After watching the entire trailer of "Lord of the Mysteries", I have actually used irrefutable evidence to show that this anime does not seem to have much connection with "The Forsaken Land".
After all, the game "Forsaken Land" is a desperate medieval dark wasteland style, an apocalyptic world that has not seen sunlight for thousands of years, and is always under the threat of darkness.
However, although "Lord of Mysteries" has some despair and decadence due to its steampunk style, it is ultimately two styles.
Some players who were originally players of "Forsaken Land" deeply felt that they had been deceived after watching the promotional video of "Lord of Mysteries".
Didn't we agree to use "The Land Abandoned by God" as the prototype and adapt it into an anime? I'm waiting to see how the protagonist overcomes dangers and discovers the truth about the catastrophe. How did it end up like this?
This is a blatant digression, and it deceives our fragile and immature hearts! Immediately, someone on the forum started to spit on this "shameless off-topic behavior":
"What we want to see in "The Land Abandoned by Gods" is the story of those city-states who are looking for hope in despair and can finally obtain redemption, not guns, cannons, and difference machines. This is simply deceiving emotions!"
Indeed, as far as the first promotional video is concerned, the anime "Lord of Mysteries" and the game "Forsaken Land" seem to have no connection at all except for a vague world view.
Therefore, this audience member's angry rebuke was justified to a certain extent. However, if there were those who objected, there would naturally be those who supported it. Soon, some strange remarks came from below: "Don't, don't, don't, how big is your face? Why are you representing me?"
The one below was arrogant, and the one above was not someone to be trifled with. They immediately fell into a period of trash-talking.
There are also some viewers who are really upset and have read out Ge Zhaodu's previous speech to think about how much the upcoming "Lord of the Mystery" has to do with the game.
After watching the promotional video, Ge Zhaodu sorted out the opinions he had posted casually before and put forward a point of view that he should think about more.
"I said before that the anime "Lord of Mysteries" may be a different world line. In that world line, there was no cataclysm, and then it reached the steampunk era of the Industrial Revolution."
"But now that I think about it, I feel that if this is the case, the connection with the original game is too weak, so Qinghai may not be set like this."
"Perhaps the story told in "Lord of Mysteries" also did not break out a cataclysm, but the reason why it did not break out is that there are some changes in some places from "The Land Abandoned by Gods"."
"So in the world line of "Lord of Mysteries", although the outbreak of the catastrophe was prevented at the beginning, after a period of delay, the catastrophe still came."
"Of course, the coming of this catastrophe may not necessarily appear in the first season of the anime. The first season may only show clues."
"Everyone looks at the person in the promotional video, the only one whose face is revealed. I think there is a high probability that he is the protagonist of "Lord of the Mystery"."
"Then let's call him the protagonist for now. This protagonist obviously shot his head with a gun at the beginning, but apparently he didn't die after shooting his head off, and he was still revived little by little."
"And have you noticed that in addition to the pistol and some odds and ends, there is also a book with writing on it on the table."
"Although we can see what words are written in the book by zooming in, it is obvious that Qinghai has been on guard against this for a long time. This world is an independent creation of words, and we cannot decipher his meaning at all."
"But no matter what is written in this book, I think it is obviously related to the plot. It may appear and play an important role in the feature film. It is related to the catastrophe, or at least the clues of the catastrophe."
"Now I will make an estimate based on my guess. Please note that this is just an estimate. Of course, if the feature film comes out and slaps me in the face, that would be normal."
"In the world of "Lord of Mysteries", the Creator did not encounter that betrayal, so this world did not cause a terrible catastrophe like "The Land Abandoned by Gods"."
"But for some reason, when the protagonist lived in the era, the catastrophe finally came, and through this book, he noticed some clues, and finally shot himself in despair."
"As a result, because he read this book, he was resurrected by the power related to the catastrophe. This is the scene shown in the promotional video."
"So the main plot of "Lord of Mysteries" may be that after this suicide attempt, the protagonist embarks on the road to explore and even prevent the catastrophe, and in the process, unravel why the catastrophe occurred in "The Land Abandoned by Gods" secret."
"Of course, it may also appear in the first season, which is the finale. The content of the first season is the story of the protagonist approaching the book. This suicide will not appear until the finale."
Ge Zhaodu's well-founded bragging attracted many people to watch. At the same time, other viewers shifted their speculation to the prequel of "The Land Abandoned by Gods".
Another viewer wrote: "I think this "Lord of Mysteries" should be a work similar to a prequel, telling the story of the era when the God of Light ruled before the Cataclysm."
"Originally, I didn't agree with the idea of a prequel story, but obviously the picture now presented is not the scene after the catastrophe, so I can only support this view."
"Perhaps the story line of "Lord of Mysteries" is from the perspective of the unlucky ghost who committed suicide at the beginning, witnessing the destruction of the world in the cataclysm."
"Even why the Sun God was able to kill the Ancient God, I think it can also be explained. He used the power of the Industrial Revolution."
This view attracted support from many people, but soon it was opposed by more people: "It can't be a story before the catastrophe, the times are different."
"Obviously before the catastrophe, that world was a pre-modern religious society, with existences such as the God of Creation and the King of Angels."
"However, what is shown in the promotional video of "Lord of Mysteries" is obviously the world after the modern industrial revolution, even the difference engine has appeared."
As players continued to discuss on the forum, some people actually got closer to the truth, and their guesses were very close to the original book.
"I feel that the cataclysm may not have affected the entire world, but only the Land Abandoned by the Gods. In fact, it is also mentioned in the game that this is the God's Domain, and beyond the God's Domain there are outer realms."
"This can also explain another point, that is, after the King of Angels betrayed the God of Light, where did they go? Apparently they are no longer the place abandoned by the gods."
Those who supported this view soon discovered another important piece of information, that is, among the patterns that appeared in the promotional video, there was a set of badges with unclear meaning at first glance.
The hardcore player recognized four of them, or could have guessed three of them, because they were just similar and not stone hammers.
Among the seven badges with unknown meanings, three have analogues in "The Land Abandoned by Gods", representing the Pure White Angel, the Wind Angel and the Cherubim respectively.
Although the shape is slightly different, this brother is convinced that it has only changed due to the passage of time. It must be the three angel kings that appeared as the background board in "The Forsaken Land".
Following this line of reasoning, the story background of "Lord of Mysteries" should be established many years after the Cataclysm.
And since three of the seven badges were all former kings of angels, then the remaining four should have the same status as them even if they are not kings of angels.
Apart from this, there is no other useful discussion. After all, although the first promotional video has been released, there is still not much useful information.
