Magical Creatures Writing Prompts

A child has brought home a "puppy" and is insisting on keeping it. The "puppy" is most certainly NOT a puppy, but seems pretty content with the situation anyway.

The fey sneered and laughed, "You declare threshold? What are you on about?" The grimy woman in tattered clothes stood defiantly, "I am not homeless, the street is my home, it is *our* home, and you have crossed the threshold. This domain belongs to us."

You’re a party who has just found an ocean of gold coins but from it comes a massive colossal elder dragon. Your party readies for a fight but the dragon coos out “Archi…did you…decide…to..visit..your…grandmother?”

“I thought the goddess of love would look…different.” The wrinkled old woman waved a dismissive hand, leaned closer, and smiled. “You are thinking of my daughter, the goddess of passion and romance. Dearie, I am the goddess of LOVE.”

You would think that the God of Death has no respect for life. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, out of all the gods, it is the God of Death who has the most respect for life, for all too often have they been forced to watch mortals throw their lives away.

Whenever you visit the dragon's lair, you give some treasure instead of taking some. People think you are crazy for doing this.

You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you.

Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up.

You are a litch who, in an attempt to escape the hero, managed to telekinetically throw yourself into space and landed on the moon. After countless years, you've managed to create a comfortable life for yourself, only for a space shuttle and some astronauts to land nearby and plant a flag.

Congratulations! You’re getting reborn. On the plus side, you’ll be a god/goddess. Downside, you’ll be a Greek god/goddess and Zeus is mad at you. Good luck.

"Wait," The dragon said, "Raise your hand if you're an adult." The party of knights before it stayed still. The dragon sighed. "Turn around and go back home. Tell your king not to pull this crap again."

An immortal person decides to start streaming themselves playing Geoguesser, and over time become extremely popular as they tell the history of the places that they guess.

Your parents listed Hades as your godfather as a joke, That would not be an issue if it were not for the 3-headed puppy delivered to your doorstep by Persephone and Hades themselves, planning to protect you from the Olympian's shenanigans due to Zeus' bulldickery

While touring the Greek Islands on a sailboat with your friends, you pull into a grotto. As you leave, a beautiful siren appears, and seductively asks to come aboard you boat. You kindly refuse. In a fury, she demands to know why.

You're an immortal who got tired of living and decided to take a nice thousand-year nap in a coffin 6ft underground. 500 years later, your sleep is interrupted by some inexperienced grave robbers.

You are an old dragon slayer who, in their old age, retired to an isolated farm. Recently a dragon has moved into a nearby cave and has been demanding tribute from you. Time to see whether you still got it.

"Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created.

You go to hell, but Satan tells you he’ll send you to heaven if you can beat him in one game of your choice

The nearest kingdom gave you the title of dragon slayer but in reality the dragon you "slayed" was your girlfriend throwing a fit and you just calmed them down enough to go back to their human form.

His daughter was stolen by the Fae. Two decades of fruitless searching later, his time for vengeance has come. He kicks in the door to the Queen’s throne room as she flies to her feet, grabbing the hilt of her sword before recognition flashes across her face. “Dad… what are you doing here?”

You’re a mimic. You were disguised as a clock when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You’ve actually managed to enjoy your live ever since as furniture in a small, local tavern. When some ruffians decide to rob the now elderly adventurer however, you finally reveal yourself.

A dragon has been demanding tribute of gold from a small village for years. And when they dinally hire a slayer to deal with it, the slayer finds a dragon thats barely a hatchling

You’re a park ranger of a very dense forest and you take care of everything, including the supernatural cryptids. One day, a murder happens in your forest and the culprit evades the authorities. You then politely ask the cryptids for their aid in the culprit’s capture. They agree.

"I'm two halves dragon." "But that's just...a dragon." "YOU'D THINK SO, WOULDN'T YOU?"

You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat.

They say you should never give the fae your real name. You were introduced to a large group of creatures from the fae realm, and immediately told them all your real name. You couldn't be happier with your decision.

"So, there's living, dead, and undead. Doesn't that imply that there are 'unliving' things as well?" Your master looks at you, with horror in their eyes.

As a child, people believed your ability to talk to animals would make you a fine veterinarian. Funny how you got into the extermination business instead.

You accidentally listed yourself as an "Infernal Medicine Doctor" instead of an "Internal Medicine Doctor" on your resume, now you keep getting request from the underworld to go help cure demons with ailments of all kinds, let's see how far this new life takes you.

The new employee is clearly a mimic attempting to fit in. Everyone is aware of this, but the mimic is just so innocent and precious that they just accept them.