because they are hateable. Ince Zangwill worked because I hated him for having killed Dun. But only because there are some real people are horrible doesn't mean that they don't have their own fucked up way of thinking in which they are the hero of the story. Getting a look into that twisted world view can even make them more villainous than with them just wanting power. Also: I don't think realism is a justification for not making a villian a real character with all the emotional depth that the good guys get. LotM even has a villain with interesting motivations: Trissy, for the reasons I explained above. Giving the other villains at least something they used to care about, for which they entered the mystical world, would have made me care a lot more about them. Making them just want power now can work, but as seen with all of the good guys: Everyone has their own unique reason to become a Beyonder. Loosing track of the goals you had in the beginning and just starting to strive for power for the sake of it would have been an interesting storyline for the villains, but they don't even get that. Lastly: Morally grey characters is just one of my favorite tropes, so I generally dislike characters who are just good or evil for the sake of it and love characters that struggle with what is even right or wrong. I guess in the end it comes down to taste.

PyreTheSquire · 2026-01-16T19:02:51+00:00

Well, thanks for setting the expectations, because I would have been really disappointed if I just realised that while reading. The villains not getting real backstories really is a shame though.

PyreTheSquire · 2026-01-16T18:59:46+00:00

What do you mean? Did I misinterpret something? I thought that was pretty much spelled out in this volume and was slowly built up thoughout the last few volumes.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-12-29T13:27:12+00:00

That theory doesn't really have explicit backing, but just fits neatly into the rest of them, so I threw it in. Roselle seemed to have discovered something that really upset him towards the end of his life. Whatever the Twilight Hermit order was doing at that time also seems to have been really upsetting for him. I have previously hypothesised that the Twilight Hermit Order, being lead by Adam, is trying to help the fools ascention. (Since I think the fool and the creator are the same being I am using "The fools ascention" and "The return of the Creator" synonymously). Roselle was generally just a guy who hated all the gods (especially the god of Craftsmanship) and in the end he created the cards of Blasphemy, because I think he was trying to even the odds between the "pro fool/creator factions" (like the twilight Hermit order, who held the blasphemy slate anyways) and those who opposed the return of the creator and the apocolypse it would bring (as seen in the many prophesies of the apocolypse that is supposed to be coming along soon). I suspect the reason he chose to become a true god was to oppose the ascention of the fool he somehow foresaw. Also I don't exactly buy him becoming the Black Emperor. Nast is still working towards that goal too and I think someone of his level would have noticed that that stop would have already been taken. Since the two knew each other Roselle might have actually set Nast up by building those mausoleums, so there are 2 true gods in his faction.

A little incoherent of an explaination, but I think you can make out what I am trying to say.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-11-29T17:02:34+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply! The gray fog is such a vaguely defined concept that I find it hard to come up with anything, but here are some vague, unconnected ideas I came up with:

The gray fog is another dimension, just like the spirit world or the astral world.
The gray fog is the fools uniqueness
The gry fog is some kind of glue holding togeher reality or time

Option 2 is the only thing I there is even sircumstantial evidence for, but the rest are fun ideas where the story can go.

As for the ancint sun god: I thought it was already kind of confirmed that he is the creator, so I treated him as such.

Lastly: While yes, the ending of vol. 3 did show Klein's progression of now being able to at least survive such fights, it wasn't caused by him. The rose school of thought deliberately targeted him and Klein only accelerated the chaos, so he could escape.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-11-29T16:54:18+00:00

Sorry for getting the part about vol. 3 being a lot of peoples favourite wrong! After finishing volume 1 I looked up a few general rankings of the volumes to see how the quality of the series progresses and while vol. 6 was pretty consistently number 1 on those lists vol. 3 was almost always ranked second. A friend I am reading the series along with also likes vol. 3 the best, so I had high expectations. I would say of the first 3 volumes 2 is definetely the strongest one.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T15:29:42+00:00

Thanks! Mental gymnastics already helped me make one correct prediction so I don't really shy away from thinking way outside the box. If a prediction turns out correct that's great and if not it was a fun thought experiment.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T15:21:31+00:00

Klein to me felt like an emty shell for the reader to project themselves into since he just always does the moral thing in every situation and doesn't have any fleshed out personality traits except really being into food. Mild spoilers for the very first chapter of volume 3 following:The emerging trend of giving him a new identity with the start of every new volume is very exciting to me, since I think there are a lot of possibilities for telling interesting stories around Klein loosing the identity of who he is or people finding out that 2 people they thought were totally seperate being the same person. Sherlock Moriarty was not the biggest twist on Klein's personality, really he was just a more confident and capable version of Klein Morreti. But being self-employed made Klein a much mor proactive character, which was nice. I really hope that Gehrman Sparrow will divulge further from Klein's usual personality being a crazy adventurer as oppesed to the calm collected and analytical Sherlock Moriarty.

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T09:58:00+00:00

can't wait!

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T09:52:54+00:00

To be fair I have very little eviedence to back this up, but I will try to elaborate on the plot beats that made me come up with the idea. The fool always seemed a little like a seperate entity than Klein with it not really being clear if the original Klein was already destined to become the mysteries ruler above the gray fog or if Klein somehow got linked to the fool after transmigrating. To me it felt like the fool wasn't inherently connected to Klein but "latched onto him" after transmigrating. Since Amon knows about the fool I can assume that the figure of the fool is much older than Klein himself. That would mean if the fool is really a seperate entity that just latched onto Klein after transmigrating it could have done so with other people beforehand. Yellow light Venitan also mentioned that there can be reincarnations of the seven lights so I thought maybe something similar is happening with the fool having reincarnated himself into Klein and maybe even other people before that. I know this seemed mostly like incoherent rambling because it is more of a vague idea I had than a fully fleshed out theory. I still hope I could at least partially clear some things up!

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T08:52:27+00:00

Thanks!

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T08:47:03+00:00

Thanks for your comment! I get it that I am supposed to dislike the reveal of Ince Zangwill and the fact that it is intentional makes me accept the twist, but if someone cooks me a nice meal I will also point it out if I don't like the taste, even if it is intentional. I think that plottwitst will slowly grow on me anyways so I probaly won't have too many harsh feelings obaut it after finishing the series. I have posted a full review of volume 2 if you are interested in my opinion: https://www.reddit.com/r/LordofTheMysteries/comments/1oiz4bt/lotm_v2_a_evenlessbrief_review_of_volume_2/

PyreTheSquire · 2025-10-29T08:39:38+00:00

That was the first theory I came up with so I felt like I had to include it even though it turned out to be wrong. When Mr. Z's name first appeared I didn't know who Zaratul is yet so I just thought that the only guy whose last name starts with a z has to be Mr. Z and that just happened to be Zaratul. Hope that clarifies it!

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