Fantasy Writing Prompts

When the castle is stormed by enemy troops, the king escapes alone, leaving the princess behind to her fate. Later, as the king is resting at an inn, his royal jester walks in covered in blood and holding the princess in his arms. "Dick move, your majesty," he says. "Dick fucking move."

Due to a wizard's botched summoning attempt, an engineering college student's textbooks wind up transported to a fantasy world, whereupon they're found by a dwarf craftsman who's down on his luck.

Instead of aging continually like humans, elves age in bursts when they make a decision that irrevocably changes the course of their lives, or when a life experience deeply affects them and changes their perception of themselves and the world.

Your sister the goddess of light and her chosen heroes have sealed you the god of darkness away. You relax in your eternal exile, when you are brought back years later by your desperate sister. You know exactly what she wants and why she brought you back.

The men in your family die the moment they turn 18, due to a curse cast on one of your ancestors by a witch. You turned 18 a week ago and are still living, and as a result a descendant of the witch has arrived to figure out why you didn't die.

Your village has exactly 92 people living in it, but only 91 are human. The last one is an elf and - despite being older than the village itself - a child at that. You're her 53rd adoptive parent.

“Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“ “Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure that wasn’t even here!”

A lazy prince is suddenly thrust into power, he constantly tries to push his work on to others or find ways to get out of working but his laziness is continually misconstrued into genius and revolutionary ideas.

You're a Warlock. But instead of drawing power from a higher being, people can choose to donate a portion of their magical power to you. In exchange, they can scry on your adventures and can send telepathic messages to you, as well as make requests. It can get annoying, but you make it work.

You always got strange looks whenever you fed the neighborhood ravens. "I give them food, they give me company," you'd say. One day, a raven excitedly comes up to you and whispers, "A neighbor plots against you, my lord."

Genies don't actually mean to twist people's wishes. They just speak Arabic and have to rely on magical translation to interpret wishes in other languages.

You never really believed your grandmother's stories about the little people who lived in her home. After she passed and left it to you, you said, "Okay, Little People! I'm sorry, but the economy sucks, so I'm going to have start charging rent." In the morning, you find a small pile of gold.

Heaven is separated based on cause of death. All of those who suffered heart attacks are together, all hippopotamus attacks together, drowning, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. An old-looking man looks up at you, and says, "Finally, someone else! It's been ages!"

The summoned hero is effective if not a little... eccentric. He claims that he is a "dark souls player" and keeps saying "why should I wear armor if I don't intend on getting hit". Nevertheless, the great foe is no match for him, and the people love him.

Your fairy godmother is very strange. She dresses in black and red, never takes off her mask, and uses scary magic. However, she genuinely does love you and teaches you what she knows.

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.

One can easily distinguish a true veteran adventurer from the masses, for one doesn’t fear those who show to the start of a dungeon with gleaming weapons and polished armor, but those who show up wearing casual clothing, looking like they just got done shopping in town not 5 minutes earlier.

You're an ancient and powerful dragon, master of the arcane arts. And your hobby is to scry on random humans to watch the unfolding drama of their lives like soap operas. Sometimes you make subtle interventions to nudge your favourite "shows" along in interesting directions.

Due to a clerical error, a fantasy author gets isekai'd into a fantasy world meant for gamer otakus. The author can't spend a minute without criticising the world's "shitty worldbuilding," which is making everyone around him confused and driving the gods insane.

"To cure his phobia of fire, I had him study fire magic. Unfortunately he's still deathly afraid, but at least his magic has... interesting properties."

A dragon misinterprets a "party" of adventurers who set out to challenge it as a celebration and as such, went all out with the festivities for their arrival.

You are Death, the ancient entity that claims souls and preserves them. Your counterpart, Life, is eccentric and bubbly as she creates souls and grants life. Occasionally she asks you to spare certain beings or delay their deaths, but today she asks you something different; To end a life early.

In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION.

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.

Unbeknown to most, the Norse gods are still among us. Thor is a grumpy personal trainer, Freya is a successful influencer. Quite a few of the dwarves are top level sysadmins. But what about Loki?

You've noticed that unlike the rest of your companions, the elves you're travelling with have never excused themselves to answer nature's call, even though they eat and drink just as often as you do. When you work up the courage to ask the elves about this, their explanation astounds you.

The villain just shot you with his Superpower Suppressor! He crows with laughter as he declares his victory over you to the city, but you get right back up and take him down mid-gloat. You never had any superpowers, you're a perfectly average demon that's just playing superhero.

"How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal but that can't be all" "Well you'd be surprised how many artifacts will grant you ultimate power in exchange for your life."

You are not the child of a powerful ruler, neither do you behave in such a way as to command power. You have never been violent, nor even aggressive. Yet, wherever you go, people fear you and treat you like a monarch or an emperor. You never understood why, until today...

The spell of the fae forced you to tell them your name. The fae looks at you with pure horror, while you look at them confused, because that was definitely not your name.