- Alien Geometries: The Fathoms are this, according to Word of God; despite having specifically designated entry points in the material world, the Fathoms have no set location themselves, being located both everywhere and nowhere.
- Background Magic Field: The City of Delphi is a magically charged location with abundant mana reserves due to its proximity to the Fathoms. Word of God has confirmed the reason the Auctoritas Magicae set up the Enclave (its headquarters) in Delphi, Illinois was because of the magic concentration there, with the Enclave being right on top of the entrance to the Fathoms.
- Cast Full of Gay: One of the two protagonists is transgender, the deuteragonist is in a homosexual relationship, and Word of God says the second installment will explore the transfemininity of two existing characters — one of whom is the second protagonist, Rory.
- Darker and Edgier: The Nullweaver Cycle is a Spiritual Successor to the web serial in the same multiverse, but is much more explicit and more disturbing. In the authors' own words, "If the web serial is rated R, then the novel is rated NC-17."
- Heartwarming in Hindsight: When Rory first heard the news about the golem attack and its casualties, he calls a number he had "wrenched from distant memory". According to Word of God, his worried call was to Jules' old number.
- Power Tattoo: The authors have teased that the method Jules uses to convert his own essential energy (mana) to prima materia is possibly just a rediscovery of an ancient technique. They have also clarified that Jules can and does modify and upgrade his tattoos to enable different kinds of transmutations.
- Super-Empowering: While not discussed in the text, the authors have mentioned that in-universe it is common knowledge that La Messe Noire (one of the factions of the Six Orders Alliance) initially started as a group of mundane nobles who somehow turned themselves into mages in the 18th century. (The secret of how the founders turned themselves into mages died with them, and now La Messe Noire mages are treated the same as the other faction's mages.)
- Superpowerful Genetics: Word of God has clarified that mages always have mage kids, even if the other parent is mundane.
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