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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
Usually a video game trope anyway - you have to retrieve an item from a dungeon to complete your quest, and npcs or lore hype it up as a place on one has ever returned from. I swear I remember reading a trope page along those lines, and that either the description itself or one of the examples pointed out the Fridge Logic inherent in the trope: If the item is in a place where no one has ever survived, then how do you even know it's there, and how did it get there in the first place?