/u/Rancerle's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Magic has been discovered and spells work in every language! The drawback is that certain languages only have access to certain schools of magic. You vaguely remember your old life as a linguist before you became the most dangerous person on the planet, by piecing together Proto-Indo-Eurasian
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[WP] The mystical elite of the world long held dominion over the magically impotent. Sorcerers treated the rest like slaves. One day however, technology finally caught up just enough for the "slaves" to fight back. Recount your tales as a soldier in the Great War of Lightning.
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[WP] Civilization makes first contact with extraterrestrials at last, or so we thought...because the first thing they ask, in perfect latin, is where to find the Roman legions because they are needed to combat the greatest threat the universe has ever known...
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[WP] You are a dog, your human just disappeared behind a weird blanket thing, you must go on a quest and find them!
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[EU] Voldemort's curse was discovered almost immediately. And so, a solution was found for the DAtDA class. This is the story of the twin professors who dodged the curse by alternating between teaching DAtDA and charms.
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[WP] While resting beside the lake in which Excalibur supposedly rests, you muse about the prophecy attached to the blade, and are startled as a blue skinned maiden rises from the lake, sword in hand, having chosen you.
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[WP] Years into the future a ship of colonists is sent to explore a cosmic anomaly discovered thousands of lightyears away. However, when said ship almost immediately returns with said colonists hyper-advanced descendants, it is realized the anomaly was in fact, a white hole...
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[WP] As it turns out, all of the legends involving the "King in The Mountain" trope were true all along. Now the nations of the world must summon upon all their legendary heroes in their collective darkest hour.
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[WP] You are a shape shifting immortal, except you've forgotten that. You are subjected to a memory treatment and remember everything! What is troubling, is the time you were caught getting up after an execution, and accidentally started the world's largest religion...
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