Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #70 - Buried Treasure

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 - Buried Treasure

Finding buried treasure (or burying it in the first place) is a trope of so much fiction, as well as a staple of archaeology and looting. It can be hoards of Roman coins hidden from invaders and never retrieved, a chest of pirate gold hidden under the sands of a desert island, jewellery in a long-abandoned tomb, or looted spoils of war hurriedly thrown in a pit as the enemy closes in.

Tell me a story of buried treasure from your world ! Who buried it, where and why ? What legends surround it ? Who is searching for it ? What clues are the following ? What hides or guards the treasure ? What do the searchers find, and was it worth the hardship and risk ?

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:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.