/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As is tradition your family has taken care of and passed down an ancient book, unfortunately nobody in living memory can actually read the book which is why you have devoted your life to studying ancient languages. Finally after several decades of research you finish translating the title
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[WP] Just like how there is a grim reaper to lead souls to the afterlife so too is there a far less well known entity that leads new souls into existence
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[WP] Some people are born with the ability to use actual magic. You are a stage magician who was one of the few born with the ability, and due to your career path never noticed it
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[WP] Vampires, so used to being at the top of the food chain, always look so surprised when you take a bite into their necks and start draining their blood
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[WP] There are many methods of immortality available, each one having a specific drawback and advantage. As such there are millennia long debates about which method is truly the best, with rivalries over centuries based on a single syllable difference
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[WP] You hate garlic, are highly introverted and thus like to stay indoors all day and have a phobia of crosses. Unfortunately this has caused rumours that you are a vampire to spring up, which is a shame as it is already hard enough talking to people let alone an angry mob led by a vampire hunter
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[WP] In the space of a few days every dream you have ever had came true, all you have ever wanted delivered right into your lap, and you hate it beyond words
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[WP] You were a powerful necromancer in life, and after being struck down you used your talents to prolong your existence by sucking out the life of everything around you. As you sit in a barren wasteland of your own creation pangs of loneliness strike you, but you can't die just yet
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[WP] Somewhere in the world an ancient prophecy was finally fulfilled, powers that threatened the world were quelled and peace was restored to a war torn land. This is not that story however, this is the story of the aftermath, equally as tumultuous in different ways
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[WP] Thousands of years in the future the very atmosphere has been infused with nanites that reconstruct matter to the whims of those with specific genetic markers with verbal cues. After a devastating war and a reset of society those with the marker are now called wizards and nanites magic
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