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We once kidnapped a bad guy cus we needed him for plot reasons, but his boss captured my character and interrogated me in a zone of truth asking "where will we find "the guy" ", to which I (player) smiled and answered you'll find him in "name of casino I can't remember the name of rn". To which I explained to the DM that while we hadn't decided on what to do with him once we were done, I just there and then decided that once we were done we'd dump him there, meaning that they would eventually find him there. Was it what they wanted to know? Not really, would they eventually find him there? Yup.

I know I'm late to this comment section, but just wanted to add how rather than avoiding words/names with obvious real world connections, you can also have fun with it. It certainly work better in less serious settings, but as an example. During a D&D session I accidentally had an NPC use "Jesus!" as an expletive. And rather than going "nvm, retcon, he actually said "by the gods" or something" I decided that in my setting there was once an old king named Jesus, and as he had a habit of making small laws that had small but annoying effects it became a common expletive to say "thanks Jesus", whenever anything inconvenient happened, which in time morphed into a more general expletive now used on rare occasion both for good and bad by people who for the most part have long since forgotten about why they say it.

Now this example may well be too extreme for many settings, and one should always be a bit careful not to be too mocking as people might get insulted. But on a smaller scale, known terms or names can be a fun opportunity for world building. The word "demon" can come from a twisting of the name Deiamon, the first demon. Heaven can be an old Elven word for the sky that was used by ancient humans to sound fancy. Mary might be spelled Ma'Ry and might be an outer god who birthed the current head god, who because of mythical shenanigans was also created by that same god she birthed. And Lazarus could be the name of a lich.

Point being, if you're writing a fantasy story then the words used can have new meaning while retaining the known connotations. I wouldn't worry about explaining every word because that's how you end up going insane, but if you make up some reasons here and there and sprinkle them inn, the readers may have an easier time when another words comes up without an explanation. Case and point, after turning Jesus into a silly king, none of my players questioned me when I later, in a much more serious section of our campaign, called a magical artifact "The Ark". They understood that this thing was something they had to respect, and that it was probably a bad thing for the bad guy to have. I didn't have to explain to them that it was a vessel containing an aspect of a god for them to take it seriously. They already did, all though the use of a familiar name.

Exactly! Like, I get the intented effect, but the actual effect is just making the site annoying to use