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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
7th Feb, 2021 03:30:19 PM
Cannot Tell a Lie includes magical examples.
Edited by Synchronicity
Strontiumsun
Since: May, 2016
7th Feb, 2021 05:32:38 PM
Thanks!
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A trope where a magical creature cannot outright lie. You see this a lot with fairies and other fey folk not being able to lie but being masters of half-truths. Godly characters sometimes have this restriction as well (think of Doc Scratch in Homestuck who couldn’t lie but rarely told the truth.) I couldn’t find the trope searching through the Fairy, Elves or Truth and Lies indexes.