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** Probably because they believed their own propaganda.
* In ''The Fall of the Kings'', earlier in the setting world's history, the kings and their wizards were overthrown and the ruling nobility burned all the works about magic that they could find and made it illegal even to claim that magic was real. This causes some frustration for one of the protagonists, a historian living 200 years later who has trouble finding reliable sources for his research on the wizards. Especially when he proposes a debate to prove that the wizards' magic was real, disregarding the fact that the aforementioned law is still on the books...
* Lampshaded in [[Belisarius Series]] when Ethopian [[Warrior Prince]] Eon while dying reflects that poets will make him out to be a hero when he really was an idiot. Also zig-zagged: being a hero and being an idiot are not incompatible, he did accomplish his strategic goal which was to destroy enemy sea power, and in general deserved every word a poet had to sing about him. However he had shown a bit of unprofessionalism in the action where he received his death blow that was forgiveable in a young warrior.
* In the Kinky Friedman novel ''Armadillos and Old Lace'' this trope may be the motive for murder.
* In ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'', Katrina's transformation from Bovinez to Mantalone was this engineered by the Xylien Society, which had to [[Unperson]] her old identity (and ink color) in a sort of enforced version of [[That Man Is Dead|That Gel Pen Is Dead]] in order to protect the rest of her family.
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