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One of the hardest parts of making a fantasy or science fiction world can be names. Not just for people, but for metaphysical concepts, alien races or awe-inspiring devices/weapons. When writers don't want to make up a new word, they'll often take a short, evocative term and capitalize it. The practice is still so commonplace that J. R. R. Tolkien (who was a language professor at a respected university) decided to use a trick of combining Capital Letters Are Magic with commonplace words from languages he'd made up for fun in his spare time to create all of his fictional-but-now-well-known fantasy names. Here on this site we get a lot of tropes this way as well, such as the The Load and The Dragon.note Of course, some of that's due to the wiki software's conventions. In universe, a character may comment on how they can "hear" the Capital Letters. Of course, this is easily explained as proper nouns have inflections, pauses, and emphasis that common nouns do not. Ideally, this will give the concept a simple, descriptive name that doesn't sound too dopey. Unfortunately, this can cause hiccups when they want to use the word in its usual sense, and often leads to eye-rolling from jaded fantasy fans. Alongside ordinary words that take on special new meanings, neologisms are frequently capitalized as well. If fantasy characters talk about smeerps instead of Smeerps, then it may throw the reader off. (Even if these characters are Smeerp farmers who wouldn't think of the animals as "special", and who also ride horses instead of Horses.) Well-established fantasy concepts, such as dragons and vampires, don't get this treatment. It seems that lowercase words feel more orthodox and "official", and it's therefore incorrect for a fictional world to have a "new" one without the characters somehow noticing that something is different. Brand Names Are Better is another example of the effect. After the "magic" has gone away, you get Brand Name Takeover. (The magical new power to copy papers is Xeroxing; years later, the everyday task of copying papers is xeroxing.) This trope probably originates in the fact that up until sometime around the turn of the nineteenth century it was conventional in English to capitalise all nouns, much as it still is in German. Hence capitalising random words makes them feel Old and Important. Compare The Trope without a Title and We Will Use WikiWords in the Future (when two or more simple words are used in this way). Contrast Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp", which is putting fantastical names to common things. A popular alternative is Phantasy Spelling, though such terms are often also capitalized. The most common way to make a name out of it is to spell it with a "the". |
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"Risk": The asteroid orbiting Hyper Base is technically called H937, but everyone on Hyper Base says "it" instead, and eventually the impersonal pronoun achieved the dignity of capitalization. | |
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In A Night in the Lonesome October, the narrator describes the vicar ranting about "Creatures of the Night and Unholy Practices and Living Blasphemies and Things Like That". | |
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents: in one header you find out that Mister Bunnsy finds himself in "the Dark Wood". | |
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Originally, the Zerg and the Protoss, although they were knocked down to lowercase letters later on, because real-life species' common names aren't capitalized. | |
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The Heralds of Valdemar series uses Capitals frequently to distinguish concepts unique to the titular group from more common definitions. Heralds are not merely royal mouthpieces, but do-anything agents of the Crown. Their Companions are not simply friends or compatriots, but equine Bond Creatures and Intellectual Animals, who Choose the Heralds for their abilities and Incorruptible Pure Pureness, and thereafter call them "Chosen." Their Gifts are not presents or mundane talents, but Psychic Powers. The King (or Queen) and Heir of Valdemar are always referred to as such. Indeed, this trope is powerful in Valdemar that the start of the first book sees the heroine traveling on the Road beside the River. | |
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"It's Such a Beautiful Day": A teleportation device known as a "Door" is used to go from place to place. This is lampshaded by the mechanic: | |
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Destiny will never invent a word when it can use an applicable capitalized noun. To give an idea, the player character is a Guardian resurrected by a Ghost by the will of the Traveler, to wield the Light in defense of humanity's Last City against the forces of the Darkness. | |
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Inside Series: Certain key worldbuilding terms like Outside, Inside, and Gateway are capitalized. | |
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The Homeward Bounders has Them, so dreaded that They are not only always given a capital letter, Their pronouns are italicised as well. | |
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From a Naruto fanfic: "Capital letters were very useful when dealing with Gaara. They helped to distinguish between sand, which got in your shorts, and Sand, which could kill you." | |
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The Great Old Ones, the Outer Gods, the Elder Gods and the Elder Things | |
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In the Dragaera novels, the 17 Dragaeran Houses or the members of same are referred to by the capitalized names of their associated heraldic animals - Jhereg, Dragon, Teckla, etc - whereas the animals' names are left uncapitalized. Thus, a Dzur might be commended for hunting down a rogue dzur by an official of House Dzur. | |
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"The Change" in The Last Dove to refer to the ability of all the characters to shapeshift. | |
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"Nightfall (1941)": When Sheerin 501 explains the new scientific law that the astronomers have figured out, he pronounces the capital letters in "Theory of Universal Gravitation". (It took Lagash scientists four hundred years to figure out Isaac Newton's theory.) | |
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In Harry Potter, there's the Trace (a term which, interestingly, only comes up a good deal after the concept has been well established). Places can be made Unplottable, words can be Tabooed, and people Stunned. In most cases, though, novel magical concepts/devices will be capitalized and a made-up word, such as Occlumency (not, say, Clouding). Or a pre-existing word, such as "squib" (a small explosive) or "snitch" (a tattle-tale), will be used in so unrelated a manner that it feels like a made-up word. As is common in other fiction, the capitalization trend doesn't apply when it's something the author didn't invent: wands and dragons versus Time-Turners and Thestrals. Among the everyday (to wizards) terms that are capitalized in Harry Potter: the names of the game Quidditch, all the positions, and all the balls; the names of other games, like Gobstones; the name of every spell and potion; many generic job titles, like "Healer"; subdivisions of people denoting special attributes or abilities, like Parseltongue or Animagus; many plant and animal names; many, many man-made products, like various types of candy (it's usually unclear what's a brand name and what's a generic term — there seem to be a lot of things in the wizarding world that are only made by one company/family/individual, or at least only one in Britain). The school subjects are also always capitalized, but that's a stylistic choice a writer might make even if they were just Chemistry and Creative Writing instead of Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts. | |
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The <<Sword>>, The <<Blood>>, and to <<See>> in Akai Ito and its sort-of sequel Aoi Shiro. The <<Sword>> has a proper name though, it's Ame-no-Murakumo. | |
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"Let's Get Together": The narration points out that characters in this story unconsciously emphasize the "Us" and "Them" terms dividing the two world superpowers, because saying "East", "Reds", "Soviets", or "Russians" would be misleading/wrong, while "We" and "They" remain accurate. | |
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Several of The Binding of Isaac's bosses, including The Haunt, The Hollow, The Husk, The Wretched, The Frail, The Stain, The Forsaken... | |
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The Caster Chronicles: Caster, Mortal, Incubus, Dark, Light, Claimed... | |
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Warcraft: The Forsaken and the Scourge (the antiheroic and villainous undead factions), the Alliance and the Horde (human/elf/dwarf and orc/troll/tauren). Night Elves are the Sentinels, but strangely this one never really caught on. | |
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White Wolf seems to be in love with this trope, and any RPG they publish will have multiple instances of this. Aside from the Exalted examples already listed above, we have the Beast and Vitae from Vampire, the Wyrm, the Weaver, and the Wyld from Werewolf, the Second Breath and the Wyld again from Exalted, Legend, Fate, Knacks, Birthrights, and Scions from Scion, and numerous other examples. Lampshaded in the nWoD Mage: The Awakening rulebook intro: |
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The Wolves in The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, not to be confused with wolves. (How confusing those instructions sound when spoken aloud is immediately lampshaded.) | |
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Likewise, capitalization serves to distinguish sentient hominids of Ringworld, such as Hanging People or Grass Giants, from non-sentient ones such as vampires. Subverted in that, while this convention is used in the (English) text of the last two novels, it's stated in-character that the trade-language of Ringworlders actually uses a prefix to tell them apart. | |
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InCryptid: Several characters mention how the Aeslin mice can somehow verbally capitalize any letter. | |
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And, in possibly the least creative example ever: The Race. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Shardblades, Shardplate, Lashings, Memory. | |
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The Knight and Rogue Series has Gifts, which give people the ability to detect potentially dangerous wild magic, as well as a slew of other randomly assorted unreliable abilities such as knowing if your in danger (which can be anything from being stalked to having your aunt trying to arrange your marriage) or taming animals. | |
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DMFA has Beings, with sapient non-Being creatures being Creatures. | |
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In Cultist Simulator, stuff tied to the resident Eldritch Abominations and mystic principles tends to start with a capital letter - Lantern, Grail, Moth, the Mansus, the Wood, the Watchman. | |
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Halo: The Flood, Forerunners, and Precursors. Also, the Covenant's Grunts, Jackals, Drones, Hunters, Engineers, Brutes, Elites, and Prophets, which all have non-English common names anywaynote Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Yanme'e, Lekgolo (with Hunter-type Lekgolo colonies specifically being "Mgalekgolo"), Huragok, Jiralhanae, Sangheili, and San'Shyuum if you're curious. |
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The Speech, The Powers That Be, The Lone Power | |
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The credits of Twin Peaks capitalize the entirety of the supernatural entities BOB and MIKE to differentiate them from the unrelated humans that have the same names. | |
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Mass Effect: not most species, but the Protheans, the Collectors, and especially the Reapers. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. powerups are always capitalized. It's not a mushroom, but a Super Mushroom; it's not a fire flower, but a Fire Flower; etc. | |
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"The Evitable Conflict": The supercomputers that are consulted before every policy decision are called the Machines. Each major region has a dedicated Master Computer and they coordinate with one another. | |
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The Land of Green Ginger piles on the Significant Capital Letters to the point of excess; it's a children's book and mildly parodies that sort of Heavy-Handed Fairy Tale Significance. | |
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Doesn't enter the above category for being a group instead of a race: Lost has the Others. | |
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The Night Land and Awake in the Night Land capitalizes anything that has to do with the titular Night Land. The adventurers have to get Prepared before going Out, and they must take care to not be Destroyed. | |
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Used constantly in The Paper Magician to refer to the schools of magic, their practitioners, and the use of magical powers. Anyone can fold a sheet of paper, but only a Folder trained in Folding can Fold a sheet of paper. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons has Royalty, the final stage of Enlightenment Superpowers (basically the state of CHIM from the Elder Scrolls), which is always written capitalised to distinguish it from royalty, which is simply the act of being declared a king. While the universe has seen uncountable members of royalty, only about four people have become Royalty. There is also the creator god YISUN, whose name is always written with capital letters only. | |
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Hollow Kingdom (2019): Various noteworthy things are referred to as "The One Who..." by animals. These things can either be specific individuals (The One Who Opens Doors, The One Who Keeps) or an entire group (The One Who Hollows, The One Who Spits). The names of the various natural information networks are always written with a capital letter and in italics (eg. Aura, Echo, Web). |
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Used quite a bit in the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. The Tradition is, like the Force, always capitalized, as are many roles and patterns. | |
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Played with in Men at Arms, with Gaspode the Wonder Dog's boast about how the Dog Guild won't dare to cross him because he has "the Power". While this sounds like it's some great magical secret, it turns out to be the same ability to speak Human that he'd demonstrated since Moving Pictures ... it's just particularly effective when he uses it to order his fellow dogs to "Sit!". | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Anything written from the Old Ehlnofey language uses all capital letters. The Ehlnofey were the Precursor race to both Mer (Elves) and Men, descended from the pre-creation spirits themselves. Perhaps the most famous word is CHIM, the in-universe concept of Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence where one becomes aware of the nature of Anu's Dream, but exists as one with it and maintains a sense of individuality. It is always capitalized as such. Concepts related to the Thu'um, such as "Voice" and "Shout" are capitalized regardless of their placement in a sentence to distinguish them from mundane speech. |
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Magykal words in Septimus Heap are always capitalized. | |
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The Brightest Shadow: Conspicuously not used. Words for magic or other races that are familiar to the protagonists are never capitalized. | |
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The Word, The LORD note In English translations of The Bible, "the LORD" in caps means that the original text in Hebrew has the true name of God (written YHWH but of unclear pronunciation because the Hebrew script is an abjad that doesn’t mark short vowels) that you shouldn't use in vain (or according to the Jews, not at all), to distinguish it from the word "lord" anywhere else. | |
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Lampshaded in The Truth, in which there's a comment in the narration that it's usually a sign of Sanity Slippage when people start thinking in capitals. | |
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Nine Days Down: Tartarus' pronouns are always capitalized, even where other divine beings' are not, to emphasize Its transcendent, unfathomable nature. | |
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Geneforge: the Shapers create and modify living organisms by Shaping. | |
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This is used in Feet of Clay when Dorfl is finally rebaked and given a tongue. There's nothing spectacularly magical about All Those Capital Letters, but much like the one who speaks them, every word has a certain weight. Especially the ones about Serving The Public Interest, and Seriously Prodding Buttock. The impression given is that each of them thuds neatly into place like an exquisitely carved stone block, and one of the precepts of the Disc is that they are, in contrast to the general pervasive magical atmosphere, very, very real. | |
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More 'official' than 'magic', but Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, has a passage in which the main character navigated a small island. It is so small, in fact, that there is only one of most things-hence titles such as 'the Car', 'the Street', and 'the Squeegee'. | |
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In Arthur, King of Time and Space, when Elaine describes the Holy Grail, Morgan asks how she talks so the capital letters on "Holy Grail", "Our Lord" "Last Supper" and so on are audible. Elaine replies "It's a Gift." | |
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Used frequently by Katherine Kurtz in her Deryni works to distinguish magically-enhanced things/processes from analogous ordinary ones (healing vs. Healing, veil vs. Veil). Also used in particular phrases coined to describe magical objects and processes, such as Mind Seeing, Truth Reading, Truth Saying, Transfer Portal. | |
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AURYN in The Neverending Story is always spelled as such. | |
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Chaos. | |
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"Cheese" in Who Moved My Cheese? is written with a capital C when it refers to what the littlepeople want in life. | |
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Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn: The specialness of a "Jump" is indicated by its capitalization. A jump just means to leap in the air, whereas a Jump means the movement into and out of hyperspace. | |
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The Legend of Total Drama Island has a couple of notable cases: Cody gets "The Mother Of All Wedgies" as opposed to just any old wedgie. One of The Storyteller's standard epithets for Justin is, "The Embodiment of Manly Beauty". |
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The Butcher Bird: The proper names of ghouls are always rendered in CAPITAL BOLD. | |
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Gregory Maguire's Wicked makes an important distinction between animals and Animals. Likewise, capitalization serves to distinguish sentient hominids of Ringworld, such as Hanging People or Grass Giants, from non-sentient ones such as vampires. Subverted in that, while this convention is used in the (English) text of the last two novels, it's stated in-character that the trade-language of Ringworlders actually uses a prefix to tell them apart. |
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LIS_DEAD has a fair list of these, from Him to the Agents of the Organization. | |
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Shards, as well as Vessels | |
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In ARMS, the titular allcaps word is used to refer to a mutation that gives people long, stretchy arms, a sport that revolves around boxing with said arms, and the various types of boxing gloves used in the sport, as opposed to regular, non-elastic arms. | |
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The Art | |
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The Dark is Rising: Old Ones. The Light. The Dark. | |
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Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way has this passage in the narration: "If the heretics had a leader, a prophet — no, a Prophet — someone who knew how to adapt this doctrine into a weapon, then they would become something to reckon with." | |
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Ciaphas Cain: When it first appeared, the shadowlight was a C'tan artifact always referred to in italics. In its second appearance, it was capitalized instead. | |
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Storyteller Mark Lewis sometimes remarks that when he first read Winnie the Pooh he noticed that some words were capitalized even though they weren't proper nouns. Much later he asked a British friend why these words were capitalized, and said friend responded "Because they are Important." | |
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Lampshaded in the nWoD Mage: The Awakening rulebook intro: | |
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Keys to the Kingdom again, which has the eponymous Keys, only one of which even resembles a key. The Front Door, Nothing, The House, The Will... he murders it. |
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The Shadows | |
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Oracle of Tao does a combination of science and magic, and pre-existing scientific terms are lowercase while that of Magic are uppercase. A magical portal joining two worlds is a Gate, the world of nonbeing is the Void, and Light and Darkness refer to balance of the two (and since it is Taoism-based, they are normally coupled). Then we have various scientific processes like cloning, which are lowercase for the mundane science, and capitalized for Cloning magic. Likewise, when referring to a light or dark room, these two are lowercase. There seem to some inconsistencies in this though... | |
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Supreme Commander"" has a fictional religion called, "The Way." So does (Gene Roddenberry's) Andromeda'', though it seems like theirs is based on/inspired by Taoism. | |
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In InterWorld, the protagonists can travel through universes. One particular line is "I went for a walk. Then I went for a Walk." | |
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