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After the Mighty Nein are done adventuring, they get ready to move onto their lives. However, when a note arrives from a stranger explaining that they are willing to trade the life of Essek in exchange for research stolen from them by the Cobalt Soul, the group needs to act.
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Originally inspired by "That Carnivorous Dark" by Cers, I started writing this around the time C3 was started and then abandoned it and I've suddenly been feeling feral and decided to approach it again. Deals with the quest in EGTW by the same name
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27 Jun 2026
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“Beauregard – you said she is outside?” Essek half-turns in the direction of the front door. “Should we invite her in?”
It feels like there is something stuck in his throat. “In a moment. She is, ah – giving us some space.”
Essek turns back to stare at him. Repeats quietly, dangerously, “Space.”
Caleb forces himself to swallow. “Yes.”
Essek’s attention is a palpable thing now, sharp like a knife’s edge against his cheek. “Explain.”
One moment makes all the difference during the battle at Blumenthal. In the aftermath, the Nein grapple with what comes next.
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25 Jun 2026
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just listen to the rhythm of my heart by KmacKatie (kmackatie) for Loekazz
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Aug 2021
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“What if I didn’t care.” The words surprise Essek for how true they actually are. He wouldn’t care if the Nein saw them kissing, they all knew they did anyway. What difference did it make if they had some actual evidence of it?
Caleb’s eyes darkened.
“Essek.”
“What if I decided that I don’t care, that all I’ve been able to think about for the last hour is your hands and I’ve had to sit there and converse—” He breaks off, licking his lips as his mouth is dry. “I want you. I want you and it’s distracting, and you have utterly broken my ability to sit there and pretend that I am not thinking about anything but your hands and skin. What have you done to me.”
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In which Essek's concentration is tested, the wizards have feelings, and discover that maybe they should pay a slight bit more attention to their surroundings.
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01 Apr 2026
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like coloured indigo inscribed with my name by KmacKatie (kmackatie) for TheKnittingJedi
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
27 May 2021
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Essek discovers that Jester either texts in all capitals, or completely ignores them. There’s no inbetween. He also discovers that there are 238 notifications in the Mighty Nein group chat that he had recently been added to in much pomp and circumstance that he still didn’t really understand. A final discovery is that the celebration of birthdays is a sacred tradition for the Mighty Nein and one he is going to be pulled in on regardless of his opinion on the fact.
An exploration of tradition, culture, what is worth sacrificing in finding yourself and family.
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- Part 1 of like coloured indigo
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01 Apr 2026
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Caleb Widogast wakes up from the first good night of sleep in far too long.
It takes him a moment to realise it's because he's not in his bed.
Is it the better mattress (lump-free and like a cloud), or the fact he drunkenly slept with Essek Thelyss, the colleague he's been secretly crushing on for the last six months?
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29 Mar 2026
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“I’m curious,” begins Kingsley after a minute or so of quiet, “Why do you think we’ve never had sex?”
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- Part 1 of Here in the Sunshine
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28 Mar 2026
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“You accused me of treating this like a game. I am sorry if I’ve led you to believe that it is only a game—though I won't deny that part of it is.” Bren gives a disarming smile. “My life is either games or murder, after all.”
“Or mail fraud,” Thelyss says dryly, not even a little disarmed.
“The mail fraud is a sort of game as well.”
A sigh. “Is this your way of telling me that you intend to continue playing?”
Bren smiles again, sharper. “If you would let me.”(In which Bren Aldric Ermendrud decides to seduce the Shadowhand and finds that the best way to convince someone to be vulnerable with you is to be vulnerable in turn.)
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- Part 1 of aBiA
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20 Mar 2026
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a sort of beacon where there used to be a dull roar by wordonawing
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Nov 2022
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Thirteen days into living with Caleb, Essek realises something he ought to have grasped much earlier: he should not be here.
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18 Mar 2026
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i put this heavy heart in you by Jothowrote
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
21 Sep 2025
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Caleb dies, and Essek barely survives it. Caleb comes back, and Essek barely survives that, either.
Lifespan angst shadowgast with consecuted Caleb.
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16 Mar 2026
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Two Hearts, Born to Run by seeingreverse
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Jan 2026
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In a shocking display, the unfamiliar drow began to speak Zemnian: “Entschuldigung, aber mein Zemnisisch ist nicht gut genug für dieses wichtige Gespräch." He took one step closer, in small increments as if approaching a wild animal. “Bren.”
“How-” His throat caught as his heart seized. Fuck. He’d already slipped up. Master Ikithon was going to be furious. “No, you have the wrong-”
“No need to lie.” The elf lifted his palm. His violet eyes caught Bren’s frantic gaze, and he visibly came to a decision. “Bren, you are suffering from acute psychic temporal displacement. I highly suspect it is due to a magical experiment we just performed.”
“Amnesia,” he translated. “You- You’re saying I have amnesia. Memory loss.”
(Bren Ermundrud wakes up twenty years later and finds a Kryn drow living in his home)
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16 Mar 2026
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“Can you tell me why you are so certain I would prefer your younger face?”
Caleb laughed again, still disbelieving. It seemed impossible that Essek could not understand this—Caleb felt like he was being asked to explain why burnt food tasted bad, or why putting one’s hand through a meat grinder would hurt. But Essek’s bemusement seemed entirely genuine. “Because it’s not as ugly? Because who likes fucking decrepit old men?”
“Clearly you have not heard what your students say about you when they think you cannot hear,” Essek said, with such dry frankness that it startled a laugh out of Caleb.
Caleb is getting old, and has a hard time believing that Essek can still be attracted to him. Essek decides to prove him wrong with a little tender loving bondage and body worship.
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15 Mar 2026
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The Secret Romance of Caleb Widogast by Cardinal_Daughter
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Dec 2021
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All Caleb wants is a peaceful, romantic weekend alone with his boyfriend.
The boyfriend none of his friends know about.
Naturally, nothing goes quite as planned.
Modern AU. Minimal Magic.
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13 Mar 2026
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“Caleb,” he whispers, voice breaking. “I have been caught. I am so sorry.” He swallows hard around the lump in his throat. The blade at his back is almost superfluous; he’s losing blood too fast to survive anyway, and he can feel his mind fogging over. “If you find my body, take me to the Blooming Grove. Please.” Essek closes his eyes. “I love you.”
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13 Mar 2026
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Rosohnans call it the rainy season: a time of humid days, heavy showers, and suffocating heat.
Caleb, who feels less and less like a stranger in the city he recently decided to call home, finds it's also a time for revelations.
(or: the porn-with-vibes fic)
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13 Mar 2026
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It’s not like Caleb hasn’t thought about it. He’s thought about it a little too much, if anything: what would happen in a situation in which the variables were only Essek, himself, some privacy, and their mutual willingness to explore each other. In that scenario, he wasn’t even asking for a bed.
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13 Mar 2026
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Essek has devoted his life to the axioms and metalogical functions of the field; he knows the complexities of internal calculations of weight, velocity and trajectory required to complete the spell with such finesse. Caleb Widogast just performed the somatics required to control eight vectors with the accuracy of submicroscopic deviation with one hand lazily wrapped around his cock.
He is utterly and completely screwed.
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12 Mar 2026
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Reports of my safety have been greatly exaggerated by ghosttopiary
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Dec 2024
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Something sharp and cold burrows between his shoulder blades and settles along his spine. The Shadowhand straightens his back, spits the blood from his mouth and steels himself for the second betrayal of the only friendship he’s ever had. The lie coats his tongue like quicksilver – it tastes a little like grief, and a little like victory.
»Hello Jester. My apologies, I could not contact you earlier. Sudden circumstances disallowed me the visit at last minute, but I am quite hale.«
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12 Mar 2026
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He wonders if he has a life beyond today. He wonders if he has time to erase the chalk plans in his home before abandoning it forever. He wonders if he was the one who looked into the mirror, or the one who stepped out of it.
— Essek and the Nein succeed in defeating the Somnovem, but their return to the Material Plane is a backwards trip out of Aeor. He is haunted by his memories, his guilt, the monsters around every corner, the threat of Trent Ikithon — and a shadow in his periphery that looks remarkably like himself. For Essek Thelyss, love and annihilation go hand-in-hand, until he learns otherwise.
[This fic contains illustrations.]
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06 Mar 2026
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After they explore Aeor together, Caleb asks Essek to move in. It takes Essek ... A while to figure out exactly what he means.
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26 Feb 2026
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Fundamental Forces Other Than Gravity by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jan 2021
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Essek's tone is academic, clinical, cold. “It would be pointless to deny that I am attracted to you. And I wouldn’t object if what happened last night would happen again. But I would be grateful if we could keep it between us.”
There’s a beat, then Caleb nods. “I’m fine with keeping it quiet and casual.”
Or how cold, ruthless and lonely Essek Thelyss (a brilliant student with a secret) accidentally makes some friends and falls in love: a Shadowgast college AU.
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24 Feb 2026