History Main / DayOldLegend

* ''{{Nier}}'' can be guilty of this: Take your weapons to be upgraded and you get some backstories claiming that the weapon once caused an ancient tragedy.

There are some possibilities here. Perhaps the item was made, then became ExcaliburInTheRust; but Rusty Excalibur had its own name and legend. Maybe you've merely rediscovered an old formula. Maybe you're not actually crafting a new weapon, but using some sort of SummonMagic to call the item from wherever it's resting. Maybe it'll go back in time after you're done with it and have been used then. Maybe in [[LegacyCharacter this universe items]] can be [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]]?

* In ''DragonAgeII'', killing a nameless high dragon will let you loot her Fire Gland, which, in turn, can be crafted by a local enchanter into an amulet named Urzara's Tooth. This unlocks a Codex entry, which claims that Urzara's Tooth is a 200-year-old relic of a dragon-worshiping cult.

* A slight example in ''TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. Items have several levels depending on the quality, the highest level being "Legendary". So with a high enough smithing skill, you can forge a weapon or piece of armour, then immediately take it to a grindstone or workbench and make it legendary, despite being literally seconds old.

* The ''MonsterHunter'' series abounds in this, possibly justified in that hunting is a business that has been going on for hundreds of years, and as long as you have [[TwentyBearAsses sufficient materials]] you can make endless duplicates, thus implying that all the backstoried weapons you use are simply replicas of the versions that made the legends.

...Maybe we're overthinking it? Justified, somewhat, in that eBay users tend to do the same thing, fluffing their sold items with an InformedAbility or two. Perhaps this is just a way to "add value" to a newly made item.

* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}''. Many of the weapons you fuse have descriptions that do ''not'' match what you just did.

There are some possibilities here. Perhaps the item was made, then became ExcaliburInTheRust; but Rusty Excalibur had its own name and legend. Maybe you've merely rediscovered an old formula. Maybe you're not actually crafting a new weapon, but using some sort of SummonMagic to call the item from wherever it's resting. Maybe in [[LegacyCharacter this universe items]] can be [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]]?

* Averted in {{Neverwinter Nights}}, where a weapon or piece of armor made by in-game will have the flavor text describe it being made by the specific blacksmith, in the current year and for the current campaign [[http://www.gamebanshee.com/neverwinternights/equipment/images/runehammerplus1.jpg but in the same style as the "ancient" equipment]] so it feels like the player is crafting their legend for future adventurers as they play the game.

...Maybe we're overthinking it? Justified, somewhat, in that eBay users tend to do the same thing, fluffing their sold items with an ImpliedAttribute or two. Perhaps this is just a way to "add value" to a newly made item.

...Maybe we're overthinking it?

* ''{{Iji}}''. Many of the weapons you fuse have descriptions that do ''not'' match what you just did.

...maybe we're overthinking it?

There are some possibilities here. Perhaps the item was made, then became ExcaliburInTheRust; but Rusty Excalibur had its own name and legend. Maybe you've merely rediscovered an old formula. Maybe in [[LegacyCharacter this universe items]] can be [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]]?