Quote Originally Posted by chionophile View Post
I thought this was a given. There are people who think he's actually in a game?
Some lines of interpretation draw a distinction between characters who are part of the game and characters who seem to represent player avatars.

Trying to distinguish between "really inside a turn-based strategy game" and "in a universe that follows laws corresponding to the rules of a turn-based strategy game" based solely on evidence seen within Erfworld reminds me of the joke about the literary historian who concluded that the Iliad and the Odyssey weren't written by Homer, but rather by some other ancient Greek with the same name.