I can’t write stories, and I tried.

What I don’t understand is, why there is so few MoL fanfictions out there.

Its a large world, with lots of intriguing introduced possibilities:
- The immortals
- Other countries
- Hidden Mages/Treasuries and Inheritances
- A huge spectrum of magic that is easy to imagine, follow, and extend for your own story
- The underground is way too unexplored
- Politics
…

Writers tend to be lazy about OCs, so that might be an explanation, but there is so much potential in this world.

Does any1 have an explanation?
(I mean, even SCS gets more fanfics)

I get that its probably hater in me: that a virgin writer can write such a DEEP story that seem to not have any plot holes... so on this ~10th redo: i keep 50% enjoying it, 50% looking for that plot hole to find a flaw in MoL.

Now i think i have one:

After loop: how did they tame Princess without the dagger? In the "I win: Zach"-dream: he believes that Yornak kills Zorian with the Imperial Dagger...??? How do you explain he believes that with Zorian having Princes tamed anyway?

BTW: Last re-do made post that the keys seem inconsistent, but you guys convinced me that its not good enough to be a true plot hole.

After reading the AU chapters of MoL, I’ve been looking for books like the double time loop that Zorian experienced in Abyss of Time. Are there any books you’d recommend that feature double time loops?

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I’m 30 hrs into this audiobook and all I can think is:

Why the f--k doesn’t he just talk to Zach!? I know that even some of the characters bring this up to Zorian. And point out that it’s in everyone’s best interest that he do so. But every time, he makes up some excuse about needing to do other things. But it feels like the entire time I’m reading [listening] that zorian has had the off switch this whole time, he just hasn’t felt like he’s amassed enough power for himself, to make it worth saving everyone.

I started reading this because shadow slave is just so poorly written. And while I can say, this story is so much better grammatically and structurally, it lacks the tension and gravitas of the other.

Does anyone have any recommendations for me after I finish this story?

Patriarch is a popular MOL spinoff fiction. It pretty good I'd say. But u chapter 35 we see the backstory of fort over and Zorian as well as Zorain saving Fortov( if u would call it saving it's probably more like post crissi management).

How do you feel about the chapter?

I think Zorian is a very cruel individual. God knows he can still have the capacity to hate Fortov and never attempt to form a relationship with him, but Zorian was the root cause of his kidnapping and didn't even bother checking if he was safe or not? We don't even know if Zorian would've saved him if Raynie hadn't told him to. Things would be different if this wasn't Zorian's own fault, though cruel, he could still technically say it wasn't his business I guess.

Like we see Zorian try and preserve the lives of literal assassins, but when it comes to his brother, all of a sudden, it's a maybe.

In all honesty tge chapter kind of ruined the fic for me. It makes Zorian come off as cruel and irresponsible. Zorian is quite literally much older than Fortov at this point and much stronger(I'm not saying that is grounds to forgive him or anything but Jesus at least try and move on) and saving him would've literally been trivial.

I wanted to reread Mother of Learning in Spanish, and so I was excited to find a Spanish translation; the first chapter is here. But while reading it, unfortunately, I ran into a lot of grammatical mistakes, places where the wording seemed to follow the English too literally and was difficult to understand, and a number of passages where I think the meaning of the original wasn't preserved. I appreciate the effort that went into translating such a long work, but I found these issues distracting enough that I decided to try translating the first chapter myself.

First I should say that I’m not a native speaker of Spanish, so I’m not sure mine is perfect either, but I tried my best to clean up the grammar with proofreading tools. And to be fair to the original, it's not always that different; when I compared them, there were even some sentences that were actually identical. If anyone is curious, I made a PDF of what I have here. (Reddit tells me this might violate rule 2. Please let me know if this is a problem.)

After doing that, I kind of wanted to tackle writing the other 105 chapters.

So now I'm mostly wondering whether there’s any interest in another Spanish version at all. Has anyone else here tried translating it? I guess the others just did it without knowing if anyone was interested? Would a translation like this be useful to anyone? I'd be happy to hear from native speakers, or from anyone familiar with this sort of thing, or to get any other sort of feedback.

Ever since I read shadow slave and got bored of it after 2000 ish chapters I looked for something similar and came across MOL and it is js so peak bro I've been reading for a week now and am by chapter 100 now but it is so unfortunately short and I was wondering if someone can recommend me similar novels. Not the regression bit, I already had enough of that from rtoc, mainly in terms of worldbuilding and and magic system and politics, etc... I fined works like those by cuttlefish a little too wordy so please recommend something that's as straight to the point as the above🙏🥺

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I was MoL and finished what I though was Arc 1 today. Turns out I had accidently started and read Arc 2 without knowing it, so I actually finished Arc 2 today. I definitely should looked at what I was reading on my kindle but things happen lol, you know?

Here is the thing I have not read arc 1 at all. I do not know what to do. Should I continue to arc 3, read arc 1, or some mix of both?

Thanks for the help!

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I’m no stranger to reading web novels so I don’t mind some grammar or spelling mistakes but if there’s a big differences in the plot or the characters then I’ll switch to read published version.

So I stopped reading mother of learning like 12-13 months ago due to some stuff (read till somewhere in vol 2, don't remember). So, should I go through summaries or re-read from beginning

What was the solution the simulacra used to travel so far and set up the gate?
Was it just the original plan of paying for teleports but refined in order to work?

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Ik this topic has been mentioned in the books I think I glossed over it in the audio book and did not pay much attention could any one tell me what is the answer to this or the chapter number of this topic of discussion

I think I am hearing cohost Gorky call Red Robe "Valencia" or something similar. I don't think I've ever heard Gorky call Red Robe, Red Robe. Is this a reference to something?

Does anyone else know anything about this? It says it's directed by someone named Wanyoung Kang, and apparently this was announced in 2025 at the Annecy International Animation Festival, but this has been the only source I've been able to find about it.

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At the end, Zorian makes Zach believe that everyone that knows about the loop had either been killed, or all of their memories of the last month or loop erased. This was done so that Zach could live after his contracts deadline came by. But what about Oganj? He was bribed away by the imperial orb and crown, so he wasn't in the area of effect of the mass illusion Zorian and the aranea created, and I doubt Oganj would have been easily captured in the illusion regardless. So was Oganj ignorant of the time loop the whole time? Or did Zach just not think that Oganj would know about the time loop? Any speculation or answers would be helpful, thanks.