50 Fantasy Writing Prompts: Wizards and Dragons

Greetings, adventurers! Welcome to our 50 Fantasy Writing Prompts: Wizards and Dragons, grab your enchanted quills because today I’m sharing an epic list of 50 writing prompts featuring wizards, dragons, and all manner of magical ideas to ignite your creativity.

Whether you’re working on a new book, crafting a short story, or just writing for fun, these prompts offer tons of magical springboards. They’re filled with fantasy themes ranging from:

• Whimsical tales of quirky wizards befriending displaced dragons
• Thrilling quests to save ancient dragon civilizations
• Lighthearted mishaps like misfired mini pet dragon experiments
• Epic showdowns between battle wizard rivals
• And much more!

With these prompts you can explore coming of age tales, unusual friendships overcoming differences, wizard schools and training, mystical artifacts, daring rescue missions, unbelievable discoveries, and of course…dragons, dragons, dragons! They invite you to play with prophecy, ancestry, forbidden secrets, and unleashing adventure.

So spark your imagination today by diving into these 50 Fantasy Writing Prompts Wizards and Dragons. Where will your magical ideas lead or take flight? The story seeds await. Now let your writing wander!

Here are 50 Fantasy Writing Prompts Wizards and Dragons you can use:

1. A young dragon who doesn’t want to grow up to breathe fire or fight knights, but wants to become a wizard instead.
2. A school for wizards where each pupil is paired with a dragon companion for life. Write a story about one such pairing.
3. A benevolent old wizard retires to a cottage in the woods, only to have a displaced dragon show up. They become friends.
4. In a fantasy realm, a sickness spreads turning dragons to stone. Only one young wizard has the powers to cure it.
5. After a hundred years in hiding, dragons have largely faded to myth. Now they are starting to emerge again.
6. Two rival wizards duel using dangerous, unpredictable dragon magic with chaotic results.
7. A dragon rider quests to find the lost dragon egg, racing against evil wizards who seek it for dark purposes.
8. An eccentric wizard attempts to create a spell to give her the ability to transform into a dragon at will.
9. An exploration into the life stages of dragons and the impact of human wizard magic on their growth cycles.
10. The last surviving wizard and dragon meet, not realizing they are the final of their kinds. A bond is formed.
11. A gifted young wizard befriends a runt, disabled dragon pup the others ignore. They encourage each other.
12. A dragonFarmer raises and breeds dragons for wizard community use, but has growing doubts over the conditions.
13. An apprentice wizard accidentally transforms her irritable master into a dragon. Searching for a way to restore him, chaos ensues.
14. While out for a ride, a young dragon and wizard see smoke—they get separated rescuing villagers from a wildfire.
15. A warrior wizard returns home from defeat in battle. For solace, they recount childhood tales of following friendly dragons on adventures.
16. A hot headed dragon and cool-headed wizard swap bodies, learning to understand one another.
17. A timid dragon is bullied by others and hurt while a young wizard tends the wounds, planting seeds of friendship.
18. An explorer wizard discovers an ancient dragon city frozen in an arctic valley, its secrets protected for eons.
19. An eccentric wizard scientist’s experiments to create miniature pet dragons backfire when they escape the lab wreaking adorable chaos.
20. Two wizard friends get into a magical debate on the ethics of keeping pet dragons that accidentally brings their Drake statues to colorful life.
21. After her village is raided by enemy soldiers, a farm girl discovers she’s unwittingly inherited a rare egg soon to hatch into a powerful dragon guardian.
22. An aging dragon and wizard, both outcasts, cross paths in an enchanted forest. Their meeting transforms into an enduring alliance in spite of old prejudices.
23. A discovery of ancient scrolls points to an ancestral connection between two wizard families. But to prove it, they must follow puzzling dragon-marked maps.
24. A legendary dragon, slumbering for ages beneath a ruined city, awakens. It soon becomes clear a prophesized chain of events is unfolding.
25. While exploring a magical library, a wizard’s apprentice finds an odd gauntlet. Upon trying it on, they discover it grants the wearer the power to fully shift into a dragon.
26. Two rival wizard masters compete in a grand tournament to settle their feud once and for all. Each uses summoned dragons in their battle of skills.
27. An eccentric young wizard creates new shades of brightly colored paints. Their first sale is to a finicky old dragon who demands vivid custom hues.
28. An explorer team of wizards and warriors sets out on an expedition deep into an uncharted jungle following dragon migration patterns. Strange mysteries await.
29. While in dragon form on a forest hunt, a shape shifting wizard has an unfortunate mishap and ends up stuck halfway through an enchanted transition back to human.
30. A widowed dragon rider, unable to go on without their recently fallen dragon partner, quests into the mystical unknown hoping to bring back its spirit.
31. An ancient red dragon awakens from hibernation and discovers the wizard its attacked centuries ago has kept pace with its aging through powerful magic and seeks a final duel.
32. From birth, a princess is prophesized to be bonded to a dragon. But on her 16th birthday, it’s revealed her foretold guardian is actually just a gentle runt kept in the menagerie as a pet.
33. A blacksmith’s apprentice realizes their true calling when they discover a magical gift for working with enchanted materials to craft custom armor and gear for the famous royal dragon aerie forces.
34. Due to dwindling food in their harsh northern homeland, an anxious dragon clan prepares to migrate south. But their chief’s young daughter sneaks off longing to see the famed human wizard cities.
35. After wagons of supplies are attacked on roads through a misty forest, a daring plan is made to capture the lurking dragon thieves that involves an alluring trap baited with mead and magical music.
36. The orphan stablekeep of a traveling wizard circus makes an incredible discovery one late night— the show’s purported “fraud” dragon actually talks! But its reasoning and plea for help changes everything.
37. A weary dragon courier has seen centuries go by, endlessly delivering messages between remote wizard towers. They long for freedom and adventure they witness from those mysterious sealed letters.
38. A shipwrecked wizard awakens alone on a strange island to find they are not the only one stranded there—it’s inhabited solely by cutthroat dragons!
39. An apprentice wizard quests to gather the rarest mushrooms to cure their master’s illness—rumored to only grow in caves where ancient gold dragons nest.
40. After heavy losses in a brutal siege, a despairing ruler makes a desperate pact offering lifelong fealty to any dragon who will help defeat the enemy and save the kingdom.
41. An idealistic young wizard sells their books, cauldron, and belongings to secretly purchase and free unfairly imprisoned arena dragons. But once freed into the wild, their gratitude takes an unexpected turn.
42. A traveling merchant in a magic dragonscale cloak arrives in a suspicious village. But they soon learn tales of town’s missing children and rumors of sightings downriver in a dark forest are somehow connected to their garment’s first owner.
43. The wizards of two rival schools create a joint program for young apprentices to interview and document stories from aged dragons regarding their roles in historic events over the centuries.
44. A battle weary dragon rider crashes to earth after a fierce midair clash. Their opponent proceeds to deliver a fatal blow, only to discover the rider’s helmet hides their true love—an old childhood friend.
45. A dragon conservationist helps rescue the eggs of the very rare viceroy dragons after also discovering their forest habitat is being targeted by sinister magical profiteers for destruction.
46. The Book of Years dictates all dragon magic eventually flows back into the lifeblood gems of the ancient high wyrms. Now those gems are going dark, and a prophecized fiery apocalypse is at hand unless the injured high wyrms and their caretaker wizards can be saved in time.
47. An expedition treasure hunter wizard awakens an undead dragon while raiding its cursed burial mound. She manages to escape but soon realizes the furious undead beast is bent on tracking her back to her bustling desert hometown for revenge.
48. After centuries imprisoned in an obsidian orb, a vengeful dragon warlock finally manages to use the blood of his captor wizard to set himself free. But the modern world he emerges into is not the one he expects, as magic itself has evolved beyond his grasp.
49. An archaeology wizard makes a revolutionary find—ancient rune texts revealing dragons once took the form of mortal humans to guard, guide, and nurture developing civilizations while studying rival deities, their cults, and the nature of belief itself.
50. The final dragon roost lies inside an active volcano. As eruptions grow more destructive, a worried wizard sky captain leads an airship expedition seeking the source in hopes of calming it. But a dark ancient force and its zealous fire cult stand in their way.

So get those quills scribbling and let your imagination soar because these magical writing prompts are the perfect launchpad for fantasy adventures! Whether crafting tales of unlikely wizard-dragon bonds, daring expeditions to frozen ruins, or comical miniature pet mishaps, endless mystical stories await. Where might these prompts transport you? I hope they’ll enchant minds, unlock creativity, and conjure up fantastical new tales. Your own epic saga could be but a prompt away! May your writing wander far and the fantasy ideas flow freely. Now get questing with these wizardly, dragony story seeds! The magical page awaits your next words. We have many other writing prompts on our site you may enjoy.