Pillars of Eternity Fic Prompts

Weekly prompts for writers of Pillars of Eternity fanfiction. Come along and explore your Watcher's and companions' story with us!

[secret-st-waidwen-exchange]

I guess we're doing this!!

Secret St. Waidwen is a Pillars of Eternity-themed Secret Santa exchange organized by @herearedragons.

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Timeline

Sign-ups end: 9/30 12:00 EST

Match-ups revealed: 10/6 12:00 EST

Gifts due: 12/30 12:00 EST

Gifts revealed: 12/31/24 12:00 EST

[herearedragons]

h. hey guys

[herearedragons]

POE gift exchange interest check

so. a significant amount of people voted on the poll that they WOULD participate in a POE-themed gift event

how are we feeling about like. a Secret Santa kind of thing? something like:

signups in September/early October, everyone fills out a google form about what kind of art/fic they'd like to receive and what kind of art/fic they're willing to make, plus requests about stuff that shouldn't be included (triggers, phobias, disliked characters, that kind of thing) and an indication of what level of gore/suggestive content is acceptable

mid-to-late October, everyone gets assigned a user to make a gift for and gets the info about their preferences (I'd be fine with doing the match-ups, but I'll also be playing so. if anyone knows for a fact that they don't want to play but are fine with doing the match-ups so I don't get spoiled on who's my gifter let me know I guess??)

everyone then has about 2-2.5 months to make the gifts, that will get revealed sometime in late December. I'll make a side blog for that? maybe? idk. also the point of having a two-month window to make the gifts is to hopefully make it so that people who are busier on the irl side will be able to participate

interact with this post in any way if you would participate!

also. questions/suggestions are welcome because full disclosure I've never run an EventTM before

please help me find a better name for this than Secret St. Waidwen

[lunarowena]

Sinners

For @pillarspromptsweekly #0065: Iovara, fire, knowledge

Also on AO3

Content warning for torture.

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Iovara is the reason she joins the missionaries in the first place.

Athanasia walks past this corner of Creitum every day during her daily errands, and near every day she sees the dark haired elf preaching on the corner, fire in her eyes. Her mother does not know what to make of these new gods, but Athanasia is willing to listen.

She listens to the judgment of Woedica. The forgiveness of Eothas. The cycles of Berath. But mostly she listens to the elven priestess whose passion burns so brightly. Athanasia comes to love the gods. But she loved Iovara first.

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Iovara is the easiest and most difficult person to love at the same time. She exudes charisma. Everyone wants to talk to her, listen to her. But when everyone loves Iovara, when does Iovara have time to love Athanasia?

They find time. Stolen kisses between services. Warming each other’s feet in the night. It is with Iovara that Athanasia comes to know what lovers can do. What love itself is. And yet…

They grow apart as they grew together. As Athanasia finds more and more faith in the gods, devotes herself to Berath, Iovara starts to withdraw. Athanasia tries to chase her, but it’s like chasing the sun. For a short time, the sun had turned its warmth to her face and she will always cherish that time. Slowly, she stops running. She turns further toward Berath. She starts falling out of love.

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[lunarowena]

Zombies of Eternity

For @pillarspromptsweekly #0097, I rolled Eder, modern au, zombie apocalypse.

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Edér leaned against the fence and lit his pipe. Maybe he should be inside, but, gods, he was tired of running and hiding.

Gilded Vale was a nice place, once. Before the dead stopped being dead.

A long, drawn out moan came from the tree behind him. Edér took a long drag. “Ah, shut it, Selwyn.”

The zombie ineffectually struggled at the noose around its neck. They weren’t smart enough. It wasn’t going anywhere.

Another moan answered from across town.

“Damn it.” Sighing, Edér put out his pipe. Working his shoulders, he picked up the crowbar and unhinged door from the grass beside him.

More moans echoed. Raiding party. Edér dug in. Let them come to him rather than waste energy running over there.

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[lunarowena]

Calendula Officinalis

For @pillarspromptsweekly #0007: Bouquet.

I’m a bit stuck on the Lillian prompt for today, so have some Cal.

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Berath is not supposed to play favorites. That is the realm of Woedica, or Eothas with his soft spots for mortals. Berath is supposed to weigh every soul equally.

But there is one. And they watch her. Watch her through every life again and again. Is it Berath’s fault that this strong soul has not not succumbed to entropy? Or is Rymrgand curiously watching?

Is it because of this wholeness of soul that she keeps coming back to Berath again and again? This soul who was there in the beginning, who knew Berath before they became part of Berath? This soul, at the heart of the Inquisition, fighting for her gods? This soul, now young again, who turns her face back to Berath without fully knowing why?

Such a fitting name this time around, Calendula. Her parents should not be surprised at her choices. They might not have followed this soul through the ages, but they are the ones who named her after the marigold.

The humble marigold, offering to the dead, symbol of grief. Maybe they meant to name her after a symbol of the sun, of golden riches. But it is the marigold that is offered to Berath.

Maybe she would not come to them if they did not watch her. But in this life especially it is so fitting to call her.

Maybe Berath should not play favorites, but this soul is meant for more.

[iwoszareba]

Illustration based on prompt #78 Date from pillarspromptsweekly, my elements were: a member of watcher’s faction + candlelight + common interests. 

Tatzatl was a very minor character, but since he is also a godlike from Ixamitl, now a ship captain in Deadfire, I thought he and Qurin would have a lot to talk about. ✨

[queen-scribbles]

Blowing Smoke

for @pillarspromptsweekly fill 106: Awakened Anonymous

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Of all her duties as Lady of Caed Nua, Tavi’s least favorite, by far, was the petitioners. She liked helping people, sure, but listening to a multitude of them drone on about shit their own mayors should be handling was not helping. It was sitting in an uncomfortable chair for hours on end and trying not to let her mind wander. At least the flow was occasionally broken by someone coming with thanks–or a genuine problem that required her attention. And she had Aloth to elbow her when she failed at not letting her mind wander.

Today though…. today had been an unbroken line of petty grievances and finger-pointing. Tavi was on the verge of tearing her hair out, flinging some choice expletives at the postenagos, and walking out when it finally, finally ended.

“I have never been so glad to see a kith’s fuckin’ back in my life,” she muttered to Aloth as the last one moseyed out of the great hall. She slouched on the throne and ran both hands through her hair, letting out a groan of relief that it was done..

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Prompt #0106: January 20, 2020

In a world of recycled souls like Eora, odds are that the Watcher isn’t the only one whose past lifetime encountered Thaos in one of his many incarnations. What if the Watcher also isn’t the only one who Awakened to remember those encounters? Write a fic that chronicles the “What, you too?” moment of realizing others also knew him in a past life. Perhaps there are so many of them they form a Thaos-Adjacent Awakenings support group to work through the implications, or perhaps it’s just one other person with whom the Watcher can compare notes.

Remember to tag your fic with #pillars prompts weekly and/or mention @pillarspromptsweekly for ribbon record-keeping. Fics posted to AO3 can be added to our collection there. And feel free to post this prompt’s badge, below, with your fic, or on your profile, or wherever you would like to use it!

[pillarspromptsweekly]

Prompt #0106: January 20, 2020

In a world of recycled souls like Eora, odds are that the Watcher isn’t the only one whose past lifetime encountered Thaos in one of his many incarnations. What if the Watcher also isn’t the only one who Awakened to remember those encounters? Write a fic that chronicles the “What, you too?” moment of realizing others also knew him in a past life. Perhaps there are so many of them they form a Thaos-Adjacent Awakenings support group to work through the implications, or perhaps it’s just one other person with whom the Watcher can compare notes.

Remember to tag your fic with #pillars prompts weekly and/or mention @pillarspromptsweekly for ribbon record-keeping. Fics posted to AO3 can be added to our collection there. And feel free to post this prompt’s badge, below, with your fic, or on your profile, or wherever you would like to use it!

[pillarspromptsweekly]

Prompt #0106: January 20, 2020

In a world of recycled souls like Eora, odds are that the Watcher isn’t the only one whose past lifetime encountered Thaos in one of his many incarnations. What if the Watcher also isn’t the only one who Awakened to remember those encounters? Write a fic that chronicles the “What, you too?” moment of realizing others also knew him in a past life. Perhaps there are so many of them they form a Thaos-Adjacent Awakenings support group to work through the implications, or perhaps it’s just one other person with whom the Watcher can compare notes.

Remember to tag your fic with #pillars prompts weekly and/or mention @pillarspromptsweekly for ribbon record-keeping. Fics posted to AO3 can be added to our collection there. And feel free to post this prompt’s badge, below, with your fic, or on your profile, or wherever you would like to use it!

[dragonologist-phd]

Opening Up

I’ve officially written a coffeshop AU! and with the two characters I would least expect to go in a coffeshop AU! do I get my fanfic completion badge now?

This exists because 1) @pillarspromptsweekly put out the Leaden Tea prompt a while back 2) after I made Nona’s InstaBoard, @grumpy-jedi and I were joking about putting these two in a coffeshop AU and I just couldn’t resist 3) Nona’s gonna have a lot of angst in her canonical future and I think I owe her some pure fluff

(Also on AO3)

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[queen-scribbles]

Splinter

For @pillarspromptsweekly 105: Twin. This was fun, and a chance to play with something I’ve headcanon-ed for a long, long time. There’s some reference to another Emiri fic, Souls, but I think you could read this one on it’s own

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Ironically, they didn’t put the pieces together until it was all but inconsequential. Despite the years of friendship, despite their close bond, despite everything, realization didn’t dawn until Ukaizo was behind them and the Wheel a shattered ruin.

Stars twinkled overhead, crisply visible in a for-once cloudless sky, and Emiri lost herself in their glittering beauty. Better that than dwelling on… the day’s events and their fallout. She’d done enough recently; the gods could give her one night to gather her thoughts before the world plunged into whatever would come from the Wheel’s destruction. One night to rest was all she asked, one night of quiet with her friends–old and new. So far, they’d granted her that faint kindness.

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Prompt #0105: December 9, 2019

What’s this? Three weekly prompts in a row? This one has some spoilers behind the cut for quests in PoE1.

In Pillars lore, not all souls go through reincarnation intact. Some are splintered, worn away, recombined with bits of other souls. And sometimes a single soul is reborn as two unique kith.

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[lunarowena]

An Abundance of Aloths

For @pillarspromptsweekly #0075: Double

Also posted on AO3

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Aloth and Amaryllis stared up at the Engwithan machine built around an admittedly small adra pillar.

Aloth sighed. “Why were the Engwithans so enthusiastic about building temples on small islands in the middle of nowhere?”

“Going where the adra is, I’m guessing.” Amaryllis cocked her head, studying the contraption.

Aloth grabbed her arm and spun the pale elf to face him. “You’re not actually thinking about touching it, are you?”

“Well…” she grinned sheepishly, tugging at the end of her braid. “I at least want to know what it does.”

Aloth rolled his eyes. “What happened the last time we touched a strange machine?”

“Our souls have mostly recovered.” Amaryllis shook herself out of his grasp and took a few more steps closer to the machine.

Aloth stepped up after her. “You’re still missing a large portion of your soul to Eothas!”

Amaryllis squinted at the controls. “I’m pretty sure that’s not what this one does.”

“How sure is ‘pretty sure?’”

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[pillarspromptsweekly]

Prompt #0105: December 9, 2019

What’s this? Three weekly prompts in a row? This one has some spoilers behind the cut for quests in PoE1.

In Pillars lore, not all souls go through reincarnation intact. Some are splintered, worn away, recombined with bits of other souls. And sometimes a single soul is reborn as two unique kith.

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[dragonologist-phd]

Masquerade

More Nona backstory fics! This one’s for the Unusual Words prompt from @grumpy-jedi! Also partly inspired by the @pillarspromptsweekly prompt “Masquerade” because I love the idea of the Carnival of Mask and wanted to write something about it for a really long time!

Messaline: soft lightweight silk with a satin weave

(Also on AO3)

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[pillarspromptsweekly]

Prompt #0105: December 9, 2019

What’s this? Three weekly prompts in a row? This one has some spoilers behind the cut for quests in PoE1.

In Pillars lore, not all souls go through reincarnation intact. Some are splintered, worn away, recombined with bits of other souls. And sometimes a single soul is reborn as two unique kith.

It’s not all happy-soulmate-AU…consider Hiravias’ search to understand his spiritshift form, leading him to a soul twin determined to reunite Hiravias’ soul with his own through a fight to the death, just to enhance his own soul’s power. Consider also Ygadr, whose search for his soul twin in the White March led to his death, since the dragon born of his soul’s other half is likewise determined to consume the scattered parts of his soul. Nevertheless, even in grim Eora perhaps two kith born of the same soul could find not rivalry but shared strength. This week, write about soul twins. How do they discover their soul’s connection? What do they do about it?  

Remember to tag your fic with #pillars prompts weekly and/or mention @pillarspromptsweekly for ribbon record-keeping. Fics posted to AO3 can be added to our collection there. And feel free to post this prompt’s badge, below, with your fic, or on your profile, or wherever you would like to use it!