Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #68 - Recruited !
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 - Recruited !
*Tell me a story about recruits for the armies in your setting ! Are they volunteers, conscripted, or even just press-ganged off the street ? Or perhaps they are feudal retainers or tribal warriors following their chieftain into battle. Are they from a single demographic or class ? How are they trained ? Are they allowed leave before setting off for the front ? What of their families - are they proud or ashamed of them, do they look forward to their return or hold a funeral knowing they'll never be seen again ? I want to hear the human side of the story ! *
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.
My good friend, the master of Prompts🥰🥰🥰 Recruiting soldiers sounds very tough. I bet some join willingly, while others are forced. Families must feel torn between pride and worry. It's literally like a whole drama unfolding before battle.
I enjoyed this one too bro