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* DifficultyLevels: Practice, Standard and Expert, which determine the hints related to the distaff. Practice shows the musical demarkations below the distaff. Expert hides the reactive glow in response to notes.

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* BiggerOnTheInside: The Weaver's tents.

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* BiggerOnTheInside: The Weaver's tents.tents appear to be small, but the main tent has three tapestries, and one large room for the loom.



* LargerOnTheInside: The weaver's huts appear to be the size of a tent, but the main hall has three tapestries, and a large room.


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* PermanentlyMissableContent: The Emptying and Sharpening drafts can be skipped. Emptying is required to view one of the crystal balls, and to optionally refill the wood box. Sharpening has an alternative and can be skipped.

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* LargerOnTheInside: The weaver's huts appear to be the size of a tent, but the main hall has three tapestries, and a large room.



* SupernaturalFearInducer: The Terror draft causes the caster to appear as the target's worst fear. This is more than a simple visual change, based on how it's used to scare away a dragon.



* VisibleInvisibility: The shepards are shown as an outline shortly before they make themselves visible.

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* VisibleInvisibility: The shepards shepherds are shown as an outline shortly before they make themselves visible.



* WorthlessYellowRocks: 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 to Gold" draft -- which is why the ''Book of Patterns'' notes the use of the draft is regulated to prevent inflation.
* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: if you try a draft before you've heard someone or something else play it, you get a comment from the player character ("I don't think I spun that quite right") or a shower of sparkles to indicate that you've hit an actual spell, but you don't get the expected effect.[[labelnote:*]]In the CD version, drafts weren't randomized between games, so on your second playthrough you knew all the drafts. In the floppy version, drafts were randomized at the start of games, so if you reopened an old save file, you'd know all the drafts you'd learned since the first time you opened it. Also, some of the drafts are easy to guess: Night Vision, for example, only has four possibilities.[[/labelnote]]

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What use is gold to a race guild 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 to Gold" draft -- which is why the ''Book of Patterns'' notes the use of the draft is regulated to prevent inflation.
** In contrast, using the Gold to Straw draft on the first pile of gold will cause Bobbin to suggest spinning it back, but he will still comment about the gold being a nuisance.
* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: if If you try a draft before you've heard someone or something else play it, you get a comment from the player character ("I don't think I spun that quite right") or a shower of sparkles to indicate that you've hit an actual spell, but you don't get the expected effect.[[labelnote:*]]In the CD version, drafts weren't randomized between games, so on your second playthrough you knew all the drafts. In the floppy version, drafts were randomized at the start of games, so if you reopened an old save file, you'd know all the drafts you'd learned since the first time you opened it. Also, some of the drafts are easy to guess: Night Vision, for example, only has four possibilities.[[/labelnote]]
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* VisibleInvisibility: The shepards are shown as an outline shortly before they make themselves visible.
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** Bobbin is implied to be an even greater master of this, since he can figure the patterns from observing things in reality and "spells" from other guilds by hearing them as music... that he can weave as threads on his distaff. This in turn causes him to have an exponential growth as a Weaver when the game starts and he gets to see the world, very quickly mastering the fabled Transcendence draft.

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** Bobbin is implied to naturally be an even greater master of this, with an exceptionally fast grasp of things, since he can figure the patterns from observing things in reality and "spells" from other guilds by hearing them as music... that he can weave as threads on his distaff. This in turn causes him to have an exponential growth as a Weaver when the game starts and he gets to see the world, very quickly mastering the fabled Transcendence draft.draft over the course of the game.
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** Bobbin is implied to be an even greater master of this, since he can figure the patterns from observing things in reality and "spells" from other guilds by hearing them as music... that he can weave as threads on his distaff. This in turn causes him to have an exponential growth as a Weaver when the game starts and he gets to see the world, very quickly mastering the fabled Transcendence draft.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: PlayedForDrama in the radio play -- the elders are so piously committed to their outdated laws that they refuse to use the Loom to bring health and prosperity to their people, even though its well within their abilities and their society is on the verge of collapsing. While pleading her case with them, Cygna loses her temper and implies that this is only an excuse to hide them losing control over the Loom, but we don't find out how much truth there is in this.

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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: PlayedForDrama in the radio play -- the elders are so piously committed to their outdated laws that they refuse to use the Loom to bring health and prosperity to their people, even though its it is well within their abilities and their society is on the verge of collapsing. While pleading her case with them, Cygna loses her temper and implies that this is only an excuse to hide them losing control over the Loom, but we don't find out how much truth there is in this.
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* MasterOfThreads: The Weavers are able to "weave" far more than just fabric, and utilize the ability to cast powerful magic and even create life.
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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Bobbin is able to restore dead people by way of the Healing draft, thanks to their souls being nearby and their bodies relatively intact. However, as Hetchel is a victim of the Unmaking draft, there's absolutely nothing left of her to resurrect save for a single feather, which Chaos cruelly claims as a souvenier.]]

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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Bobbin is able to restore dead people by way of the Healing draft, thanks to their souls being nearby and their bodies relatively intact. However, as Hetchel is a victim of the Unmaking draft, there's absolutely nothing left of her to resurrect save for a single feather, which Chaos cruelly claims as a souvenier.souvenir.]]

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