Lord of the Mysteries Episode 5 Reaction
Added 2025-07-19 10:03:13 +0000 UTCComments
(This is knowledge I've gathered while being maybe about an episode ahead on the novel, so no spoilers, and it of course might not be completely accurate to stuff revealed in content I haven't read.) About the Gods, Tingen has three main churches, the church of the Evernight Godess, the church of the Lord of Storms and the church of the God of Steam and Machinery. All three are fairly chill with each other and they each have their "secret police" of you will, the Nighthawks, the Mandated Punishers, and the Machinery Hivemind respectively, which cooperate with each other from time to time. These are 3 of the 7 orthodox Gods, which are the 7 largest religions in the continent. These are faiths that have developed over millenia, and their respective Gods are considered to be something like the "first offspring" of the Creator (you can rewatch the part with the Creation myth in the second episode, there's a bit of nuance to it, but I won't get into it), while many of the "evil" gods are followed by more cult-like (much newer in history) groups that routinely do bad things, like the Demoness Sect or the Aurora Order (which worships the True Creator, who conceptually is a sort of "husk" of the original Creator, which was left behind after his body became all of known reality and birthed the 7 orthodox Gods. This is the upside down guy on a cross that Dunn saw in Hanass Vincent's dream last episode). Of course, this is from the perspective of the Nighthawks, who are essentially the supernatural police and want to maintain order, so of course they view inherently disruptive groups like these as dangerous. Also, I believe one of the reasons why the orthodox Gods aren't considered as evil is partly because praying to them has been proven as safe over the centuries, since as you can see through the series, when Klein and old Neil use ritualistic magic by praying to the Evernight Godess, it usually turns out well, while praying to "unknown entities" or "evil gods" often turns out very badly. Like with Selena and the magic mirror in episode 4.
ATableWithPants
2025-07-20 12:16:24 +0000 UTCI'll try explaining the fight from what I remember of the novel and what they actually showed in the episode. -Dunn puts Trissy into a dream where he baits her into thinking Frye (the other guy who isn't Dunn or Leonard) is going into the house by himself, leading her to revealing herself and being attacked by dream Leonard. She gets pushed into the transforming wall and realizes she's in a dream, and cuts her hand to wake up. -After she wakes up, she's vulnerable and gets shot at by real Leonard. -But as a Witch, she can use some spells, one of which being a substitution spell that places her back inside the house, while leaving shards of glass where she was before that attack Leonard, but Dunn turns those shards into dust. - While Dunn jumps up to enter the building through the second floor to avoid a possible trap in the main entrance, Frye and Leonard stay behind dealing with the shadows that remained from the Life Usurpation ritual. (They can do this because of the demon-hunting bullets Nighthawks get from the church, which can hurt supernatural beings). -Frye, who's a Sequence 9 Corpse Collector (the lowest sequence of the group, aside from Klein), gets caught off guard by a shadow, who as ghosts are naturally cold. The ghost starts freezing him, but as a Corpse Collector, he has a certain level of immunity against undead beings, so he uses his beyonder powers to free himself. -Dunn enters the building and is attacked by the curtains, which Trissy is probably controlling through some sort of magic involving her blood (I'm not sure how this works), after dealing with it, Trissy attacks him directly with the power of the Primordial Demoness's image, which Dunn barely manages to defend against. -Trissy takes the opportunity to flee, Leonard chases, Trissy controls the weeds in tge garden to distract him, and shoots a cursed flower at him, which grabs some of his blood and floats back to Trissy. -Trissy tries to use her Witch abilities to curse Leonard through his blood, but Leonard thinks fast and does some sort of strange ritual to stop her, tearing out a fingernail, wrapping it in a strand of his hair and digging at the flesh of the wound, somehow transporting the insta-death curse into the fingernail and saving his life. -Trissy escapes into the night, but the Nighthawks at least succeded in stopping her from finishing the ritual that she was trying to do with all those souls she got from Life Usurpation.
ATableWithPants
2025-07-20 11:56:16 +0000 UTCI'm pretty glad to be reading the novel slightly ahead of the Donghua, cuz it makes it a lot more digestible.
ATableWithPants
2025-07-19 18:55:08 +0000 UTC
