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* Funny subversion in ''[[Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals]]'' remake. At one point you're sent to find the legendary sword, which the legends claim to have been forged by the gods and able to cut mountains in half. Just one line after that you're informed that all of that is just legend, and the sword itself is probably not even magical, but that you should get it just to boost the morale of the people. It turns our that the myth ''really wasn't'' true... but the sword is still good enough to be useful by the time you get to it.
* In ''Star Wars: [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', you can learn about the creations myths of the Selkath and the Tusken Raiders. It turns out that both are true and are references to the Rakata, the creators of the Star Maps.
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' Adventurer Mode, if someone talks to you about [[Our Dragons Are Different|some dragon who razed his hometown long time ago]] or a forest where [[Our Zombies Are Different|the dead are said to rise and stalk the living]], you can be absolutely sure he's telling the unvarnished truth
** The only exception to this trope are centaurs, chimeras, and griffons, being tagged DOES_NOT_EXIST (they have basic properties necessary for depiction and description, but don't exist in the game world… yet) and FANCIFUL, so that they randomly appear in artwork such as engravings just because they are considered awesome. Though they may still be featured less often than e.g. satyrs, dragons or bronze colossuses, who have all 3 ways of appearing in artwork: being likewise fanciful and possibly "liked for their [quality]", but also capable of participating in events that get depicted.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', the intro cut scene with the story of the hero of legend and the kingdom of Hyrule turns out to be entirely relevant to the storyline, and last part of the game mainly takes place in the now flooded kingdom. Similarly, all those rumours about the 'triumph forks' turn out to be about the Triforce of Courage that Link finds in the endgame.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'' plays with this trope, in that the particulars of a certain historical event relevant to the main plot of the game are [[The Rashomon|recounted differently by different parties]].
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