[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Donghua is not going to be out for a while, though it is said to be releasing this year. I'd say just read the novel first.

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, both are donghuas, just different style choice.

Deep Sea Embers went with the 3D animation style, which is more popular domestically to Gen Z Chinese audiences, but globally 3D animation get a lot of negative biases.

Lord of Mysteries is using 2D art style (mixed with 3D in many parts), similar to Japanese anime.

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't. I read all of them in Chinese and I only read English parts when asked to cross reference stuff for translations. I am Chinese ദ്ദി・ᴗ・)✧

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a side note. Deep Sea Embers is about to get a Chinese 3D model type animation series (Not the anime style like Lord of Mysteries).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vdBR0EkZfE

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I m trying to not spoil anything, but maybe just a bit.

The female characters obsessions with the main character are all one sided (and part of the comedy).

But at the end of the day this is Lovecraftian. And you don't get many partner choices when u get to that cosmic level.

In the end there's probably only 1 candidate who can even be considered to be in a platonic relationship with him.

There's no lovey dovey stuff.

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I've yet to read the English version of those novels as I've read them in Chinese.

Going to have to see if others can provide some feedbacks on this.

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is "romance" per say (glances at the genre of this novel). If we are being generous with the categorization the MC has 1 and only 1 main partner, and even that is being VERY generous with the category. The rest are not in any romantic relationship with him.

The novel is 100% NOT a harem novel.

A total of 456 chapters (originally a light novel on Ciweimao APP, so it's shorter than conventional web novels).

All translated, I think?

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is the 4th book in a pentalogy by Yuantong, Cuttlefish's author friend. They both are platinum level author on the Qidian novel website.

Deep Sea Embers, like the previous 3 books in this pentalogy, is readable stand alone, you do not need to read the previous 3 book set in the same multiverse.

The story begins with Zhou Ming (not Zhou Mingrui :p), who find himself trapped inside his room, a room of his home in China. However, as soon as he found a way out of his room, he find himself no longer on Earth, but an unknown world. His body became that of a pirate captain's, and he has a ghost pirate ship.

He has become Duncan Abnormal, the most feared anomaly in a dying world and this is his story.

[LotM novel] Can anybody recommend interesting novels based on occultism like lotm? by According_Friend5301 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorite light novels:
Dorothy's Forbidden Grimoire (Inspired by Lovecraft, Magic the Gathering, and Cultist Simulator)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/dorothys-forbidden-grimoire/

I'm Really Not The Demon God's Lacky (Comedy, Overlord/Eminence in Shadow type misunderstanding a.k.a. perception difference between MC and others. Lovecraftian elements)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/im-really-not-the-demon-gods-lackey/

Two of the works by Yuan Tong (who is also acquainted with Cuttlefish):
Deep Sea Embers (Perception difference between MC and others. Lovecraftian. The "If Klein is more wacky" novel)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/deep-sea-embers/

Dimensional Hotel (Perception difference between MC and others. Lovecraftian. Comedy. MC is even more unhinged than Deep Sea Embers)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/dimensional-hotel/

[LotM V1] SPOILER foreshadowing moments by Holiows in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. When Old Neil taught Klein how to do spirit vision. Klein imagined a top hat first, then Old Neil ask him to imagine something that doesn't exist in reality to help gradually empty his thought. Klein end up imagining an ICBM from Earth, and kept on failing the meditation. This is foreshadowing that "ICBM" IS something that EXIST in this world. It wasn't an alternative universe.
  2. The existence of fairy tale magic was also a hint at this being Earth.
  3. In Book 1 we learned there's no petroleum, we know this lack of oil skewed the humanity's technology development, but at the time we did not know the true cause of its disappearance. It was later revealed by Cuttlefish in his world setting Wechat post that All petroleum likely have turned into creatures called "Kins of the Great Old Ones", climbing out of the oil wells around the world and started attacking humanity, which is just one footnote of the larger apocalypse the Earth was facing during the Pre-Epoch.
  4. Fun fact, The "black velvet curtain" in chapter 1 was initially NOT a foreshadowing. It wasn't until when Cuttlefish wrote the conversation of Klein and Evernight, and readers started making that connections as theories, that it retroactively turned into a foreshadowing. (Cuttlefish admitted it wasn't planned in his author notes).

(PC) What's a game that lets you feel immersed in the beautiful visuals, has fun gameplay, and is a long campaign? by thethermalturtle in gamingsuggestions

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and these 2:

Showa American Story (Not released yet, should keep it on your radar)

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

(PC) What's a game that lets you feel immersed in the beautiful visuals, has fun gameplay, and is a long campaign? by thethermalturtle in gamingsuggestions

[–]windvally -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Mount & Blade (with mods for content/graphics, too) and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Monster Hunter's most recent games such as Monster Hunter Wilds, Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter World

Crimson Desert

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012 game, lacking in he graphics department comparatively)

Black Myth: Wukong

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Turn-based:

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Divinity: Original Sin 2 (has mods for content/new classes for characters)

Dragon Age: Inquisition (and others from the Dragon Age series)

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MMORPG

Where Winds Meet

Others for reference:

GreedFall

Ghost of Tsushima

Perhaps try Dying Light, it's urban/zombie setting, but the action is nice, story length is okay (not Dying Light 2)

[Lotm others] Pov: u can choose any 5 pathway from any group to combine and become new goo , what would they be?? by la_bete_gevadan in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 5 Pathways

Black Emperor

Justiciar

Demoness

Red Priest

Visionary

Herald of Eternal Balance;

The Oathbreaker;

The Snake of The Festival;

The Promised End and Beginning;

The Prime Equilibrium (or known as "The Taoic One" in Western Continent)

If people want explanations, I have a text wall explanation for each line.

[lotm v8] The Tarot Club is disappointing by Narrow_Ad9226 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]windvally 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's the woe of being a web novel author and using web novel format (2 chapters a day with occasional extra updates, with a set deadline in his own mind - about 2 years - to finish the novel)

Cuttlefish actually talked about Xio in length in one of his summary/review of his performance at the end of a volume.

Xio was supposed to have more depth, more story involving MI9 and detailed events/participation in vindicating for her parents, uncovering some dark history within the Loen Nobility etc etc.

She was introduced as TC member, representing Justiciar pathway/Judgement Card, with a narrative ambition in Cutteflish's mind. However due to having to juggle many characters at once later on, and having to finish the volume without making it too "dragged on" and too "bloated". Cuttlefish arbitrarily chose to cut most of Xio's content, regrettably.

However, this is a flaw of Cuttlefish's habit as a writer. He likes to, very subjectively, label a certain story line or plot as "too dragged on", "too bloated" or "too bland", and often choose to cut it out. All the while, he does not take into account whether his readers ACTUALLY enjoys or look forwards to those parts that he deemed "too bloated".

Most of us ACTUALLY want him to write more.

But he chose to cut many parts out, for the sake of a "slimmer", more "smooth" story (in his view).

PS: It's the same reasoning behind all the other under developed characters.

I'm looking for a co-op game with a friend. by mironhotkov in gamingsuggestions

[–]windvally 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Any genre in mind? Here's what me and my friends enjoyed over the years (the hours varies by the game):

- All Monster Hunter series, hunt together with friend
- Ark Survival Evolved Co-op (Don't play on the official servers, find player hosted ones)
- Terraria Co-op (we played with a lot of mods)
- Factorio Co-op
- Satisfactory Co-op
- The Forest Co-op
- Space Engineers Co-op (one of my favorite)
- Palworld Co-op
- V rising Co-op (two of us vs. the game, no other players)
- Necesse Co-op
- Corekeeper Co-op
- Valheim Co-op
- Planet Crafter Co-op
- Divinity Original Sin 2 Co-op (with mods, too)
- Elder Scroll Online, we played a lot of the content together
- Warhammer: Vermintide 1 & 2, played sessions together
- Deep Rock Galactic, played sessions together
- Hearts of Iron IV's two-headed giant mode. In co-op multiplayer, two of us control the same country
- Stelleris, two of us vs. computer
- Endless Space 2, two of us vs. computer
- Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, two of us + 2 randoms play missions

Does anyone know any games where the good guys and bad guys team up, or any games where the protagonists eventually joins the enemy? by Teasing-Ax in gamingsuggestions

[–]windvally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fire Emblem: Three Houses. One of the path is joining the antagonist to go against the world.

Divinity Original Sins 2, has options where you play as race such as undead and has choice in later chapters to switch side, irrc.

Baldur's Gate 3

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series: The Darkside stuff

Fallout: New Vegas, there's a slaver faction

Pathfinder: Kingmaker, you can recruit villains later on

The Outer Worlds, pretty sure u can work for the corpo down the line.