Spooktober 2025
Another year, another spooky season! This article is currently where I'm brainstorming ideas for each of the prompts, but there's no telling how many I'll get to and how many I can roll up into a single entry. Hopefully, I'll finish enough to earn a badge!
Prompt 1: Ring
Ideas
- An item belonging to someone, such as a ring gifted to a lover.
- A magical ring around which practitioners perform rituals.
- A circular structure that is traditional to a culture.
Prompt 2: Amiss
Ideas
- Heyir's perspective prior to approaching Ezeki before the war.
- A missing item, such as a book from the Library.
Prompt 3: Doom
Ideas
- Fate and choice - a complicated web, especially for a 'Reincarnation'
- Location article for where Heyir the others were exiled.
Prompt 4: Sting
Ideas
- A stinging sea creature native to the Bes Island Chain
- A medicine that stings as you drink it.
- Sparkling water when you're dehydrated
Prompt 5: Downfallen
Ideas
- A ruined city, such as the former community of Bamansano
Prompt 6: Grief
Ideas
- Rafa and Bee after the loss of Ravi
- 'Giving someone grief'
- Mourning traditions
- The question of Yashelin mortality or lack thereof.
Prompt 7: Chamber
Ideas
- Ezeki's apartment at the Library
- The hidden, glamored office space that Nanatu created and nobody touched for a long time, until Seri and Zibibi accidentally dispelled the glamor.
- Sanctuaries as a room in a Yashelin home and their significance
Prompt 8: Graven
Ideas
Prompt 9: Swift
Ideas
- A species of bird, like the chimney swifts.
- Maran's ship, the Siren
- Areta Maikir is known for moving extremely fast in short bursts.
- The swift decision to exile Ravi which ended in serious consequences.
Prompt 10: Remote
Ideas
- The culture of the Mapek Fas
- Description of S. Kotuye Outpost and the people who choose (or not) to live and work there.
Prompt 11: Torment
Ideas
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"There's a lot of abuse a Yashelin body can take before the Shrine calls them home." - the Ida
- Share Brida's story with a focus on the torture she endured on Kivria after her exile. Eventually, her captors pushed her too far and she died in horrible agony. Her body may be whole when she appears in front of Heyir, but her mind is another matter.
Prompt 12: Pockets
Ideas
- What would you find in the pockets of the average person? What's in Heyir's oh-so-precious bag?
Prompt 13: Foes
Ideas
- When Yasmine was besieged during the takeover of Idelpol.
- The 'two sides' of the Aravun Civil War.
Prompt 14: Pits
Ideas
- A wishing well
- Chamu's duck pond
- Aravun mining operations
- The caves of Bamansano and the graveyards located inside of them left over from the Great Flood.
Prompt 15: Noisome
Ideas
- Something stinky... I'm going to have to spend more time brainstorming for this prompt.
Prompt 16: Broods
Ideas
- The way that the Yashelin blend their instinct to nest for their loved ones with traditional ways to satisfy said instinct, such as communal sleeping arrangements and themed decor.
Prompt 17: Peril
Ideas
- Someone in danger, doing something dangerous, like a 'perilous journey'
- Ravi's exile and their 'perilous' journey home.
- When Kivrian!Maikir tried to fish too close to the boundary barrier (against the law), crashed into it, and drowned.
Prompt 18: Watchful
Ideas
- The story of the Laila's Eyes.
- The Watchers as a group
- An article about the Laila as a mythological figure, separate from her real identity.
Prompt 19: Defile
Ideas
- Blasphemy against one's gods
- the destruction of a relic considered holy, sacred, or otherwise valuable
- controversy around Eve living in the Shrine of Creation (once the general public realizes that she's there)
Prompt 20: Barrow
Ideas
- the caves of Bamansano, where those who were killed during the Great Flood are still trapped. The biggest graveyard has never discovered in recent memory, sealed shut by Pio.
- Two-wheeled carts - a Fas flower vendor?
Prompt 21: Drown
Ideas
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-Who was Maikir, as a Kivrian? Maikir as a young but talented Bes fisherman who died via drowning when the conditions on the water changed suddenly. His boat wound up drifting too far despite his best efforts and he slammed into the barrier ward, destroying his boat.

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