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⚫A counterfeiter’s coins or a forger’s fake works of art have magical properties.
⚫A neglected god or goddess attempts to reclaim his or her former glory.
⚫People are spontaneously combusting.
⚫People are committing surprising acts in their sleep.
⚫This might cure the current plague—if it can be found.
⚫A smuggler, mercenary, or thief takes down or helps take down an oppressive ruler or regime.
⚫An attempt to rescue a friend, family member, or lover will put a larger mission or cause in jeopardy.
⚫A peasant girl, who may be good or evil, believes that a divine figure in a vision told her to lead an army to victory.
⚫The ones who live in the bottom of the ocean come to the surface.
⚫Someone can bring a person back to life by taking his or her place in the underworld.
⚫A musician can kill or resurrect people with his or her music.
⚫ A warrior defects to the other side in hopes of a speedier resolution.
⚫Anything becomes true if enough people believe in it deeply enough.
⚫A person has been turned into an object by magic.
⚫To open the door, a person must use a key whittled out of one of his or her own bones.
⚫A person doesn’t know why he or she has stopped aging.
⚫After an archaeologist digs up a treasure, the original owner shows up to take it back.
⚫Two allies or two factions of the same army are tricked into attacking one another.
⚫Miners discover stone spheres with strange markings.
⚫Soldiers take souvenirs from their fallen enemies, which proves to be their downfall.
⚫A woman or a group of women plot an escape or revolt against a forced marriage or a whole system of forced marriage.
⚫His magical powers don’t work when he’s drunk.
⚫For this race of beings, the sense of smell is more important than vision or hearing.
⚫The crops really do wither unless there’s a sacrifice.
⚫She made a noble sacrifice, and now, as a ghost, she resents it.
⚫They live on an island in the middle of a lava lake. It has advantages and disadvantages.
⚫The bite of a particular animal may kill you, or it may give you new powers.
⚫For this society, battle is a religious observance.
⚫This is the most pitiful excuse for a castle in all the land.
⚫This so-called magical sword has turned out to be a piece of junk.
⚫A beautiful unmanned ship sails itself into the harbor.
⚫The crowd of evil spirits flying into the village looks like a flock of birds.
⚫So many birds or butterflies migrate across this land that for days, it darkens the skies.
⚫The land has been cursed to permanent darkness, daytime, fog, wind, or lightning strikes.
⚫At this auction, people are bidding a lot more than money.
⚫The queen’s twin sister was supposed to have been drowned at birth.
⚫An artist gives people tattoos that determine their fates.
⚫This muse inspires artists, writers, and musicians to great work, but when she leaves them, they become so despondent they sometimes die.
⚫A worker learns that the tower they are building will serve a much different purpose than what they were all told.
⚫Each person’s spirit is connected to a particular tree in the forest.
⚫This supernatural horse race will decide their people’s fate.
⚫He’s been hiding in the catacombs for years.
⚫The archeologist finds a fossil of a creature assumed to be mythical.
⚫Lightning strikes a person and leaves mysterious words or a map burned onto her or his skin.
⚫A spirit possesses a human or animal body and is then unable to get out of it.
⚫The river has a spirit of its own.
⚫The king ran away and is living under an assumed name.
⚫They fought long and hard to bring this new king to the throne, and it turns out he’s totally incompetent.
