[Prompt] Purpose

Fighting. It always seems to circle around Azeroth like a pestilence. Alliance fighting Horde, Legion fighting all, etc. Yet what are you fighting for? Who are you fighting for? Do you just follow orders, or do you have a purpose behind every strike you place, every wound you heal, every delivery you make?


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This is meant to be a fun exercise, so there aren’t many rules.

Prompts are fun little things meant to inspire. You don’t have to perfectly match the prompt. Just let it inspire a thought.

I’m going to try and post these weekly, sometime between Saturday and Monday probably. Feedback and prompt ideas are welcome, so feel free to post them in the archive thread. Some prompts will be more thought provoking, some more whimsical. Respect your fellow writers.

Disclaimer: I cannot take full credit for every prompt. Some of these I create on my own, some are prompts I’ve seen that I’ve taken a WoW spin to, and some I’ve seen and used in the past, some are ideas spoken in passing between me and coworkers, or guildmates, or some are offered directly from folks on the forums. If I’ve been directly given a prompt from another person, I will credit them unless they do not want to. Otherwise, know some of these are gained through many means.


Archive: Kersia's Prompt Archive and Discussion

By sword I have trained that I forget when it is gone
and forget the right from wrong

I trained for years
to fit a sword in my hand
At times I forget that it’s gone.

Oh I can do it.
I’m good at it.
I can disappear,
fade into a fit
and be
the monster they fear

for you see
when I was reborn,
vulnerable
and fragile,
I was stolen
remolded
folded into
this sword in my hand

trained for years
you to be
unheard
unseen,
to obey
cruel hands .
at times I forget
that the sword is gone

so beware
I try
try to fit in,
embrace society’s norms
but a single flick of
the tongue
and poof
I’ll vanish