Talk:Six Great Gods/@comment-30009254-20161002002851/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180606200919

Ainz suspects everyone of being players.

The problem is that it doesn't matter to the narrative whether Ainz suspects someone of being a player until he has a probability of encountering them. Ainz can look at the magic items suggested by the Boastful Sage, but he gets the information up front that the Boastful Sage only suggested these things, the actual implementation was carried out by skilled casters from the New World. He also probably has acquired enough information on the Boastful Sage to know biographical details like his date of death (not that Ainz would regard that as certain to be true).

The majority of POV information we get from Ainz concerns things he has known all along and is just remembering because it has become relevant, but which was never even hinted that he knew because it wasn't important before. This holds true for most facts about the New World, we don't find out those facts when Ainz discovers them, we mostly find them out when he recalls having learned them earlier (increasingly often, MUCH earlier).

This approach is appropriate to the scale and type of narrative, it would be unforgivable in a detective mystery limited to a single investigation, but Overlord is nothing of the kind.