Medieval Times Writing Prompts

Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something.

As a noble your clothing was ruined by an orphan worker. As punishment you gave her the worst fate imaginable: chores around your mansion, plainest clothing, 3 meals a day, and schooling, which you abhorred.

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 were born in the Medieval Age, but at 15, a time anomaly brought you to the modern era, where a scientist adopted you. Now, 11 years later, they’ve found a way to send you back and asked for your opinion, but your answer is clear: "Hell no."

You are the king's court jester and you enjoy your job very much, but what not many people now is that you used to be a royal knight. One day a noble, offended by a joke you made, challenges you to a duel.

"You claim to be an honest merchant who used to sell tomatoes and other goods... But tomatoes will not be known here until a few centuries from now." Whispered the Knight to the speechless stranger. "I never let one of us escape me, fellow time-traveller... Guards! Arrest this sorcerer!"

Your daughter has always been weird, but lately it's gotten worse. She keeps going on about not having a smartphone or bored because there's no internet. It's 1685 AD.

“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!”

A noble frustrated with the current system, but too weak to revolt, has staked it all on starting a new trend: showing off how wealthy, well-fed and happy their local peasants are.

"Who you think is the leader of this revolution?" Said the prince after his father suggested they both flee the castle as the revolutionaries invaded

Your local renaissance fair also has a period-appropriate brothel.

You reminiscence about your childhood when you and your brother were competing on who would become a knight first. The sound of the horn brings you back to reality as you face your brother on the enemy side of the battlefield and you think yourself, "how did it get to this point".

You live in the 1600s when witches were being burned at the stake. But, unlike the women that were burned, you have magical powers and are a witch. You try to avoid detection, while trying to save the women, all the while feeling guilty that the actual witch gets to live while innocents die

You have spent weeks embedding yourself in a secret society in the capital city on suspicion of movement against the king. You’ve finally gained access to their secret base of operations and…what on earth is a “speakeasy”?

The king ordered each house of the nobility to send their eldest child to war to help defend the kingdom. When the heir of a noble house is about to be drafted their maid raises her voice: "Let them go! As firstborn of this family the duty to go to arms is mine."

He told himself that this was the year. He was going to woo the bar maiden at the Renaissance Fair. Hell, he was dressed as a nobleman, he might as well at like one!