Writing Prompts

Search: Cave

 * You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form.


 * You are a renowned hero who's tales of heroic deeds and selflessness knows no bounds. However, as time goes on people start to rely on you more and more for every minor inconvenience and after a while that heroic nature starts to dwindle as a more sinister nature makes itself known.


 * You are a great sorceress. People come from far and wide for help. You have but one payment: kindness. By posing as your assistant, you learn the true nature of those that seek you.


 * You make a deal with a witch, but instead of them demanding your firstborn, they hand you theirs.


 * You are Death, but in a post-apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life.


 * All dragons are extreme introverts, preferring burning down an entire village than interacting with a single person. You are/just met the first extroverted dragon and discover there is no middle ground between introverted and extroverted dragons.


 * You're a powerful dragon that live next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignore humanity and live alone in a cave, and the humans also avoid you. As the kingdom fall to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her.


 * After your party ditches you, you the paragon, are shocked when you realize that the stereotype bad guys (orcs, goblins, crab people, vampires) are actually better people than your original party, this is the beginning of your new adventure


 * We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything.


 * In defiance of stereotypes, a group of Dwarves open a nice cafe that serves pastries and coffee; a group of Elves opens the most thuggish bar possible opposite the Dwarves' cafe.


 * You are the first man on Mars to explore a previously unknown cave. The camera feed is able to still reach earth, but with a 20 minute delay. Your crew back on Earth start frantically shouting to go back.


 * "Atlanteans" are really a society of vampires who have adapted to living below the surface and feast upon the blood of sea creatures.


 * First the internet went out. Then the Power soon your tiny town was cut off from the rest of the world. Then the rain came and it hasnt stopped. Its been 50 days since the rain came and you are held up at the school fending off hoards of water creatures.One of which has recently learned to speak


 * You are a reformed supervillain that has left their villainous life behind and now has a simple 9 to 5 office job. One day, a member of the next generation of supervillains attacks your workplace, much to your dismay.


 * Instead of basing their powers from their color or natural elements, Dragons are based on elements from the periodic table. In the first time in history, you face a Uranium Dragon

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 * A supposed dragon has given your lord the perfect excuse to take more men for his army and more food to feed them. You, a simple farmer, are surprised to find the dragon injured and hiding out in your barn.
 * Spelunking a cave, you discover a hidden obelisk. Carved into it are pictures of a civilization that hid itself from what appears to be invaders from the sky. As you touch it, you feel a tingle in your skin, and realize that you're not in the cave anymore; and maybe not Earth.'''


 * To be immortal, you must be the last living member of the race you belong to


 * Necromancy. Few now remember that this NOBLE magic was once used to protect and guide the dead on their journey to the afterlife. But you remember; you still practice the old ways.

Search: Folklore

 * In this universe, all folkloric myths are true. In Japan there are yokai, in Ireland there are fae. You live in rural America, and one day you run into Paul Bunyan.


 * There is only one moon, but centuries ago there were three. Write a mythological/folkloric tale describing why.


 * I always wondered what the monsters of the past, like vampires, zombies, ETC and folklore creatures would react to the lovecraftian, distorted and disturbed monsters we now dream up.


 * Most aliens civilizations, like human civilizations, have folklore, horror stories, and tall tales that they tell their children so they behave. All of their creatures of myth are completely fictional. This is not true for humans, especially when considering the hostile creatures of legend.


 * Eternal eclipses. Fragile structures. Primordial time and passing eras. Stories and tales, folklore and myth, legends of the past and the present. That is all that remains those of times to come, to unearth. Oh Bard and Prophet, tell us of tales whispered to you of times gone by ...


 * All of the tales of folklore that speak of a great hero to return are true. Now that the world is ending, all of them come back to aid their nation and lead them through the chaos.


 * With the Easter Bunny laid up this year with a mild case of myxomatosis, he has asked one of the other folkloric animals to cover him. As the substitute reports in, things are going .... questionably.


 * Since Antiquity the world of Myth, Legend and Folklore have gone into hiding. A photographer, who has seen glimpses of this world,since his childhood, wants to photograph its magicalness amd ethereal beauty. But this other world doesn't want to be known, it wants to remain hidden.


 * A classic folklore trickster explores the internet (Coyote, Anansi, Loki, etc...)


 * You are a janitor for a museum that houses supposed proof of mythical creatures, including the skeletal remains of an ancient dragon. You obviously don't believe in such folklore, and just assume that the "dragon" is just fake bones made of plastic. That is until it starts talking to you.


 * earth has fallen & her people have been subjugated by the alien invaders. however, the aliens have begun to experience problems, such as patrols dissapering. as it would turn out, the monsters of folklore don't discriminate between human & Xeno.


 * You're a fairy child in a fairy home, and your grandfather is coming over to visit. He always tells the best stories, and tonignt, as he sits down in his armchair and the children gather all around, they're all begging him for a story about the folkloric "humans" you've been learning about


 * A narrator tells the tale of the Chernobyl disaster as if it were medieval folklore passed on for generations.


 * There is an old folklore about a man in a forest. If you meet him, and speak with him, he will grant you your greatest wish. In return, he will also take away your most cherished possession. You, someone with nothing left to lose, go to meet him.


 * You, a legendary folklore hero,wake from being frozen in ice for decades,and you,in your mid 40s decide to spend the rest of your life as an adventurer, only for you to encounter your yet unknowing grandson’s child who’s in his early 20s in a party of adventurers you recently joined.


 * Folklore has become reality. Phoenix, wyverns, and dragons rule the sky. Kitsune, sirens, and demigods have begun to become the majority. You are a human with the ability to attract creatures of folklore. Will you use this ability for good or bad?


 * Alien invasions of Earth fail because human myths and folklore have prepared us and we know how to deal with every one of them.


 * 39 years old, born blind. Growing up your grandfather told you about the ‘light-giving’, a rare person who can touch the blind and give them sight. You figured it was folklore to make you feel better, until one day you go out to get coffee and meet eyes for the first time with another person.


 * Humanity is beaten. The old gods never showed, the superheroes never emerged, the miracle tech never came. Instead, when all seems lost, the heroes of folklore and legend appear to fight back the alien threat.


 * You are an Uber driver. For the fictional, the folklore, the fairy tales, and the likes. You just ended your first shift.


 * In a world where our society has long since ended and a pre-industrial civilization has arisen with folklore and mythology based on corruptions of our pop culture, an explorer finds a solar-powered charger and a computer with a superhero movie downloaded on it.


 * You wake up to find yourself inside an arena along with a few others, all from different cultures and time periods. You each must kill a monster from one other person's folklore.


 * Celtic folklore tells that the Ankou, watcher of graveyards and collector of souls, is the last person of a parish to die in the year. So for the next 365 days they must call to dead as henchmen of death. You just died on December 31st. A weary looking man tells you "Good luck." and vanishes.


 * "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" in Japanese folklore actually were tourist from the future travelled back in time.


 * A tribal storyteller retells the events of a popular movie, passed down through oral tradition for the last thousand years as legend and folklore.


 * Dragons are real. They are space dwelling creatures that spend 30 years on Earth every 10,000 years. They exhale fire due to the Earth's atmospheric content. Modern society meets folklore thought to be myth.


 * Describe the coming of age hunt in a tribal culture, the beast being of mythical folklore to modern people.


 * "The King in the Mountain is a prominent motif in folklore and mythology concerning a great monarch who will emerge from hiding to defend the nation in a time of great peril"[1]


 * Dragons were all hunted into extinction by the knights of the Middle Ages for their crimes against humanity. In modern times, the Founder of a big name luxurious jewellery brand is a bitter but fair immortal. As the last dragon, they were controversially turned human as a wizard's act of mercy.


 * you trudge through snow as a fierce blizzard beats down on you. You spy a mountain in the distance and make for it, unknowingly travelling towards the home of a great beast. Upon arrival you realize your mistake and find that you are trapped within the mountain with the beast...


 * You can see the red string of fate that connects two people together. One day, a string appears on you. This has never happened before. You decide to follow it and see who it leads to.


 * Your spirit animal is actually the spirit of bad luck for the culture around you.