/u/lordhelmos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You live in a world where the sun is merciless. Hungry claws descend from the sky, hungry maws erupt from the dunes. Tribes wield leather and bone. The obsidian of their betters is brittle but deadly. You brave these lands wielding a rare and sought after artifact: a sword of iron.
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[WP] The cosmic horrors that Lovecraft wrote about are real. However, he was wrong about what they are. They are biblical angels.
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[WP] Long ago the gods spoke a language where words hold power and can bend reality. This power became magic and mages train a single word for years to unlock spells. You discover a relic that will upset the balance of the magical world, a club that makes mages forget words when struck in the head.
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[WP] It was the perfect plan. The chieftain's successor was bound and cast into the beast's lair in the dead of night. No one asked questions, for they all feared the cave. 15 years later, the successor that was supposed to be dead emerges from the woods seeking their birthright.
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[WP] Angels have come. They are harvesters who take souls and leave husks behind. Those with the summoner's mark can call demons to fight back. The price for a demon's power is steep and most summoners would rather run than fight. Your job is to find summoners and enlist them, by force if necessary.
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[WP] You are a poor urchin in a shanty town. To escape the authorities after stealing food, you stow away on a docked ship in the dead of night. You wake up the next day to discover that the ship your hiding on belongs to an undead pirate captain.
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[WP] There are many dimensions inter-linked with each other. Some are much more advanced than others in terms of technology or magic. Sometimes rifts open between dimensions and something from one goes to another, causing problems. You are a member of "the observatory" and you fix those problems.
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[WP] You are a superhero with the ability to forge water into solid objects. One day your mission goes south. You find yourselves surrounded by impossible odds. As your team falls, one by one, the captain of your group uses his dying breath for one last act. He activates the sprinkler system.
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[WP] You are a lesser demon who is charge of the sinner orientation -the process in which the damned are educated on where they will be spending their eternity of suffering.
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[WP] As the reigning supervillain, you have prepared your superfortress for the heroic onslaught. You didn't expect was the quality of superheroes being sent by the league to be so terrible. Watching the heroes fail against your fortress defenses is so painful that you consider letting them win.
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