/u/lordhelmos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In your world a chosen few are born with an arcane mark. On their 18th birthday, those marked are visited by a planar creature. The marked gain powers related to the creature's domain for 5 years. When this period ends they are pulled into their creature's world. Tomorrow you turn 18.
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[WP] The human kingdoms reside in a center mainland. Six outer island are independently ruled by a powerful elemental dragon. The human king gains the crown by journeying to the outer islands and passing the challenge of each dragon. The elected king rules for 100 years. A new cycle begins.
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[WP] We always believed the gods were above us, watching from some paradise in the heavens. The world changed when we found their ancient bones buried deep within the earth.
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[WP] You are a Hawaiian warrior and master of Lua, the island martial arts. When the sun sleeps the nightmarchers come out to spirit away fresh souls for their ghostly army. You are determined to stop the night chief, but need the aid of the island gods. The gods are tempermental, favor is not easy.
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[WP] You work in an isolated mining outpost on the edge of known space. One day a battered ship filled with green marine recruits crash lands on your turf. They are being hunted. Their hunters are about to find out that you've fought things in the mines 10 times worse than what they can muster.
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[WP] When thunder rages in the sky, the gods are making war. You’ve seen the bodies of the divine that fell from the clouds after the rage subsides. This is the first that you’ve seen that was still breathing.
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[WP] Necromancy is common and the dead are allowed to remain in the world as long as they respect the living. When the sacred laws are broken you get involved. Your gaze settles on an undead rule breaker and a scythe materializes in your hand. You will remind them why the laws are respected.
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[WP] You have the power to stop time. While you cannot move or manipulate objects while time is stopped, what your power gives you is the ability to formulate strategies and tactics against your enemies.
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[WP] After a near death experience you gain the ability to detach your soul from your body. While detached, you gain powers that can affect the physical world. There are others like you, they tell you that using too much power attracts the attention of ethereal horrors our bodies protect us from.
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[WP] You can't remember what happened before you blacked out. You were just a McDonald's burger flipper working the graveyard shift. Now there are 3 dead highly trained assassins sprawled on the floor before you. You killed them all... with a deep fryer, plastic bag, and cash register.
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