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* [[No Name Given]]: The main character/[[Narrator]]. We know he's a Catholic priest, comfortable with (mid-1980s) cutting-edge technology, and has a large extended family -- but we never learn his name.
* [[Player and Protagonist Integration]]: The protagonist priest is thrust into the role of God for a small fantasy world he interfaces with via the video game. As God he is the Adviser to literally dozens of characters, although he tends to focus on eight or ten of them.
* [[Possession]]: Ranora briefly manifests in the "real world" by possessing the narrator's relative Michelle and calling him on the phone.
* [[Post Modernism]]: The book's direct exploration of the nature of the blurry boundaries between fiction and "reality" -- aided by the suggestion that the unnamed narrator is supposed to be author Greeley, adding yet another blurry level of possible reality -- definitely verge onto postmodern themes.
* [[Punctuation Shaker]]: Lightly applied to some of the few words of The Land's native language that come through the computer interface untranslated, such as women's names.
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