What is the Lore System in Isekai Power Fantasy Novels?

[Eldoria]

What is the Lore System in Isekai Power Fantasy Novels?

I've read hundreds of novels/manga/manhwa/manhua about isekai power fantasy with systems, but very few provide a valid, solid, and coherent explanation of the lore system. There are two examples of popular novels that can be used as references for lore systems and explain the lore system, namely Kumo Desu ga, Nani Ka? and Log Horizon.

In the Kumo Desu ga, it is explained that the system was created by an ancient divine entity to maintain the balance of the world's MA energy.

Meanwhile, in Log Horizon, the system is a logical consequence if the RPG game becomes a real world with a very detailed, solid, and coherent explanation such as the player character cannot die and can only restart, but this has implications for social crime.

The question is, what about other novels? Does the lore system adopt a similar approach to Kumo Desu or Log Horizon?

 

[BigBadBoi]

the lore is that the author is a hack and slapped it in because it's popular.

 

[NotaNuffian]

In Defiance of the Fall, it is because there's a retard named Peerless Emperor shithead deciding to gamify growth for "reasons"

I did not read far so I don't know why did that guy actually do that for.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

The lore is, authors who use it are creative impotents. They can't come up with an interesting and unique power system so they slap on systems. And even if they use some bullshit reasoning like, "It was made by god" or whatever, they are still creatively bankrupt bitches. The only way to justify system is if the story takes place inside of a game and all the players have it.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Unless the author plans to pull a (reverse) Star Ocean 3 final plot twist or some Digimon-esque "all-encompassing cyberspace that is actually a layer of the real world but kinda not" setting, they're just lazy and do it because "system stuff" is popular on the sites they post their stories.

 

[NotaNuffian]

The lore is, authors who use it are creative impotents. They can't come up with an interesting and unique power system so they slap on systems. And even if they use some bullshit reasoning like, "It was made by god" or whatever, they are still creatively bankrupt bitches. The only way to justify system is if the story takes place inside of a game and all the players have it.

Ouch for calling me out. T_T

Yeah, I deserve it.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Well, in my Digital Cowboy/Digital Cowboy Dane, the character died and was literally drawn into an AI-driven video game. And yes, there are reasons why it happened - and all PCs (Travelers) and a few NPCs (NTs - though they have a very limited one, and usually only gain access if elevated to Minion or Sidekick level by a Traveler) share this same System.
I hope I am not a creative impotent, but freely admit that I am a bit of a hack.

 

[HisDivineShadow]

 

[Hoshino]

The lore is that the Scarlet King became sentient and realized that he is a character in a novel, a fictional world. So he wants to destroy everything, including the novel itself.

 

[xedale]

Insanity? It isn't like our mind doesn't have any methods to strengthen our body, it just doesn't want to. Going from this to a mind that agrees, but only as long as you play its games...