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The answers so far concentrate on late introduction being a bad thing. However it can be used very effectively.

Ursula K. Le Guin didn't mention a specific detail of the main character in Earth Sea for quite some time. By then the reader may have formed his own picture and she shattered it when finally revealing it. I think it was very well done (and I was interested to see how GorÅ Miyazaki would deal with this in the Anime adaption but unfortunately he didn't. At all. The SciFi miniseries did equally bad.)

Not going into specific detail because it would be a spoiler. But it can be googled easily.

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