The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically: * As a way of distinguishing the "real" concept from the fake version, such as "Magick" versus stage magic. * As a way of implying ancientness. This is somewhat Truth in Television, because before spelling was codified words could be spelled in a number of different ways, though in modern fantasy it is often gratuitous and may not even reflect the way a word was really spelled in any ancient languages. * As a way of being pretentious. * It looks Kool A Super-Trope to Magick.