/u/ShadowDurza's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humans are the most lethal species in the known universe, but not because of behavior. Everything about human biology is peerlessly toxic to non-Terran lifeforms. Even direct contact with oils and bacteria on human skin can dissolve entire limbs in moments, to say nothing of body fluids.
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[WP] Everyone always treats instant deaths as "So quick they didn't even feel it" But what few realize is that these kinds of deaths are the most likely to create ghosts.
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[WP] A king cut off the hands and gouged out the eyes of an Artificer after creating several magic swords for their knights. Later on, they figured out how to make magical prosthetics and went to the king's enemy to make their wounded soldiers deadlier than ever before.
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[WP] Rock And Role and Heavy Metal being labeled as "The Devil's Music." Is actually a clever ploy by the Devil to turn humans away from them because anything that stimulates strong feelings and emotions is poison to demons and other forces of darkness.
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[WP] Every thousand years, the Demon King revives and attempts to destroy everything, and every single time some heroes stop him. After his hundredth defeat, he begins to reflect on why he even does it. This doesn't sit well with the primordial intelligence that orchestrates the whole thing.
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[WP] All civilizations in the universe run on magic, all magic runs on thoughts, specifically imagination, and the source of over 90% of all imagination in the universe is Earth and humans. With humans on the verge of extinction, each of the peoples of the universe try their own ways to save them.
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[WP]Between the angels and the demons are the undefinable entities that, when invoked, grant only what their summoners deserve. People rarely invoke them because those that believe they deserve prosperity in fact deserve calamity, and those that truly deserve prosperity rarely seek it.
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[WP] Humans warred with magic-using monsters by training to awaken innate elemental powers. After coexistence was achieved, the art fell out of use. You're trying to revive it for practical use but your grandfather, the once idolized Sunlight Elemental is now viewed as a thousands-killing psychotic.
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[WP] A warrior in training finally unlocks his magic: Darkness. He really wants to be a hero, but darkness is used a lot by evil. One day, he finds a sage that takes him on a spiritual journey to discover the goodness in darkness, and how to fight the ultimate evil that uses light.
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