forum Urban Fantasy discussion/ideas/junk

Started February 01, 2018 by Bless_You

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I do love making street fantasy! How about you?

Street witches that spray paint sigils on buildings to protect them or repair them, with tattoos of spells on their inner thighs, even scribbles in messy and smeared ink of spells they forgot. Potions in water bottles and charms on chokers and t-shirts. Crystals on rings they bought at the thrift market.

Urban elves that jump from rooftop to rooftop, skateboards that are decorated like nature, always meeting up in the park by the library downtown. They always hang out with the dwarves in the next section of the city that are always too serious and with rollerskates on all the time.

Gangs of mixed species, an angel leading a gang of different demons that often have quarrels with that gang up the street containing animal morphs. Even gangs of wizards trying to annoy that one street witch that does spells on the corner nearby that gas station.

What are your ideas of this genre combination?

yessssssss!! i'm just delving into urban fantasy but i love all of this!!

in my urban fantasy story i have fairies and pixies that act as messengers between the levels of the city, but pixies will only work if they get paid in gold. dwarves burrow beneath the city and are pickpockets. ogres get hired as bodyguards. elves are kinda creepy and are the only ones who can use the transportation pods. there is a rare species of people with wings who have magical abilities and people are scared of them because they're so rare.

i'm still working on adding more races but i love it!

Yo, imma jump on this bandwagon by mentioning Infamous 2. In that game, the main character has the ability to mess with electricity, concrete, neon, and smoke, so an urban fantasy with that kind of magic can be super interesting!

Zipping through power lines like a runaway bolt of lightning.

People get angry and have smoke come out of their ears.

Clubs with people at each corner providing a light show every hour on the hour.

Late-risers groggily heading off to work by stepping off of their apartment stairs and planting themselves into the ground and tunneling under the city (but not through the sewers) only to pop up in front of their workplace in a puff of dust.

So many ideas! So little time!

I got tons of ideas.

You exit your apartment building, walking out the front door, to see a sorcerer/magician has set up shop outside on the sidewalk, using the fold out table and chairs. A little of alchemical ingredients, anything from gold to powdered nightshade, a journal full of symbols and incantations for enchantment, charms, potions, salves, all that.

You remember back at school, the vampire clique that would chill and study in the multipurpose room, the pack of therian stoners that would find cuts to dip off to. Your teacher was a bakeneko.

Your two best friends are an elf and a dwarf, veterans who served tours in the military, their general waa the Angel of Death.
You call a taxi, and drive past a few shady looking demons.

Your godson is a demi-dragon.

You go to the bar, an orc, an inugami, and an Asura sir at the counters, quarreling.

The orcs have the Southern District of Heavenseed City, it's all tagged train cars and alleys, trashcan fires, torn up couches on sidewalks and rundown warehouses.

The dwarves have the Lower District, with it's top notch subway system, vast mines, and echoing halls.

To the North, the elves have their District, it's vast parks, and a prominent University on display.

The Crescent Strip District goes to the vampires and therians, full of parties and with a dazzling night life.

The Upper District goes to the angels, it isn't paradise, but it's close.

The Eastern District to the Demons, crime-riddled, shady, borderline dystopian.

The West District is home to the spirits of the sky, sea, trees and earth, brimming with nature.

The Middle District is the Industrial hub, where species of all kinds flock.

Humans are scattered throughout these Districts, nomadic as they are.