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{{trope}}
[[File:LoungeingCaveman2 6172.jpg|frame|[[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]? He's made it into delightful hors d'oeuvres.]]
{{quote|'''Illyria:''' I've nowhere to go. My kingdom is long dead. Long dead. There's so much I don't understand. I've become overwhelmed. I'm unsure of my place.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The [[Hologram]] of Queen Serenity in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* {{spoiler|Hohenheim}} in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
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* Karla, from ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' is this. She hails from Kastuul, an ancient kingdom of sorcery which is implied to have once been the capital of Lodoss itself. A powerful sorceress in her own right, she survived the destruction of the magic city by infusing a mystic circlet with her soul, retaining all her memories and powers as the circlet possesses the bodies of numerous hosts over the subsequent 500 years.
* ''[[End of Evangelion]]'' reveals in the penultimate scene that this was Unit 01's true purpose: since humans can't exist anywhere but [[Physical God|Eva]]s can, [[Sealed Good in a Can|Yui]] reached the logical conclusion of uploading her soul into [[Super Prototype|Unit 01]] and become an everlasting monument. That she was used to fight [[Cosmic Horror]]s in the meantime is just a perk.
== Comic Books ==
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* [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[She]]'': Ayesha spends most of her time doing this to the main characters.
* Robert E. Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian]] has a knack for often running into this trope.
* Any High Elf still in Middle Earth in the Third Age of [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s legendarium fits this trope, but the prize has to go to Galadriel, who has has lost her home multiple times by ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and used the power of her Ring to make Lothlorien itself a Living Relic, since as the ages pass on [[The Magic Goes Away]], and in the end even she has to leave. However, the oldest Elf to be still living in Middle Earth is actually Cirdan, who is implied to have been one of the Elves that awoke at the beginning of time, and intends to stay in Middle Earth making ships until the last Elf leaves.
* Daetrin Haal of ''[[The Madness Season]]'' is one of these, as he is the only person old enough to remember what Earth was like before the Tyr invaded and subjugated humankind. His parents were also such, as they witnessed the fall of European civilization into the Dark Ages.
* ''[[Dark Reflections Trilogy]]'' has a few characters who [[Really 700 Years Old|remembers the civilization of ancient Egypt]], but most prominent example may be {{spoiler|The Flowing Queen herself}}, who lived in the age when gods walked the Earth. She was stated to be much older than any form of life in the sea, so this borders on a [[Time Abyss]].
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* In [[Endless Ocean Blue World]], you can find 3 extinct creatures, including one distinctively called "Living Fossil", but most notably, a plesiosaur.
* The Weapons Master in [[Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure]] is one of these; the last Arkeyan, according to one of the story scrolls.
* {{spoiler|Elh and Béluga}} are the last two Paladins in ''[[Solatorobo]]''. Their home was destroyed 300 years ago, and while they seem to fit in fairly well with present-day people (no mentions of ancient clothes or [[Ye Olde
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series has several characters that serve as living remnants of pre-nuclear war America. Besides a number of pre-war [[Our Zombies Are Different|Ghouls]], prominent examples include President Eden, Mr. House, ZAX and SKYNET, the Think Tank, and Professor Calvert, all of whom are either sentient computers or [[Brain In a Jar|Brains in a Jar]] of one sort or another.
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'': {{spoiler|The great dragon Nolalothcaragascint (usually shortened to Nolaloth) was bribed by Illefarn to destroy the [[Big Bad|King of Shadows]]. The King struck him down after a great battle. Illefarn transmuted his heart into crystal and bound his soul to it. Nolaloth has since been consulted by people seeking to defeat the King once and for all, first the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Githyanki]], then Ammon Jerro, and finally the [[Player Character|Knight-Captain]]. It is the KC that Nolaloth finally asks to kill him by destroying his heart, a task complicated by the fact that the valley left by the mountain-sized dragon's crash is now populated by a pair of young black dragons.}}
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