Are you ready to enter the magical worlds of high fantasy? When we read high fantasy, we go to worlds with huge kingdoms, mythical creatures, and massive battles between good and evil. You’ve come to the right place if you’re a writer who wants to start your own high fantasy tale but needs ideas. This page has some high fantasy writing tasks that are meant to spark your creativity and help you write legendary stories full of magic and adventure.
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1. The Forgotten Pact
In a realm where dragons govern the skies and humans the land, a thousand-year-old pact between them is accidentally broken. A young scholar discovers a way to restore peace, but it involves a journey to the realm of forgotten beasts, where creatures lost to myth still roam.
2. The Living Forest
An entire forest comes to life and begins to migrate toward a powerful magical city. A druid and a reluctant city guard are sent to investigate, only to uncover an ancient secret that could either save or doom their world.
3. Echoes of the Fallen Empire
A ruined empire’s greatest weapon—a sentient sword of unimaginable power—awakens after centuries. It chooses a humble blacksmith’s apprentice as its new wielder, thrusting them into a battle between forces that want to either control or destroy it.
4. The Shadow of the Sun King
A king has discovered a way to harness the power of the sun itself, casting the rest of the world into darkness. A band of outcasts from different races must steal the sun’s essence back to restore balance before the world withers away.
5. The Phoenix Heir
In a kingdom where rulers are chosen by a mythical phoenix, a non-magical servant accidentally bonds with the new phoenix hatchling. Now, they must prove their worth as the unexpected heir while facing opposition from every side.
6. The Masked Isle
An island that appears once every century is said to hold the secret to eternal youth. A pirate captain and a scholar form an uneasy alliance to find it, but the island is alive, ever-shifting, and protected by vengeful spirits who guard its secrets.
7. The Weeping Mountains
A drought has plagued the land for a decade, and the only water source left is in the cursed Weeping Mountains. A group of desperate villagers hires a disgraced mage to lead them through the mountains, but every tear shed has a story, and those stories are hungry.
8. The Guild of Lost Time
A secretive guild claims to have found a way to manipulate time itself. When a young thief steals one of their enchanted hourglasses, they find themselves caught in a loop, reliving the same day in a different body. Each day brings them closer to the truth—or their doom.
9. The City Beneath the Sand
Beneath the vast desert lies a hidden city, buried long ago to imprison a being of immense power. When the sands shift and reveal its gates, an unlikely alliance between a desert nomad and a scholar from a rival kingdom must decide whether to free the ancient prisoner or keep them buried.
10. The Harbinger’s Bargain
A kingdom is plagued by a series of mysterious deaths foretold by a masked prophet known as the Harbinger. When the princess’s name is next, she seeks out the Harbinger and learns there is a way to break the prophecy, but it involves a forbidden ritual that could shatter reality.
11. The Starforge
A forge that fell from the heavens grants the smith who wields it the power to craft weapons that can kill gods. When a lowly village blacksmith inherits the forge, gods and mortals alike seek them out, either to bargain, threaten, or worship.
12. The Warlord’s Remorse
A warlord who has conquered half the known world suddenly stops their campaign and retreats into isolation, haunted by visions of an apocalyptic future. A young warrior, sent to assassinate them, becomes entangled in their quest to prevent the catastrophe they once sought to create.
13. The Sky’s End
The sky begins to tear like fabric, revealing a land of storms and lightning above. A mage who can read the language of storms is tasked with finding a way to stitch the sky back together, but it requires them to ascend to the unknown world above and confront its ancient guardians.
14. The Seven Seals of the Elemental Kings
Seven seals protect the balance of the world’s elements. When the first seal is broken, a young monk is chosen to journey across the land and convince each elemental king to reseal their domain, facing tests that challenge both their mind and soul.
15. The Dreamweaver’s Curse
A Dreamweaver—a mage who creates dreams to heal the broken-hearted—is cursed to live through the nightmares they weave. They must journey into the dreams of a cursed prince to lift both their curses, but the deeper they go, the more reality blurs.
16. The River of Souls
A river that guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife begins to flow backward, causing chaos among the living and the dead. A ferryman who can speak with the dead must travel to the source and fix the flow, aided by a soul who refuses to move on.
19. The Symphony of the Sea
An ancient, sunken city’s orchestra plays a haunting melody that can be heard on stormy nights. When a young bard begins hearing the melody even on clear days, they discover they are the key to an unfinished symphony that could calm the seas—or awaken what lies beneath.
20. The Shattered Crown
A magical crown that determines the next ruler of a fractured kingdom shatters into five pieces, each one granting different powers. Five factions now compete to collect all the pieces and crown their leader. However, a hidden sixth piece, held by an unassuming farmer, has the power to end the game before it begins.
Feel free to use, modify, or expand upon any of these prompts to create your next epic High Fantasy story! Please leave a comment down below if any of those prompts spoke to you, or if you have any of your own prompts you would like to add for others to try. As always, Happy Writing!
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