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* [[Dan Browned]]: The libraries are actually funny to read. Not only do they often have gaps in knowledge about certain subjects like [[Real Life]] history and math, but even some of the books about the more fantastic elements don't match up with other books. Either there are varying views of history, or a [[Continuity Snarl|problem with the author's story]], which is even more hilarious since [[Bad Liar|it's all the same author writing it]].
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Lilith uses dark powers, but is otherwise friendly.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: There's a few songs that pop up later with a distorted tempo. In particular, one of the vocal songs is muffled and slowed to the point of just being a creepy drone.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Yazim Jianne's reason for serving Belial (in this case, his wife).
* [[Deadly Distant Finale]]: Only Nevras and Ambrosia, but it's made clear that except for immortals like angels/demons, that [[Life Will Kill You]].
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* [[Demoted Memories]]: With a bit of [[Medium Awareness]]. Ambrosia manages to convince herself that her quest never happened, that this is a [[Dying Dream]], and that she's a video game character. {{spoiler|She's right on [[Medium Awareness|at least one count]].}}
* [[Derailing Love Interests]]: Also {{spoiler|[[Discount Lesbians]]}}
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Poor Ambrosia never can catch a break. She finally makes some money thanks to a generous donation and uses it to buy something. Giant worms attack her, ruining the purchase.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Played straight and averted. The party gets Cthulhu as a bounty, of all things. The first time, they lose horribly, coupled with with what you might expect from such a loss. Later, they try again, and are able to beat him. Averted with their fight against God though. While the video game version of this does allow you to win with effort, in the book, God beats the party by doing stuff like blowing on them or with the [[Finger-Poke of Doom]].
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Aqorm's mechanics. She basically is a weaked-down fighter with stealing ability and a [[Wild Magic|geomancy]] effect. To use her to her full effect requires gaining loads of money, and then charging her to her limit break. Since her limit break basically spends money to deal damage, and the more she has the more damage (but also the more she spends). Then there's the fact that she can take apart mechs [[Final Fantasy X|Riku-style]].
* [[Dirty Communists]]: a number of object lessons on why socialism doesn't work, using apocalyptic imagery to show happens when the [[Cosmopolitan Council|Anti-Government Council]] fails and big government takes over. In addition to causing widespread suffering, the new government isn't even profitable, because when the government wants to enforce the Mark of the Beast (here, a RFID chip inside people to track how wealth is spent and tax accordingly), most people prefer to stay broke. All it does is make the government run out of money when they overtax the poor, and the rich figure out how to keep their money.
** There are also numerous scenes where people actually are called "dirty communists" and one of them involves a town full of vampires and how they suck the lifeblood of others. One chapter has one popping raised fist first out of a coffin.
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]:
** In order to become the [[Title Drop|Oracle of Tao]], Ambrosia has to collect a series of scattered tattoos by realizing [[An Aesop|some profound truth]] from various [[Hermit Guru|wise people]] (sort of a [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Lost Years of Merlin|The Seven Songs of Merlin]]).
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* [[Female Angel, Male Demon]]: Inverted. Though the male angel has [[Ambiguous Gender]], and the female demon is highly aggressive.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Type 3 and 4.
* [[Fertile Feet]]: Ambrosia, after becoming the Oracle, grows massive amounts of some generic weed, most likely [https://web.archive.org/web/20101209063619/http://www.co.stevens.wa.us/weedboard/other%20weeds/ht1.jpg something called Houndstooth]. Also, in flashbacks ( {{spoiler|since this power was originally hers}} ), she as a kid grew tiny sprouts inside her shadow when she moved.
* [[The Fettered]]: Ambrosia. Which is good, because she's [[Cute and Psycho]], and without her rules she'd go totally [[Ax Crazy]].
* [[The Four Gods]]: A group of bosses in game.
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* [[The Heart]]: Ambrosia, and later {{spoiler|[[The Empath|Tamashii]], her daughter.}}
* [[Hermit Guru]]: Several.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Estheriel. [[Ambiguous Gender|Her/his]] heart's in the right place. It's just that, being an angel of justice, he's a bit of an [[Large Ham|over-the-top]] [[Knight Templar]]. In fact, during the entirety of her in-plot backstory events, he has several [[Pet the Dog]] moments, and the only [[Kick the Dog]] one she has, is [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?|when someone else forces his hand]]. Her only flaw besides that is really that he's willing to [[I Did What I Had to Do|accept the risks of her actions]], in order to try to make the world a better place. Even the commonly used [[Utopia Justifies the Means|End Justifies The Means]] is subverted, as he throws away the [[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Ring of Nibelung]] and later seals it away when it causes [[The Lord of the Rings|two brothers to murder each other]]. Not that it helps, unfortunately, as the [[No Man of Woman Born|means she uses as a failsafe to the sealing]] [[Loophole Abuse|has a loophole that the Ring uses to undo him]].
* [[Heroic Neutral]]:
** Nevras actually quotes from [[The Godfather]] when he hears of his new quest:
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* [[Time Limit Boss]]: Some bosses need to be beaten in about 30 turns, or they use a killer breath attack on you.
* [[Title Drop]]: Several times, as it's Ambrosia's goal.
* [[Token
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Ambrosia.
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: Reconstructed. The Puffer Sushi is a great item which gets rid of ''all status effects'' (including death) and restores hp/mp. But rather than simply being a very rare item, it is available in some stores for about 9000 gp, when monsters usually don't hold money and you have to make it selling [[Vendor Trash]]. Even when you actually manage to find it for free, it carries a pretty terrible risk. It can heal the party member fully, or it can kill them. The risk of use makes it something that you have to save for when you're really desperate, or the party member is already dead.
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* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Part of the battle format. Any character that completes their romance sidequests [[Berserk Button|gets extremely mad]] if the other dies.
* [[Voice Actors]]. According to [[Word of God]], the game is currently being voice casted for a few opening and ending sequences (casting was done on starnow.com):
** Ambrosia, is [
** Ambrosia for the [[New Game+]] was originally planned using multiple actors, [[Loads and Loads of Roles|but now all roles]] seem to be done by [
** Bakamaru, Tamashii's boyfriend, is [
** [[Large Ham|Estheriel]], is [[Take a Third Option|neither of the two original candidates]]. Instead, since this was a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], and [[Narm Charm|a bit of a silly role]], [
** [[Little Miss Almighty|God]], is [
** Lilith is voiced by [http://www.starnow.com/profile/ProfileDetail.aspx?m_id=1660438 Meena Rayann].
** [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Nevras]], is [[Man of a Thousand Voices|talented actress]] [
** Priests are played by [[Relationship Voice Actor|Alan Hooker]] (the author's father).
** [[Dawson Casting|Tamashii]], Ambrosia's {{spoiler|daughter}}, is [
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