Other Creatures Writing Prompts

On ancient maps, your village is in the jurisdiction of the undead. When the village is forcibly annexed, your write to the King of the Dead for help. A few days later, the occupiers are starting to panic. A skeleton army can be seen in the distance marching towards the village.

You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat.

They say you should never give the fae your real name. You were introduced to a large group of creatures from the fae realm, and immediately told them all your real name. You couldn't be happier with your decision.

A Necromancer resurrects you (a Skeleton) but dies before giving you a command. Unbound by their control, you decide to leave their lair.

As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed.

Long ago, a young elf met a young human in the forest of Eternia and they became best friends. Now, a millennium later, that same elf faces his old friend, the now terrible lich lord, in the same forest.

You know your dog is anything but a dog, but you don’t mind since you both agree that it’s better than whatever’s in the basement.

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're a boy who has watched as, once a year, your father and all the men in the world disappear for a day. Your mother always assures you that everyone is alright, but you're terrified because, this year, you legally become an adult.

"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..."

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.

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.

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

When you were 10, you created a secret phrase with God so you would know how to identify someone as your solemate. Your partner of two years has never said it, but as you finish shopping and start loading your items onto the conveyor belt, a random cashier utters the words to you.

“You know what, no. Fuck you.” You tell your murderer as they stab you through the chest. “I refuse to die.”

In a terrible accident, you kill someone in public. You frantically ask those around you for help but no one seems to even notice the body. You only then realize you have a horrible power. The people you kill are forgotten.

You don't know what was more frightening, the Humanoid THING with too many teeth and eyes like shadows, or your dad looking up calmly at it and saying "Oh, yeah. I've seen one of these before" in a bored tone.

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.

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.

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.

Your girlfriend has always wanted to be a witch and when she went to the local witch to be her apprentice you accompanied her as moral support. To the surprise of both of you, the witch rejected your girlfriend and instead asked you to be her apprentice.

You're about to go to bed, when you find a woman getting food out of your refrigerator. It turns out, that "cat" you picked up outside the grocery store, wasn't a cat at all.

After a devastating car crash you look over at your spouse in the passenger seat and they have a parking sign impaling their chest. They yank it free and look you in the eye, saying "Ok I haven't been completely honest with you"

You started a cult to scam people out of money. However, more and more of your “prophecies” begin coming true and the “miracles” can claim begin to actually happen.

Being immortal, I started realizing that my spouse was the same person being reincarnated over and over again.

You thought feeding that Skinwalker some barbecue was fine maybe she would stop eating human flesh. but it seems she had spread the word and now all different types of monsters are at your door hungry.

For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.

Suddenly politicians start dying for an unknown reason, seemingly at random. The reason is discovered - something or someone has cursed them to die if they tell a lie

You were once the Lord Lich, but after finding love you faked your death to settle down as a farmer. With your minions you can plow and sow many fields, after many years and burying your lover you’ve come to peace with the world and just in time for the heroes have finally found you.

You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.