: Re: How to work in a piece of information that no MC knows, when writing in 3PLtd? In my story, there is a group of four characters that are called upon a classic macguffin hunt. The characters

Remember that terms like "third person limited" are not meant to be jails. They are descriptive.

If it works for your story to have one (or a handful) of scenes outside your protagonists' viewpoint, go right ahead and do it. No editor will break down your door with an giant eraser to make you change anything.

The Harry Potter series is told from Harry's POV, except two opening chapters (books 1 and 6, IIRC) which are just third-person limited, focusing on other people. That doesn't negate the rest of the tale.

In terms of flow, you can present it as a short chapter, an interlude, a prologue, or some other form of break so the reader knows that the "camera" is moving outside what's been presented before, and this is something special happening at the same time somewhere else.

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