Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #112 Return To Life
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Return To Life
It's Easter, so I thought I'd come up with an Easter-themed prompt for the week 😀
Resurrection, or returning to life, is a constant theme in religion, mythology and gaming. Even the earliest religions had the concept of resurrection. The Egyptians worshipped Osiris as a resurrected god, and by the classical period, both Mithras and Jesus were supposed to have returned from the dead.
But there are also more mundane cases, people who where on the verge of being buried and then spring up, seemingly returned from death. In more primitive societies, this might just reflect someone waking from a coma, but the usual result was that people would scream in horror and then kill them properly on the assumption that they were some kind of undead.
In gaming terms, people coming back from the dead is almost normalised. In many games like Dungeons & Dragons, high level clerics perform resurrection spells on an almost routine basis, and of course in video games it's the norm to re-spawn from a save point instead of having to start the whole game over.
Tell me about someone returning from the dead in your setting. Are they a god or a mortal ? How do those around them, and society more generally, react ? Is it a unique event, or relatively common for the wealthy or famous ? If the rich and powerful can be easily returned to life, do frustrated heirs find ways to permanently dispose of them in order to gain their inheritance before they, too, grow too old to enjoy it ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
Interesing... in Mortis Custos Lex and I have at least two different undeath concepts. Mortis himself and then the rest of the undead enemies!
In World of Kedra there are also undead! The undead only feature later on in the core storyline so I also created a pre-story short series about a character that is a child initiate in a Temple that trains Necromancers.