Wizards and Witches Writing Prompts

The witch grows angry as she stares at the baby in your wife's hands that she had birthed only hours prior. "I wanted *your* firstborn! This is a trick!" She shouts at you. You look at the witch in confusion. Your wife panics. This was quite an exceptional way to learn about the affair.

You are reborn as a mute skeleton, one of many magically animated to serve a small petite witch with delusions of grandeur who does not realize that you are more than a magical puppet. You decide to secretely help her with her schemes antics because you find it hilarious.

"how can you have HIM as an apprentice! He is too soft!" "Exactly! He's the only one I trained that isn't a power hungry psychopath."

You are an instructor at a magical academy, but you are no wizard, warlock, sorcerer, or witch. No, you aren't magical at all, but that doesn't mean your classes are easy.

The witch begs your forgiveness for cursing you as a baby; she was young and hot-headed, and would you like her to undo the curse? You aren't sure what to say as this is the first you've heard about any of this.

After attempting to burn a witch who just flew off cackling, a town has to come to terms with the fact that it has clearly been accusing and burning innocent people up till now.

"You shall fall dead the day your first child is born!" the young, inexperienced witch had cried casting her curse. Little did she know, to an asexual like yourself, she'd practically granted immortality. Now, every year, on the anniversary of the curse, she tries her best to "fix" things.

You only know 1 spell, but that spell made you known as the most powerful mage in the world.

Contrary to popular belief witch and wizard aren't actually gendered terms. Witchcraft and wizardry are distinct schools of magic that can be learned by anyone. You are a male witch/female wizard and are sick of explaining this.

Joshua accidentally angered the witch, and she cursed him so he may never find a wife. 20 years later, Joshua invites her to his and Paul's wedding, just to see her reaction.

“And what do you do with the children? Enslave them? Eat them?” “What? No!” The witch shouted, aghast. “I raise them, of course. If parents are willing to give up their children for greed, then imagine what they’d do to the child, given the chance to raise it?”

"You should be aware that casting this spell will legally require me to take your firstborn child" said the Witch, "but the meaning of 'take' was never defined, so I imagine we can figure out a loophole or two that'd work for you."

At the age of 16 all witches are assigned a familiar. You are excited for yours as you see your friends turn 16 and get theirs. Cats, Crows, spiders. You are devastated to find out that out your 16th birthday, your familiar is a 27 year old hipster named Frank.

As a last resort, the wizard summoned heroes from another world. The first happily embarked on their "RPG adventure". The next said something about "darkness" or "souls", then rolled away alone. The third mumbled "factorio" and constructed supply lines. Every new hero is weirder than the last.

You are a 'Life force' magic practitioner. You gain magical power by magically pulling the LF from other living things. Usually your kind is feared, but you are well liked. You take the the LF from invasive plants and insects. No one realises how powerful you are until another LFMP arrives.

"They only ever use a single spell in combat" "Yea but theyre REALLY good at that one spell"

You are a poor child going to a popular magic school at your mentors insistence, telling you to "broaden your horizon." But when you get there you realise everyone is doing magic differently to what your mentor taught. They use silly chants and carry big ugly books around.

The witch cursed the princess so that no man would love her. Unbeknownst to the witch, the princess is lesbian and is glad to finally be rid of her annoying suitors.

The title of Archmage can only be held by the pinnacle of each magical field, who have spent decades perfecting their magic. As a young genius who invented a new field of magic, you have significantly lowered the average age of archmages.

You angered a witch, and in retaliation, she transformed you into an unmovable tree in a public park. Months later, she returns with the sinister hope of reveling in your suffering, only to find that you are not only surviving but thriving and happier than ever before.

It's not uncommon for wizards to give their children unnecessarily complicated and strange names. Why? The more ridiculous the baby's name, the more magically gifted it will be.

All of your siblings, papart from you, have attended a prestigious wizarding school. Now, after all these years, they're back in your "regular" world... and don't even know how an oven works.

Prisons designed to hold magic users force inmates to wear muzzles so that they cannot cast spells, mealtimes being heavily monitored. You've just been arrested and are sentenced to one such prison.

"Father, if Necromancers are evil and all get hunted down, why is the court wizard allowed to be one?"

An orphan is adopted by the local Witch that raises them lovingly all to feast on them once they've grown. The Witch and her fellow supernaturals are starting to have second thoughts.

You are attending a school for wizards, where they learn to do magic. You are terrible at doing the steps to cast spells, but to everyone's anger it keeps working and you can spell cast no problem. Unknown to you, and everyone else, this is because you are actually a sorcerer

“No,” the beautiful goth woman said, “I am not the witch. You want the brightly-dressed himbo next door; he’s the actual witch you’re looking for. He’ll take care of all your witchy needs.”

You're an oath-keeper, your god will whisper you the names of those paladins who have broken their oaths, and you slay them. But you awoke at night to an incomprehensibly long list of names, after an hour it said " fuck it, all the paladins have broken their oath, slay them all"

You are a Necromancer so powerful that even the gods tried and failed to kill you. As a desperate measure they banished you to another realm. Annoyingly it worked, and now your listing to some guy ranting about his life before the... Zombie Apocalypse?

The power of a spell is inversely proportional to the amount of words in its name. You, hated and exiled, invented the first single word spell: