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* In a Poem Within A Book example, "The Legion's Pride", recited by a soldier in ''[[Lord Darcy|A Study In Sorcery]]'', is couched as a posthumous declaration by another [[Alternate History|Anglo-French]] soldier, who'd died during a peacekeeping mission to avert conflict between rival German baronies. |
* In a Poem Within A Book example, "The Legion's Pride", recited by a soldier in ''[[Lord Darcy|A Study In Sorcery]]'', is couched as a posthumous declaration by another [[Alternate History|Anglo-French]] soldier, who'd died during a peacekeeping mission to avert conflict between rival German baronies. |
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* In an oddly justified example, the story of ''The Children's Hospital'' by Chris Adrian is told by "the recording angel," a being required to observe and record in exact detail [[The End of the World as We Know It]] and the life of a woman (our protagonist) who will play a key role in it, from her birth to her death. Said recording angel just happens to be what is left of the main protagonist's older brother, who committed suicide as a teenager, several years before the events of the book. In the midst of the story, he occasionally cuts back to a childhood memory of himself and the protagonist, although he never refers to the brother in the first person in these scenes. |
* In an oddly justified example, the story of ''The Children's Hospital'' by Chris Adrian is told by "the recording angel," a being required to observe and record in exact detail [[The End of the World as We Know It]] and the life of a woman (our protagonist) who will play a key role in it, from her birth to her death. Said recording angel just happens to be what is left of the main protagonist's older brother, who committed suicide as a teenager, several years before the events of the book. In the midst of the story, he occasionally cuts back to a childhood memory of himself and the protagonist, although he never refers to the brother in the first person in these scenes. |
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* The prologue of the first book of the''[[Magnus Chase]]'' series "The Sword of Summer" has Magnus explain to the readers that they are going to read how Magnus died in agony.(which happens in the second chapter if this troper remembers correctly) the rest of the book and the sequel books involve him going on adventures through the nine realms and battling various Monsters, going up against various gods, competeing in war games in Vahalla and preventing Ragnarok. |
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