Third-Person Omniscient Point of View: Explained & Defined - The Art of Narrative

With a third-person omniscient point of view, the author uses a narrator who knows everything about the story. The narrator has a ‘god's eye view' of the narrative. In third-person omniscient, the narrator can get into any character's head and describe their thoughts and feelings. This kind of narrator also knows the events of the plot. The narrator can foreshadow, to the reader, events yet to come.

The narrator is the author, which means they have complete knowledge of the story and its characters. For this reason, these narrators will usually not be a character in the story and remain unnamed figure who retells the story from a distance. In most people's minds, they will assume the narrator is the author.