Masquerade (trope)
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Masquerade (trope)
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A masquerade is a trope found in speculative fiction, in which a group of supernatural or otherwise extraordinary people hide their existence from the mainstream society in the given setting. The term was first coined by Robert A. Heinlein's Methuselah's Children in 1958. Those hidden groups may form a wainscot society, wherein they live adjacent to mainstream society in a covert manner, but overall remain their own distinct entity with their own culture. In a fantasy context, it means that magi
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Fantasy and speculative fiction trope involving a hidden society within the real world
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(trope)
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2023-04-15T16:20:29Z
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