History Literature / LordOfMysteries

** The author has also said that the entire sealed artifact system is a reference to the Wiki/SCPFoundation.

* ShoutOut: Several of Klein's fake names are references to real-world series, such as [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Moriarty]] for his detective guise, or [[VideoGame/Bloodborne Gehrman]] [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Sparrow]] for his persona as a crazy bounty-hunter-slash-pirate.
** There are also several references to [[Manga/OnePiece]], especially during the pirate arc, such as pirates using their bounties as if they are power-levels. At one point Klein even overtly tries several phrases from One Piece as passwords for an artifact left by another transmigrator after reading ''another'' One Piece reference in their journal.

* UpliftedAnimal: Suzy, the labrator dog of Audrey, it drink the beyonder potion of Audrey by accident andbecame a rare beyonder animal, usually they become monster right away but the Spectator Pathway was a perfect fit for Suzy and Audrey decides to cultivate her dog, as a result she becomes more inteligent everytime she drinks a new potion.

* GodGuise: The Fool start like this.

* [[{{KingOfThieves}} Pirate King]]: There are Four Pirate Kings, but everybody agrees that Nas Solomon, is the most powerful of them, he is sequence 3 of the Dark Emperor Pathway. His ship is a beyonder artifact that can travel by the spirit world.

* DivineIntervention: The Fool. Every Tarot member usually call his name for help when they find troubles that they can't solve, although they usually they have to provide a service for his help later.

* [[{{KingOfThieves}} Pirate King]]: There are Four Pirate Kings, but everybody

* KingOfThieves Pirate King:

* Pirate King KingOfThieves:

Lord of the Mysteries (诡秘之主) is a Victorian-Horror inspired Chinese [[{{Wuxia}} xuanhuan]] webnovel written by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼)

* DeathWorld: The Forsaken Land of the Gods where the City of Silver is situated. Anyone living there who is in complete darkness for more than about five seconds dies horribly, often being replaced with an evil doppelganger - and there is ''no sun''; the only illumination are the constant lightning strikes. On top of this, if you die there you come back as an evil vengeful monster, guaranteed, and the only way to prevent this is to be killed by your own relatives, so everyone above a certain age has to be executed in this way.

* LostWorld: The 'The Land Forgotten by the Gods' [[spoiler:turns out to be Europe which]] was cut of during the Cataclysm. Although most residents died, some still survive under harsh living conditions preserving knowledge forgotten by most outside.

* SealedEvilInACan: The Whishing Lamp, one of the most powerful artifacts in the novel, has a very powerful and evil entity sealed inside that can fulfill you ten wishes, but after each wish your life would be in risk, also you have to be very careful with the words you use because it can easily twist your wish, you can survive the first two if you are careful but the third one must not be made.

* FateWorsethanDeath: There are traps made by beyonders from high sequences that are like this, divination reveals that those who are trapped like this are not dead just in constant suffering.

* [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Evil]]: Those who are from the Secret Suplicant Pathway are believed this for the other groups since the god that controls this Pathway 'True Creator' is an evil god, and use his influence to corrupt all who belong to his group and make them whorship him. Only one beyonder was able to not fall under his influence thanks to using a method to start from the 5th sequence, skipping the 9th were all become corrupted.
* [[AncientConspiracy Ancient Conspiracy]]: There are a lot of conspiracies but the oldest belong to Twilight Hermit Order. Their suspected purpose is to resurrect the Original Creator, guiding history toward that conclusion. They have already existed for many thousands of years, existing solely for their one purpose. They have members in every church of the world and in the different secret societies that exist, some of them were even created by them.

* [[BackfromtheDead Back from the Dead]]: Klein has been able to come back to life thanks to his hidden abilities and his connection with the Grey Fog.
* BlessedWithSuck: Some people are born with a connection to a particular pathway, starting with essentially half of a Sequence 9 ability without having to drink a potion. This is much less awesome than it sounds - their powers are weak, and they generally won't have any training and will therefore frequently go insane, especially if their Sequence can't be identified. Worse, they're locked into the Sequence they were born with and will ''definitely'' go insane if they drink any other potion.
* [[CallingYourAttacks Calling Your Attacks]]: Averted, even if all techniques have names, once a person gains insight on her/his beyonder powers, they rarely call them out loud.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The churchs are structured like the Renaissance-era Catholic church, but as Klein notes, their underlying beliefs stem from a creation myth that more closely resembles one from Chinese mythology; and, of course, there are several of them rather than just one, all of them believing in a creation myth that puts them on even ground with the others - monotheism doesn't seem to be a thing.

* [[DivineIntervention Divine Intervention]]: The Fool. Every Tarot member usually call his name for help when they find troubles that they can't solve, although they usually they have to provide a service for his help later.
* [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Location]]: The Starry Sky. A mysterious place that can corrupt an Angel of sequence 2 in minutes, even knowing too much about it can make you crazy.
* [[EvilWeapon Evil Weapon]]:The beyonder artifacts, ALL OF THEM, every beyonder use them because thanks to them they can use the power of other pathways, but there is always a price to pay, for example, Beyonder weapons from the Sun Pathway have the power to purify evil spirits easily but if one use them for a long time you can end up worshipping the Sun God all day long. The ones made from beyonder materials are not very corruptive but they are weaker effects and those made from Beyonder Characteristic are more corruptive but also more powerful.
* [[ExpositionOfImmortality Exposition Of Immortality]]: A lot of characters are revealed to be Beyonders that have lived for hundred of years, specially Angels but Azik Eggers is a good example of this trope, he has lived since the fourth Era, he has been repeatedly dying, resurrecting while losing his memories every 60 years, during each cycle he tries to regain his memories to find a solution to his problem.
* [[FateWorsethanDeath Fate Worse than Death]]: There are traps made by beyonders from high sequences that are like this, divination reveals that those who are trapped like this are not dead just in constant suffering.

* [[GenderBender Gender Bender]]: The Demoness and the Red Priest Pathway are like that, a man in the Demoness Pathway becomes a woman in the 7th Sequence 'Witch'. A woman in the Red Priest Pathway becomes a man in the 4th Sequence 'Iron-Blooded Knight. The change is permanent.
* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Our Angels Are Different]]: Sequences 1 and 2 of every pathway are called Angels, They are complete mythical creatures and have to have an anchor that prevents them from going mad. They can respond to prayers all over the world, and were called Subsidiary Gods in ancient times. Those who contain more than one sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic, or contain the uniqueness of the pathway, are called Kings of Angels.

* [[PowerLevels Power Levels]]: Every pathway has the same 9 levels or sequences, they begin with level 9 and end in level 1, there is a level 0 but few people know about it. Levels 9 and 8 are called Low Sequences, Level 7, 6 and 5 are called Mid-Sequence, and Level 4 to 1 are called High Sequences with sequence 4 is called Demigod, a sequence 3 is called Saint, 2 and 1 are Angels, and then there is level 0, a god.
* [[RoyaltySuperPower Royalty SuperPower]]: Members of the Loen Royal family have control of the Justiciar Pathway, the king and princes are beyonder also a selected group of aristrocats, although because of a treaty with the Churches, the king can't ascend beyond the 5th level.
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In A Can]]:The Whishing Lamp, one of the most powerful artifacts in the novel, has a very powerful and evil entity sealed inside that can fulfill you ten wishes, but after each wish your life would be in risk, also you have to be very careful with the words you use because it can easily twist your wish, you can survive the first two if you are careful but the third one must not be made.
* [[TheDreaded The Dreaded]]: Amon The Blasphermer, even if you manage to get to Level 1 you are no match for this guy, Angels run from him, even the Gods are wary of him, he is a King of Angels of the Marauder Pathway, and he can steal anything, and I mean 'anything', he can steal your thoughts, distances, abilities( like walking or seeing), he can steal beyonder powers, defraud the laws of nature, steal years of your life, as long as he can understand it, he can steal it. If you fight against him and with the help of several angels you manage to defeat him, bad luck, you just defeated a clone with his main body safe in a secure place and he now knows about you and he would come to kill you soon. And now he is trying to become a god.
* VegetarianVampire: Maric and Sharron are the zombie / wraith versions of this respectively; while the Prisoner pathway offers incredible power if you yield to its bloodlust, and leaves you weaker if you resist the urge to become a mass-murderer, they've managed to resist until now. It's implied that this is the way the Prisoner pathway is ''supposed'' to work and that, while it leaves you weaker in an immediate sense, you advance faster if you can manage it.

Lord of the Mysteries (诡秘之主) is a Chinese western fantasy webnovel written by the Chinese author Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼)

* [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Evil]]: Those who are from the Secret Suplicant Pathway are believed this for the other groups since the god that controls this Pathway 'True Creator' is an evil god, and use his influence to corrupt all who belong to his group and make them whorship him. Only one beyonder was able to not fall under his influence thanks to using a method to star from the 5th sequence, skipping the 9th were all become corrupted.
* [[AncientConspiracy Ancient Conspiracy]]: There is a lot of conspiracy but the oldest belong to Twilight Hermit Order. Their suspected purpose is to resurrect the Original Creator, guiding history toward that conclusion. They have already existed for many thousands of years, existing solely for their one purpose. They have members in every church of the world and in the different secret societies that exist, some of them were even created by them.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: The Sanguine that we see obtain the blood they need to live by using the alchemical skill their pathway gives them to serve as doctors; fortunately for them, bloodletting is still a commonly-accepted medical treatment, so they offer low-cost medical care, secretly taking the blood they extract from patients as part of this treatment in order to survive.

* [[TheDreaded The Dreaded]]: Amon The Blasphermer, even if you manage to get to Level 1 you are no match for this guy, Angels run from him, even the Gods are wary of him, he is a King of Angels of the Marauder Pathway, and he can steal anything, and I mean 'anything', he can steal your thoughts, distances, abilities( like walking or seeing), he can steal beyonder powers, defraud the laws of nature, steal years of your life, as long as he can understand it, he can steal it. If you fight against him and with the help of several angels you manage to defeat him, bad luck, you just defeated a clone with his main body safe in a secure place and he now knows about you and he would come to kill you soon. And now he is trying to become a god.