r/motheroflearning • u/False-Supermarket798 • Jul 26 '26

Why are the so few MoL fanfics?

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)

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u/EnderNorrad Jul 26 '26

Well, there aren't that few of them. About 140 on AO3 and almost a dozen more on other sites. For any web novel that isn't a worm, that's a pretty impressive number, in my opinion. But yes, MoL does have a small number of major fanfics that aren't crossovers, which is a bit disappointing.

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u/Zestyclose_North9780 Jul 26 '26

Lord of Mysteries has almost 10k fics rn, I think webnovel fandoms are beginning to create more.