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Is [[The Hero]] of your [[Fantasy]] tale [[Really 700 Years Old]] or your [[Big Bad]] is a [[Time Abyss]]? Perhaps [[Mr. Exposition]] gained most of his knowledge by being [[Older Than They Look]]? They are? Great. Now, how best to go about showing the audience that they are?
* '''Incriminating Evidence.''' Bob has maintained a series of identities down the ages, all with the same face and eventually, someone finds photos and / or paintings of him from hundreds of years ago. '''Or:''' Alice has a company of which she is CEO. And someone finds the documentation that shows she's been CEO since the company was originally founded. During the Renaissance.
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If a work has a character who falls into one of the immortality tropes you can be 99% certain that, at some point, their age is going to come up in conversation or otherwise be brought to the attention of the audience in (at least) one of those ways or a variation thereon.
Closely related to [[Really 700 Years Old]], [[Time Abyss]] and [[Older Than They Look]]. Often involves [[Dreaming of Times Gone By]], [[The Time of Myths]] and settings with a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]].
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{{quote|Exposure Of Immortality: When an immortal is outed by themselves or other parties.}}
* Evidence Of Immortality: Exposition that shows a character to be immortal or otherwise older than they appear to be [[Captain Obvious|can happen in any of the forms listed in]]
{{quote|Evidence Of Immortality: When documentary and / or objective evidence is presented to expose an immortal character (or when they do so themselves).}}
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** ''[[Drachenfels]]'' has this a couple of times, between Genevieve and the eponymous villain. Drachenfels himself has his immense age pointed early on; the adventurers reminding themselves that he was around when Sigmar Heldenhammer was still alive, a least two thousand years ago and coming across the remains of his infamous [[And I Must Scream|Poison Feast]] in which an ancestor of Oswald's was a victim.
* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Armageddon Trilogy'' features a version of [[Elvis Presley]] who evaded his own death and is [[Sharing a Body|bonded to a genetically-engineered sprout with TimeTravel powers]] who grants him near-immortality. Elvis looks the same and [[Paper-Thin Disguise|conceals his identity]] with several new names like '''T'''heodore '''H'''enry '''E'''dward King and [[Punny Name|Noah Never]] (it's a play on the Elvis song ''No, I Never'').
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' has more than a few instances of immortal characters and Elrond in particular evokes
* In ''St. Austin Friars'' a short story in [[Robert Westall]]'s anthology ''[[Break of Dark]]'', William Henry Drogo invites the Reverend to dinner and tells him several detailed stories about the past of Muncaster, as if he witness them directly. When challenged he simply states: ''"I am one hundred and ninety-two years old."''
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