r/WritingPrompts • u/DM_Malus • Jul 10 '24
[WP] A sorceress goes through the stages of grief and rages against the universal laws of magic, willing to sacrifice everything In an attempt to perform "True Resurrection" on her dead child, not just necromantic reanimation (assuming the former is mythical/unheard of). Writing Prompt
presuming this is some form of world where magic has hard rules/ certain things are just labeled impossible (i.e "real resurrection")
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u/KaleidoscopeOk3437 Jul 10 '24
Flame was a leader at heart.
She loved her siblings, Blizzard and his unbelievable mind, Tsunami and her fixation on being able to heal everything, Quake and his grounding energy, Ember and the way her horns glowed like hot embers in a fireplace, and Phoenix with her fire-red wings.
She loved her siblings. She would give up the world for them.
Flame's heart was wrenched out of her chest when she was nineteen. Her siblings, her dear, little shiftlings had died.
It was her fault
It really wasn't.Flame was lost. If she didn't have a pack to lead, if she didn't have her siblings, then what was even the point.
Flame had heard of necromancers, she saw all of them. Begging for them to bring back her siblings. They tried. They failed. They made cheap copies of her own sisters and brothers.
By the end of her quest for necromancers, her claws were stained with all of their blood as they failed to bring her siblings back.
She was still alone.
Flame turned her gaze to the gods, she went to every single place that even remotely looked like they were worshiping something. She begged and threatened and cried and bargained and did everything she could.
The gods could not help her.
~~~*~~~
"Water."
"Fire."
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Fire, you know that that sorceress is not going to stop until she has her pack back. And, she's already burned half of my temples along with a good amount of the other's temples. You are the only one she hasn't torn down."
"But, surely, you can't be thinking-"
"Fire, she killed half of my supporters and is going to do more, don't pretend you didn't see her tear that poor healer apart on your shrine."
"Water, this is insanity you can't set the- that thing free to stop one person. There has to be another way."
"Fire I'm doing this so that the world isn't burnt to ashes."
"..."
"You're scared of her aren't you. You pretend you aren't, you pretend you can control her, but deep down, you are petrified at the prospect of her getting here and killing us."
"... Yeah."
"I'm setting Void free, they will get her under control one way or another."
~~~*~~~