Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #78 - Exile
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 - Exile
Exile can apply to both individuals and groups, and can be something imposed as a legal sanction, or chosen by a person or group themselves out of fear of what could happen to them if they stay where they are. It can also be internal or external, depending on whether the exile goes to a remote part of their homeland or leaves the country (or even planet) entirely.
This is a nice broad-brush one for you to get your teeth into ! Tell me a story of an exile or group of exiles in your setting. What did they do, or were afraid of ? Where did they go, and how did they get there ? Was exile forever, or were they able to eventually return ? Did the state send anyone to them while they were in exile - to try to persuade them to come home, to kidnap them to take them back to face trial, or even to assassinate them.
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.