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 - Fortune Telling
Wanting to look into the future seems to be a natural thing for humans. Through the ages, fortune telling has waxed and waned in popularity, but it's always been around in one form or another.
*Tell me about fortune telling in your setting ! Who seeks it, who are the ones telling fortunes ? Is it something done between friends around a cosy fireside, or do you go to visit a fortune teller at their shop, office, tent or wagon ? What methods are used - cards, bowls of water, animal entrails, crystal balls, yarrow stalks, astrology, spirit summoning something else entirely, or all of the above ? What is the official view - is it banned, frowned upon but tolerated, seen as harmless (possibly non-real) amusement, or even (as was the case for Romans, Greeks and Babylonians) part of state policy making ? *
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.