What is it called when you namedrop something insignificant and make it significant? - Taric Lore

Darrosh Jewfist·4/9/2016, 11:35:20 PM·4 votes·1,346 views

As he approached the summit, Taric was challenged by a seemingly neverending myriad of conflicting realities, each warped existence offering a new, horrifying vision. Taric experienced the infinite fates that could befall those who had no one to protect them in their times of crisis. He saw the** Alabaster Library** engulfed in pitch and flame, and still he dashed into the roiling inferno to retrieve the poetry of Tung. He screamed in rage as the Frostguard ran the last dreamstag off a blind cliff, and then leapt into the abyss himself in a desperate attempt to save it. Before the ebon gates of Noxus, Taric slumped to his knees at the sight of Garen’s shattered body chained aloft as a warning. Between Taric and his friend stood the sum total of Noxus’s might.

So in this passage of Taric's new lore, Riot name drops 'Alabaster Library', 'poetry and Tung', and 'dreamstag'.

All of these things are insignificant mentioning of things that sound cool. Like it has no meaning because we aren't told what these things are except at face value but they're supposedly important. I'm not sure what this is called.

Is this part of the 'Rule of Cool' trope?

7 Comments

GreenLore4/10/2016, 10:33:33 AM4 votes

I think what you mean is the checkovs gun. Basically something is introduced as a minor detail early on,that becomes important.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun

Garentheon4/10/2016, 10:21:35 AM2 votes

What a tool

Dreamspitter4/12/2016, 2:21:53 AM2 votes

Well what you're asking for is a lot of extra writing. You'd need a book just on fauna of Valoran, and then another book on culture, and history.

Ethereal3114/12/2016, 11:04:07 AM1 votes

It's not Rule of Cool http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool exactly since it's kind of a super trope, nor is Orwell exactly talking about that here: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

Looking under pretentious yields this discussion though: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14268922430A36595800&page=0

Deep are ideas so powerful they insert themselves into your consciousness and imagination without conscious effort on your part. They stand on their own.

Pretentious makes itself look deep by casting disrespect on other, better known and more popular ideas. Take away the "this is better than that" aspect and there isnt very much left.

These are all falling very close towards pretense at least because of how they're saying that 'My X is better than your Y' to some extent.

Dreamspitter4/12/2016, 12:05:50 PM1 votes

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So in this passage of Taric's new lore, Riot name drops 'Alabaster Library', 'poetry and Tung', and 'dreamstag'.

All of these things are insignificant mentioning of things that sound cool. Like it has no meaning because we aren't told what these things are except at face value but they're supposedly important. I'm not sure what this is called.

Is this part of the 'Rule of Cool' trope?

#Think of it this way....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QefqJ7YhbWQ

"I watched C-beams... glitter in the dark near the Tannhouser Gate."