Discussion Anyone notice that LotM's webnovel page changed? (Don't know how long the new cover's been there)

Firstly, they renamed it from "Lord of the Mysteries" to just "Lord of Mysteries".
There's also a new cover.

Spoiler: Full Cover

Honestly, that's all, as far as I can tell there weren't any other changes.

Any opinions on the new name and cover?
(I think the new name was pointless, but the new cover's a lot better than their old one.)

PS: This is old news, apparently the new title has been there since 2020 and I just never noticed *cough* This must be what makes people believe the Mandela effect...
I assumed it was because the new name wasn't on the alt titles on the NU page. Anyway, I'm kind of embarrassed now haha
Did anyone else never notice the name change?

 

Honestly, since mysteries isn't a specific concept Lord of Mysteries is better grammatically.

And all those people calling it LoM instead of LotM will be right now.

 

Eh, didn't know there was grammar problems with it, I think it's well of enough as a title, like Lord of the Flies...
You've got a point with the second part though.

 

"Lord of the Flies" is fine grammatically because readers know what "the flies" are. Just as you would understand the sky, the sea, the floor, the ceiling, etc.

But if I told you the thoughts, the files, the lights, the books, etc. then there is an implicit set of thoughts / files / lights / books / etc. I am referring to. And you would have no idea which. Similarly,

Spoiler: Potential LoM spoiler

"Lord of the Mysteries" implies there is a specific set of mysteries the title references. But as readers, we know in hindsight that the novel does not have such a set. So "Lord of Mysteries" would be more accurate.

 

I remember venting about how the title would sound so much better without the "the" a few times before, so yay

 

For the only reason that I'm used to there being "the", it feels weird in my tongue without

 

I think the cover changed many times before this one. The first time I started the novel, it had another cover, then again when I went to reread it the cover was different. This is again a new cover. It is really beautiful.