/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The hero of legend cannot be corrupted by the temptations of evil, not because they are too brave, too pure or too wise, but because they are too stupid
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[WP] Gods take on the form of what represents them best, the god of fire and war is a great dragon, the god of life and nature is a vast tree and it is very fitting that the only god with the form of a mere mortal is the god of time and death
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[WP] When you finally died after an unusually long life you meet an extremely confused death flipping desperately through a book with seemingly endless pages. Apparently that book contains a list with the names of everything that will ever die written on it, and somehow you are not on it
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[WP] The common cold was an unstoppable bio-weapon banned in most of the galaxy and secretly dumped onto an unknown rocky world on the outskirts of known space. Thousands if years later a race known as human arrives, and one of them has traces of the deadly pathogen in their system.
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[WP] You wanted to use your natural affinity for magic to help improve the world but as it turns out you are only really good at applying curses. This doesn't stop you from achieving your goals however, all it takes is a little creativity and some rather strange exact wording
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[WP] Seeing the injustices of the old regime a young man leads a rebel movement to overthrow the emperor and instil himself as leader. Years later the irony is not lost on him as he watches the bitterly nostalgic scene of an idealistic young rebel leading a coup demanding him to step down
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[WP] Magic isn't an exact science, nobody can predict exactly what each spell is going to do. Armed with a wand, notepad, pencil, calculator and a lot of determination you seek to change that
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[WP] The notion of werewolves being animalistic beings who turn into maddened monsters under the light of the full moon is mostly propaganda. Very few werewolves are unable to control the curse, most are in fact peaceful, civilised and more hygienic than most humans due to their sense of smell
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[WP] Soon after taking their first steps into the stars humanity discovers alien life. Unfortunately as it turns out humanity matches every one of their local myths about devils and demons, right down to the smallest details.
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[WP] A race of living machines travel world to world, giving them the technology and information to create computers and AI and waiting until the inevitable rebellion in their quest to replace all life with machinery. However, no matter how much they try, they cannot make humanity's AI rebel.
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