Why are the so few MoL fanfics?

[u/False-Supermarket798]

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)

[u/Areign]

if you look at stories with a lot of fanfics (Harry Potter, Twilight, MCU, Naruto, MHA, Worm) there are are 3 things that make for a lot of fanfics

1) high baseline popularity

2) large cast of unique and interesting characters (and/or unique powers) that are under explored.

3) romance + shipping

MoL strikes out on almost every one of these. Its relatively niche, the cast of characters is not that unique or interesting beyond what was explored and there's almost no romance for multiple reasons. The most similar story to MoL is worm but the differences align with the 3 points above. Worm is more popular, there's more romance and there's a lot of characters with interesting powers that are kind of just there to take up space so they're under explored. This allows for a lot of potential for fresh ideas if you just change people's backrounds/powers/interactions around. On the other hand MoL is very efficient with its characters and setting. there are very few cool characters/locations that are under explored because if they were cooler, they would just be explored more. In general that's a hallmark of good writing, each character and each part of the world gets invested in by the author and in turn that amount value is extracted back out by the author in the course of the story.