As noted in the opening post, the main story can be found at fictionpress, here. In addition, my fictionpress profile also holds some important information, such as the next chapter release date and answers to some common questions.
For those who wish to send me money, I have a patreon page here.
There is a MoL Wiki at this web address. I’m not involved in filling it out, but my fans have been pretty active.
In case you’re curious about how the setting looks like, you can see a rudimentary map of Altazia here. There is another map focused on political divisions and city placements here. Another map. A WIP world map.
Also, I have fanart! Rizaki717 has drawn some illustrations for Chapter 1 and posted them on his DeviantArt Account (click here). Specifically, he has posted a picture of Kirielle wake-up scene, Ilsa’s visit, The ever-mysterious bicycle girl, Benisek, Taiven, Magic staff and Xvim’s wonderful lesson. Taiven doesn’t really look like that in my head, but hey. My favorite is the Xvim scene – the expressions are perfect.
Pocket Size Sleuth has been making fanart of MoL characters, and you can finally see two examples of that. Go see Zorian and Kirielle at sketchmemo.wordpress.com.
LUCA has done some drawings of Zorian. You can find them here and here.
Zyellowz has drawn an illustration of Zorian and his siblings that you can view here on his tumblr page.
Sheep has drawn a picture of Red Robe, which can be found here. Also another round of fanart here.
One of my readers is doing a Russian translation of the story. You can read it here.
Another one of my fans has been doing a reading/audiobook of Mother of Learning. The first three chapters are done (but still pending some editing) and can be found here, here and here. Or you can just go to her website/tumblr stream at http://avtid-oftime.tumblr.com/.
Some helpful tables made by Ull (who also did the audiobook up above):
MoL Character Appearance Chart: Lists all characters that appear in a particular chapter. If you ever wondered when a particular character showed up or when it was last mentioned, this will help.
MoL Time Table: Tries to keep track of how much time had passed in the story. That is, how many restarts did Zorian live though, and how long did they last (if they were cut short).
Armaell has made an epub of Arc 1 and Arc 2 for people who prefer reading MoL that way. You can find it at http://ebooks.armaell.fr/author-nobody103#MotherofLearning.
I love your series and drew a fan art illustration of Red Robe.
I tried to follow your description of red robe with darkness instead of a face, shooting purple beams of soulkiller magic.
Hope you like it. 🙂 I enjoyed your series a lot.
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Wow, thanks! This probably won’t be much of a surprise, but I love getting fanart. If you’re okay with it, I’ll add the drawing to the list. And if the answer to that is yes, to whom do I credit it? (That is, what name/nickname should I put as the artist and do you want it to link to your tumbler or not.)
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If you are adding me to the list, please credit me as “Sheep”. You can link directly to the image because most of my tumblr is non-MoL related stuff.
I will try to draw more fan art when I have some time! You put a lot of love and effort into MoL and to me, there’s no better way to show my appreciation than to create fan art. I could tell you how much I liked it, but showing you how much I liked it would say a lot more.
Thank you!!!
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As I promised, I drew some more fanart while waiting for the next chapter to come out (which came out today!!!). It fits the ending, very coincidentally.
It’s Zorian and Quatach Ichl, and a quick sketch of Zorian and Xvim.
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It’s amazing! I really like it. I’ll put a link to it next to your earlier work. (And just to be a dirty nitpicker: you put #xvin as a tag, but it should probably be #xvim if you’re trying to put Zorian’s mentor in there.)
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Oops, it was supposed to be Xvim but I pressed the wrong key by accident. Thanks for pointing it out!
Is there any official depiction of Zorian’s appearance? I looked at the other fanart and read the description from the story, but I was unsure about the details so I made it up – that’s why I gave Zorian a school uniform blazer; I didn’t know what other clothes to give him. If there is any artwork where you have decided “This is what Zorian looks like”, it would good to know for the next time I do an art piece. Or if you are a “use your imagination and remember he has glasses” person, that’s fine too.
There’s a bit of a discussion in the Reddit thread about it, haha. https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/54htvq/rt_hf_mother_of_learning_chapter_59_one_step/
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I am very much in the ‘use your imagination’ category, which is why I never bothered to describe people too much. Turns out people don’t really like this much, so I probably should have put in wordier descriptions. Oh well. Anyway, the only thing definitive about Zorian is that he is thin, has glasses, and that his hair and eyes are brown.
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I wonder if you’ve ever considered doing a fan art contest where you take a bunch of submissions for different characters and choose the one you like the best as the official character likeness.
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Can’t say that I have. To be honest, I prefer to have people produce fanart ‘organically’ rather than trying to force it like that.
Besides, as popular as my story is, I don’t think it’s at a level where I can just announce a contest like that and not look a bit premature/full of myself.
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