Fantasy Writing Prompts

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As a toy maker in your village, you've never thought about security. On a lark, you created an toy that says "State your business" when someone walks in. One night robbers come in. When prompted, they kick over the anamatronic.While lying on the floor, it says "Ah, so you have chosen death"

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This is the third time in a row the monster you were wooing has turned into a prince(ss). Good for them and all, but you're starting to feel like you'll never find someone who's your... "type".

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"This child will not die in a bed. Instead their death will be bloody and violently for they shall fall in war." The witch cursed the child and the king, with a tear going down, says "Thank you..."

595 upvotes38 comments

You are a humble farmer when a dragon suddenly appears, he wants you to take his young dragon daughter that is unable to turn fully into a dragon and no longer wants her, before you could respond he fly's away leaving her behind, she then looks at you and ask "Are you my new daddie/mommy?"

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You got trapped inside your favorite video game. This isn’t really a problem, since you’re so familiar with it. It is, however, a problem for your parents, who got trapped with you.

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For reasons unknown, an immortal beast has been dropping off random trinkets at your ancestral home for generations. They're all kept in storage; nobody dares throw them away. Today instead of a trinket, the beast leaves a note with instructions on it.

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You are a lawyer assigned to defend a serial killer, who was arrested because his house was filled with mounted human corpses. He claims he is actually from a lineage of Dragonslayers, and those are the human forms of dragons he'd slain in modern times. You are a dragon in human form.

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You knew from the beginning that opening up and taking care of an orphanage full of Fae children would be exausting, that there would be sacrifices; that you would shed sweat, blood and tears. But seeing the first Fae child be adopted, by a fellow human no less, was all that made it worth it

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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?"

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You just learned that the eldritch monstrosity haunting your dream has in fact "just" mistaken you for its young, and is trying to parent you in its own inscrutable ways.

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After the war, everyone in the world was granted a wish by forces beyond. Some wished for money, some wished for love. Others used their wish to be given the strength of superman or the speed of the flash. I was the only one that wished to have the power to grant other people’s wishes.

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Everyone talks about horrible people being reincarnated into animals, no one talks about amazing animals being reincarnated into people

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Years ago you made a wish with a genie that any living Arthropods would be incapable of being within ten feet of you. You've been loving your bug free life but your starting to notice more any more people refusing to get close to you.

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The Monster Hunter Association specializes in the eradication and containment of monsters. They’ve been doing this for centuries all the way back to King Arthur. You work as the secretary to this fine organization. Oddly enough, you’re also a vampire.

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As the first Mars-born human draws his final breath, the Martian God of Death prepares to argue his case for ownership over his soul.

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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.

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You married a fairy and experienced drastic physical changes. Enduring intense hunger, constant salivation, and even the strange sensation of your body dissolving inside a cocoon. But you hate the color of your wings. You are sorrowful and disappointed, despite your partner consoling you.

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You're supposed to be the god of death, so naturally, it's a bit awkward when the rest of the gods find out you're expecting a child.

579 upvotes41 comments

You’re a shopkeeper who sells liquid dreams. People come to your shop for many reasons; self revelation, escapism, to see a gone loved one or for a precious good night sleep. Your shop is located between dimensions so no visitor can come twice. However, recently you’ve seemed to gain a regular.

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You have been turned into "the snail" and the only way for you to turn back is to touch the immortal

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You have a strange power: When you yell ’Cut!’ from the top if your lungs, everyone presents turns into ’actors’, ’crew’ with ’equipment’ pops into existence and the area you are in turns into a set. Usually you do this when you’re bored but this time you do it to avoid an unwanted marriage.

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Ever since your dog was supposed to pass, you've bartered with Death to trade one year off of your lifespan to give to your dog. Today, you realize you've used them all up.

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Pyromancy is ridiculously dangerous. Most pyromancers die before they turn 20 and 25 is considered ancient by their standards. You have reached 30 and show no signs of slowing down.

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Everyone thought when Gaia made herself known to the world with the intention of suing every corporation which had polluted in the past century that the corporations would easily win. They after all had the best lawyers on Earth. Gaia alternatively had brought her most litigious Fae...

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"Kid, I don't care if your the 'Chosen One' or that you need 'to Level Up', this is a nature reserve. You can't walk in and start killing innocent wildlife. You're being arrested."

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"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.

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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.

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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"

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The fleshlight you bought is, unbeknownst to you, magical. Whenever you use it, the girl next door starts moaning as though she's having sex. Well, she is! With you. Through your magic fleshlight.

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A stranger comes up to you and says “I’ve finally found you!” Apparently, you two are part of a reincarnation cycle that has spanned a millennium in which you two always fell in love. However, this time you aren’t really into them.

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