: You must make the rules of your world clear As your antagonist is disguising his identity through the use of these magic masks the first step should be showing the reader that such magic

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You must make the rules of your world clear

As your antagonist is disguising his identity through the use of these magic masks the first step should be showing the reader that such magic is possible. Once a reader knows that it is possible for such masterful illusions to be created they will try to link less obvious clues, such as speech patterns (if a character has a lisp or habitually uses certain phrases), movement patterns (if a character has a limp or surprising strength) and thought patterns (if a character has a specific goal).

For example in your question you give a couple examples of the masks Loki will wear, those masks seem to have a shared disdain for humans, from trying to break a person's sanity or convincing followers to kidnap, if all Loki's masks have a similar underlying disdain for humans a careful reader may start to link these characters together and begin to suspect an illusion.

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