Where in YGGDRASIL, magic was just a power dynamic to abuse, in New World, magic is a real entity that doesn’t just end after your XP finishes. But the truth is that the dwellers of the New World are far, far superior. The story of Overlord is currently taking place in the New World, which is a setting that is similar to YGGDRASIL in its Middle Ages meets Fantasyaesthetic.

Because for the longest time, fans believed it was a real-life depiction of the game Momonga enjoyed as a human, known as YGGDRASIL. In order to get down to why Ainz is trapped in another dimension, we need to properly describe what that dimension even is. Today, we’re going to discuss why the Lich King is stuck in a world that isn’t his.

If other players were being brought forward from our reality, where are they, and why hasn’t Ainz encountered any of them yet? For answers to all this and more, let’s get right into Lore Analysis – where we take a look at the history of a specific story and analyze whether its mythos can help us divulge some of its secrets. However, the problem is that he seems to be the only human Overlord there. Well, he is a literal undead being who has to commandeer all these strange mechanics and characters. And that is where our protagonist, the fearsome Ainz Ooal Gown, thrives. The DMMO-RPG ( Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), known as YGGDRASIL, has shut down, but the New World remained. However, the fictional landscape in question is up for debate as well, considering it isn’t YGGDRASIL anymore but a dimension called the New World. Likely, someone has been bringing humans into the fictional landscape for a while now, but for what reason, we don’t know. While there isn’t a confirmed reason for Momonga being stuck in the game turned magical dimension over countless others, we do know he wasn’t the first one. But surprisingly, Overlordhas never really branched out with this. At best, it gets mentioned as some secret ‘ Chosen One’ trope or a step in the villain’s Master Plan.

The anime usually explores what happens after they get transported, but they rarely work on why they were chosen to do so in the first place. While I’m pretty sure that’s not how the saying goes, every anime fan that’s into Isekai must’ve wondered why their favorite characters are getting transported into different worlds. They always ask you how you Isekai’d but never why you Isekai’d.

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