Eight years ago today on the first of April, 2017, Cuttlefish put up the very first chapters of his as of yet unknown novel that we all might have heard of: Lord of Mysteries!
Sounds familiar, right? We've all heard the name floating around somewhere, right? Maybe some of us have even read a few chapters of it! 🤭 Two years later, he finished publishing the eight-volume story that we all know and love. Nearly 4.5 million words in Chinese, and with a rough estimate of 2.7million words (depending on the translation and the person, thank you reddit) when translated into English. Add two more years to write Circle of Inevitability to the list, and we are looking at approximately 8 million words in Chinese, and 4.7 million when translated into English.
All of that from one author!
And now I hear some of us are here to challenge that word count!!!
…Jokes, Happy April Fools 😁
But as Cuttlefish wraps up this universe after eight years of on-and-off writing about it, we're all here right now for one reason, so let us pull back the curtains to announce~
Lord of Mysteries Big Bang 2026 sign-ups are now up!
Let's celebrate the universe and the characters that Cuttlefish has created for us, and show our love through the creation of fanworks over the next half year~
The sign-ups will be open through the month of April, so come join and tell other fans about our event to spread the pain joy of Lord of Mysteries! Drag more friends to read the novels or watch the donghua, and see if they'd like to join us in this event by the fans and for the fans.
As one of the smaller online fandoms (although we're huge for webnovels!), do you remember how you felt after reading the story and realising that you need fanfiction and fanart to fill the hole in your heart? Do you remember when you first searched up the IP and realised that— wow! There are some amazing arts and fics for it?
Now it's our turn to create more for the fans who will inevitably join us as the games come out and the donghua continue. Let's give them all the cake they can eat!
More information on our carrd.












