The mental state of being fully locked into absorbing, analysing, or discussing the lore of a fictional universe or ongoing real-world saga. When someone is in lore mode they're not casually engaging — they're cross-referencing timelines, questioning narrative inconsistencies, and building theories with the intensity of an investigative journalist. The term applies equally to gaming sessions where someone ignores the main quest to read every item description, and to fan spaces where a thread has spiralled from a simple question into a full cosmology debate at 2am.
Don't talk to him until the credits roll — he just started a new playthrough and he's in full lore mode.
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