Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #118 - The Mysterious Tower
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 - The Mysterious Tower
You can let your imagination rip with this one ! Write a story from your setting (or any other setting you like) around the idea of a mysterious tower.
The concept of the mysterious tower is a staple of fiction and myth going back as far as humans have been creating fixed structures. It could be an abandoned Roman watchtower, one of the wonderful (and still highly mysterious) towers built by the Nuraghe people in Sardinia (possibly the same folk the Egyptians called "Sherdens" or "Shardana"). It might be from high medieval myth, where the Green Knight or a robber baron lives, or perhaps even a dragon in it's undercroft. For more gothic tales, the Victorians built a huge number of follies in the form of towers, and of course the Balkans are littered with them. In more modern or sci-fi settings, there could be abandoned water towers or WW2 Flak Towers, industrial buildings, or strange alien structures with an incomprehensible purpose.
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.