Fantasy Races Writing Prompts

As part of a newly established student exchange program between the realms, a dwarf student arrives at a human STEM college. He's about to attend his first computer science class. "This should be easy," he thinks, "how complicated can human technology possibly be?"

You are a werewolf and you are an expert at living among humans undetected. You are so good, that a vampire thought you were an ordinary human and bit you.

"This is insane, I'm not paying this. And what is your name!?", the Faye screams at you, tearing up the forms. You pull out a second copy and hand them over. "No one escapes the IRS, not even residents of the Fayewild. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way.", you say to them.

You are transported into another world where dragons rule with magic. Humans are treated in low regard as they don't have anything special in them. Everybody speaks in a language you don't understand. To your surprise, Dragons speak English to use their magic spells.

After a series of misunderstandings, a dragonborn paladin of noble birth is sent on a quest to save the lost princess (herself) from a vicious dragon (also herself).

When someone dies, the afterlife they go to is determined by WHERE they died. Dying in Scandinavia sends the soul to Valhalla or Hel, but dying in Greece lands them in Hades, and so on. You have just died in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Elven people have finally reached the stars and have arrived at the galactic community. Upon arriving, they attempt to assert themselves as the dominant party to the galactic alliance sighting their longevity and wisdom. Only for the Elder Race known as "Humanity" to put them in there place

Tired of love stricken mortals making up a sizable chunk of the underworld’s traffic, Hades decides to help mortals with their love problems before Aphrodite can answer them. It turns out that mortals are a lot more satisfied with Hades’ help than with Aphrodite’s.

A pet groomer lands in a fantasy world. Rather than try to be a hero or an adventurer, they open a health spa & salon for beastfolk races.

An Elf wakes up one day to suddenly realize that their human spouse hasn't aged a single day since they met 50 years ago.

Not all Dragons hoard gold. Some run the greatest libraries and repositories of knowledge in the world, others search for the greatest experiences and sights the worlds can offer. One dragon has a rather unusual fascination.

Humans have a reputation amongst the other sapient races. Not just for being ambitious and adaptable, but also for being monstrously disgusting. Most view them as lumbering hives of parasites, diseases, dead skin cells and bacteria. They are biological weapons; children of pestilence.

You have been chosen among others to become the gods of a more modern pantheon. After having been unknowingly teleported to some ethereal place, you see everyone else. Each person seems to represent the engraving in front of them perfectly; Gaming, Fast Food, Automobiles… yours reads Internet

You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.

“Uh, I’m a vampire. I bit you, and drank some of your blood, which means you should be under my control.” “Hahaha, you fool. I am Fae, which means that, technically, you ate some Fae food, and therefore should be under MY control.” “Alright, fine, how do you want to settle this?”

You kidnapped a princess, because your dragon daughter wanted a princess. You are not sure why exactly she wanted one but you got her one.

"You see, hero from another world, our land is governed by a form of arachno-communism" "You mean anarcho-communism" "No"

You are a fay, but were raised human and have no idea of your true nature. You simply believed people were naturally honest about their deals with you - until a ridiculous 'joke' deal opens your eyes to the fact something's wrong.

List of things to do, "Ring check, dinner with my parents and hers check. Plan to tell her I'm secretly a 150 year elf check. Plan to tell her she needs to defeat my eldest sister in open combat to prove her worth. Work in progress. She's from Texas I'm sure she'll be fine."

"Hello. I'm here to kill your leader in single combat to claim chiefdom over your people." "Whoa! Do you really think we are that primitive and salvage!?" "Yes. Isn't this how it works?" "Well... Yes... But you are being very rude about it!"

Elves have never been affected by narcotics, making elves incredibly judgmental of human drug use. However, one special human drug is the exception, affecting elves far more than any other creature: caffeine.

Thousands of years ago, the conjoined efforts of all races managed to strike down and imprison you. Once you returned, you find them all scattered, divided and squabbling with themselves. This won't do, so you set out to put order in the house for the sake of a good and proper war.

Your father was a dragon and your mother was a princess that didn’t particularly want to be rescued. As a dragonborn princess, you’ve inherited some bad habits, like sleeping on a pile of gold in the treasury and ‘capturing’ the castle maids.

“So, wait, you’re an angel? A real, honest-to-God angel?” “Well, technically, I’m only half-angel, and even then, my dad Fell a long time ago.” “Why did he Fall, if you don’t mind me asking?” “Long story short, he met and fell in love with a mortal woman.” “You mean?” “My mom, yes.”

After seeing the movies, you started "breaking" fourth wall, Deadpool style, usually only when you were alone and private... And now you stand before the gods, "developers" as they call themselves, and you have to explain how random NPC character got sentient.

“So, I noticed on your paperwork that you put ‘mixed lineage’. Would you care to elaborate?” “Oh, well my dad’s a minotaur, and my mom’s a mermaid. I just inherited the human side of both.”

The time has come for you to introduce your partner to your parents, except your partner is a vampire and your parents are ancient pureblood dragons who are not too happy with your choice.

When you attacked the Demon Queen's castle you tought you were prepared for everything. The maid costume took you by surprise anyways.

Everyone in the guild had to take the alignment test. Despite everyone's expectations that you'd be "cold hearted" you actually scored "upstanding and compassionate"

It's a strange trait of the Elven race, whenever a male is born it is as an only child but females are always born in triplets. Another strange trait is, when you marry an elf woman you automatically marry her sisters as well. Why? Because Elven triplets share their sense of touch.