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[[Digital Distribution|The CD version is available for purchase off of Steam.]] Give it a look sometime.
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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: In the versions of the game with the original (voiceless) dialogue, Fleece the shepherdess has blue eyes. In the rewritten PC talkie CD, she has green eyes.
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* [[Dream Melody]]: C' - F - G - C.
* [[Dummied Out]]: An early screenshot showed a room in the Glassmakers' City with three giant sandglasses, two of which had run out and were sealed up; the last one was open at the top and a worker was pouring sand into it to keep it running. The three sandglasses of course represent {{spoiler|the three Shadows, of which the first two have long since passed, and the third is imminent}}. The room was ultimately cut to save disk space. The sandglasses can still be glimpsed in the 16-color version, in the wide shot of the city (though they were painted out in the VGA upgrade).
** The existence of a puzzle can be deduced: {{spoiler|Bobbin was probably going to use the Emptying draft (which has no use in the finished game, and which you can play by the time you get to Crystalgard) to empty the sandglasses. The running sands mark the time remaining until the Third Shadow: they were being replenished indefinitely, but presumably Bobbin screws that up and reduces the symbolic time until the Apocalypse to nil. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]!}}
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Bishop Mandible and Chaos.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: Bishop Mandible attempts to summon Chaos from the realm of the dead. {{spoiler|[[Genre Blindness|This goes about as well as you would expect.]]}}
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** Also, a bobbin is a component of a sewing machine around which thread is wound, and the briefly-seen elders of the weavers' guild are named after the Fates of Greek myth, who wove threads corresponding to mortals' lives.
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Bobbin was miraculously born from the Loom itself, {{spoiler|and can resurrect people,}} many will die for his name, but the world's salvation lies in his hands. [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Ring any bells?]]
* [[Now Do It Again Backwards]] / [[Magic
** It's implied that Bobbin is the first to figure out that this is possible: the manual makes no mention of reversing drafts, and Bobbin is genuinely surprised when he finds out it's possible.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The game's dragon is female, afraid of fire, loves mutton and speaks with a Cockney accent.
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* [[Theme Naming]]: All guild members have names related to their professions, such as Threadbare, Goodmold, or Nailbender.
* [[Unwinnable]]: If you didn't write down the notes for the drafts or don't consult a walkthrough, you'll get stuck and need to revert to an earlier point.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The CD version, which featured a full CD-quality talkie soundtrack, although [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|much of the previous versions' dialogue, animations, portraits and music were cut]] to fit the whole thing on one disc. Notably, the abbreviated talkie version's script was edited by [[Orson Scott Card]].
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Chaos talks like this.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: Beautifully subverted with the Dyeing draft. Bobbin '''really''' hates how he can only make objects green, but it helps him save a flock of sheep later. {{spoiler|As the only white-colored moving object, he gets taken instead}}.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: The dragon is afraid of fire, despite being its [[Breath Weapon]].
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Averted. Mandible doesn't kill Bobbin because he needs Bobbin to demonstrate the Opening Draft, and Chaos doesn't kill Bobbin because he needs Bobbin to demonstrate how the Loom works.
* [[Wonder Child]]: The protagonist Bobbin is given birth when the childless Lady Cygna weaves a magical thread into the Great Pattern, after which she is banished by being turned into a swan.
* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: What use is gold to a race that can bend the fabric of the universe itself to its will? Indeed it doesn't even require a weaver to reach a particularly high level before being able to successfully cast the Straw Into Gold draft.
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