Fantasy Writing Prompts

There is a 50/50 chance that leaving the Arch Mage and Head Scientist alone in a room together will result in either a marriage proposal or a doomsday device. More likely both.

Your job is to guard a button that no one may push. Things get complex when both legendary heroes and villains arrive to attempt to push the mysterious button. Everyone seems to have a different idea about what the button does, but they all want to push it.

As the newly summoned entity turned towards you it grinned malevolently and reminded you that you should never summon anything you can’t put down yourself. You demonstrate that you can, in fact, put the entity down yourself.

You are a divorce lawyer, the best in your field. You have just received word that you will representing the Greek goddess Hera in her divorce from Zeus.

Several years ago, you thought your girlfriend was joking when she told you she was actually an Elder Goddess, the Mother of Abominations. Now you are a proud stepparent to her vast brood of unspeakable offspring.

A prophecy comes out that your child will become the Hero to defeat the great evil when they come of age. You decide that’s too much for a kid and intend to ensure the great evil isn’t going to live that long.

You unknowingly acquired an ancient artifact that carries a most horrible curse. Well, "most horrible" by ancient standards. By today's standards it is a mild inconvenience at worst.

“The anti-technology spell stops technology from working. What’s so confusing about this?”

“Burn the witch! Burn the witch!” shouted the crowd, drowning out the distressed warnings of one person. “No, you fools! She can control the flames!”

Magical incantations are actually insults in the arcane language; sicker burns mean stronger effects. You are about to be first person in history to cast a "yo momma" spell.

I dropped a coin into a wishing well and asked for everyone's wishes to come true. I didn't realize the well was 1000 years old.

To get the eternal glory of a warriors death, you have to die fighting. You remembered this as the third village in a row surrendered before you could even draw your sword. You are a legendary old viking, and you're getting worried.

A deity has had enough and is ready to die, however one tiny human still calls their name in prayer, forcing this deity to exist. The deity now attempts to help the tiny human in order to finally fade away.

Man-eating sirens have plagued these waters for as long anyone can remember. Now, as you sail across the ocean with your crew, siren songs begin to entrance everyone on board. In a desperate move to save the others, you try something no one else has tried before; you sing along with them.

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.

You've just flubbed a summon spell however, you still got *something*. But would someone please explain what an "Nanite Enhanced Semi-Biological Forge-Integrated Combat Android" is....

The king is hailed as a hero by the poor people of the kingdom for his reforms that improve their lives. What they don't know is that the king hates poor people above all else; how they look, how they smell, everything. To him, the reforms are simply a way to have fewer poor people.

One would think a healer would the the weakest of the party, but when a powerful healer is alone, all their magic is focused on themself, and boy you better hope you can hurt them faster than they can regenerate the damage.

A knight is returning to the kingdom with the kidnapped princess where he will be rewarded for his success. The princess is attempting to seduce the knight but is declined each time though not out of chivalry. Instead, it is because he is already married and is devoted to his wife.

You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don't die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind....until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes.

"That power corrupts people," they cried, "you'll become a monster!" That was a hundred years ago, and you're beginning to wonder when the 'evil' is going to kick in

Many genies pride themselves on using loopholes and technicalities to twist wishes. But you're using them to untwist this moron's stupid wishes so they don't die.

You are a sailor, however a Siren in training is trying to get you as you watch her sisters encouraging her from afar.

Immortals get only one billion words to speak, after which they immediately die. You've gone centuries in silence, as you have only twelve words remaining.

You’ve stumbled upon a genie, and he grants you three wishes. As with most genies, he’s the type to grant wishes with a malicious twist. Unfortunately for the genie, all the wishes you have in mind are malicious to everyone, including the genie.

"A game for your life," the skeletal figure said. "You choose," I replied. "I've never been much for games, or for life." For the first time in as long as they could remember, Death smiled.

Whenever someone is buried in your town, plants grow and surround the grave, representing what sort of life they lived. When a pillar of the community dies, their grave is covered in thick, gnarled brambles.

In the medieval era, women began to wield magic and were called witches.A war was declared against them. However, the witches won and since then, the world has been ruled by them. You, a 16-year-old boy, discover that you can also wield magic. But your witch mother turns pale hearing this.

You are a great warrior that heroically fell in defence of your city. As a reward the gods resurrected you to be the its eternal defender. Now, centuries later, your city has been abandoned and is nothing more than rubble, but your mission remains. You will defend these ruins with your life.

The heroes just discovered that the reason the "wicked, omnicidal sorcerer" is so hellbent on destroying "the forces of good" is that "the forces of good" captured and tortured them for fifty years