Fantasy Story Ideas

Fantasy story ideas to seed your next collaborative story. Use any line as a one-sentence premise and let each writer add the next.

1. A blacksmith inherits an apprentice claiming to be the god of fire.
2. Two rival bakeries discover their dough is ancient warring spirits.
3. The royal taster wakes up immortal.
4. A bard's lute starts playing songs about a war that hasn't happened.
5. A cartographer maps a kingdom that rearranges itself every full moon.
6. An apprentice witch is asked to break a curse on a town that doesn't believe in curses.
7. The forest hires a lawyer.
8. A queen orders the moon to be brought down for her birthday.
9. A dragon agrees to teach a school class.
10. A village's lost children return on the same night, the same age they vanished.
11. A retired knight is paid to lose tournaments.
12. A river god is asked to vote in a local election.
13. An orphanage is run by a polite goblin.
14. A wizard's last apprentice inherits a tower with no doors.
15. Twin princes are betrothed to the same shadow.
16. A miner unearths a god, asleep, and decides not to wake it.
17. A traveling musician finds an instrument that plays only her grandmother's songs.
18. The royal librarian has been quietly editing prophecy for sixty years.
19. A storm refuses to leave a single village.
20. A guardian dragon hires a marketing assistant.