Post originally by Chuck at 2003-07-09 19:55:14
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Yeah, I'd thought of that - it was the main reason it was only a nit-picking quirk rather than a full-blow annoyance. ~smirk~

That being said, though, I get the impression that White Wolf started using the "narrator-bias" concept back in the early days, when every new book would contradict something written in an earlier book... rather than admitting someone misunderstood, or missed an important detail along the way, it was simply explained away as just another misunderstanding in the World of Darkness (I'm thinking The Chaos Factor [Mage Book 8] was one of the worst offenders, here).

Of course, who says accidents can't work out for the best? That "implied bias" DOES add an extra layer of paranoia to things (whose story IS right?), even if it DOES make it impossible for us to ever get a "canon" answer to historical questions.