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The fact that six mercenaries and a weasel have stowed away on the highest-security vessel in the Dynasty’s fleet is, technically, a serious problem that bodes poorly for the rest of their journey. But Essek is delighted. He’d been dreading a long and tense voyage to Mutalos, without any company except for a skeleton crew comprised mostly of military personnel, the awkward spare scourger, and his—
It feels strange, to think of Becke as his wife. Even calling her his enemy feels too intimate.
(In which Essek agrees to a political marriage to ensure intergalactic peace and keep himself alive, only to discover that his wife has married him for exactly the opposite reason.)
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Before Days End by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Dec 2025
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University is hard enough as it is without having to change campus, dorms, course and country to boot.
When a new student pops up on campus grounds, questions and curious eyes start to trail. As well as rumours.
Will everyone be the same by the end of the year?Updates come every Wednesday <3
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It's a nice day. They can take their time. Essek will be asleep for a while yet.
[In which the Mighty Nein get ready for a baby shower.]
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The Line That’s Still Holding You Spellbound by TheAverageStandard
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
08 Dec 2025
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Newly appointed head archivist Essek Thelyss spends his time in the basement of the Zadash division Cobalt Soul Institute, recording statements of “supernatural” and “unexplained” happenings.
Work is boring, and his coworkers are mildly insane. Not for long though! Things will absolutely get worse.
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It’s not necessary to know anything about The Magnus Archives to read, though it contains major spoilers for The Magnus Archives.
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Essek is in love with Caleb and has no idea how to handle this new experience. There is so much he does not know, like how to approach any possible future physical relationship, he only knows sex as a useful but unenjoyable tool. He is sure he will disappoint. He gets sound advice and support and tries not to assume and not to rush.
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Two Hearts, Born to Run by seeingreverse
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
08 Dec 2025
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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 in the future. What he finds is... not what he expected.)
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‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’‘I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’—"The Death of a Hired Man," Robert Frost
When running stops working, the Blooming Grove is where Caleb runs to.
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- Part 2 of waystations
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volatile assets by quanshi (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
08 Dec 2025
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The thing is, Essek thinks distantly as he unbuckles his pants, is that he has no one to tell him this is a bad idea.
Essek gets to know Astrid and Eadwulf.
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Beginning is Easy, Persisting is an Art by TromboneTaxiDriver
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
08 Dec 2025
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In which the rescue of a cat from the Ermendrud family home changes the course of history. But perhaps not as much as one would expect.
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When a curious band of mercenaries called The Mighty Nein appear in the center of the brewing conflict between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty, Archmage of Civil Influence Trent Ikithon assigns his most prized pupil the task of infiltrating their ranks to gain insight into their moves and motives. To win the group's trust, Bren Aldric Ermendrud adopts the identity of Caleb Widogast, an ex-scourger on the run from his former master. -
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Graduation from Master Trent Ikithon's training program went.. with a slight hitch. One of his three star pupils has a bad time of the final exam.. but things go a little differently this time. This is a different spin on the wizard we know as Caleb Widogast's experience from that point.. because this time he's NOT alone.
One moment, one singular choice could change the fate of Exandria..
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- Part 1 of The World Will Burn
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Caleb moves closer into his space and holds his shivering arms tightly, and rubs some warmth into his shoulders. “Essek, you can feel it, can’t you?”
Caleb noticed it as he left the cottage, once he consciously felt for the sensation. Or rather, a lack thereof. Typically, magic rushes around him like the wind itself, or an ambient scent, or music. It appeals to a different and entirely unnamable sense though, of course. He can feel it, touch it, and manipulate it. It is so constant that it becomes subconscious and beyond notice.
“You can feel it, Essek. It is gone.”Peace is a precious thing, and a fragile thing too. When the unexpected finally strikes Essek's delicate new life, he and Caleb are left adrift and alone and very, very, vulnerable. What are two wizards without magic to do?
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“The two of you should get married,” he repeats,
and draws a line with his fingers to connect Essek and Caleb together.
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- Part 12 of altogether infinite, possibilities
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Our (Un)faced Demons by Anonymous for InsomniWillow
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
06 Dec 2025
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Jester went to try to keep her splatter-prone wizards alive.
She hadn't expected to be working hard to keep them sane, too.
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Essek has spent the past year in Nicodranas, building a new life in the absence of his lover after asking for a break. Despite the passage of time, he still lacks certainty about the best way to move forward. So how is he supposed to make a decision upon the man's unexpected return?
Or a story about coming together and facing change.
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- Part 1 of Grow Apart to Grow Together
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I Found You Between the Pages of My Life by MissWekfild
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
05 Dec 2025
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When a sealed box appears in Essek of den Thelyss’ office, containing a script. the acclaimed director and producer of Moonlight Productions finds a new story to tell.
In search of authenticity, he turns to Dr. Caleb Widogast, a newly appointed professor of modern history whose research focuses on systems of power and the quiet machinery of abuse. Their collaboration begins as an intellectual exercise, two men dissecting truth from illusion, but soon becomes an unraveling.
Between drafts and late night conversations, Essek begins to see what his films have always avoided: himself.
And Caleb, patient but scarred in his own way, must decide how close one can stand to another’s truth without becoming part of the fiction.A slow burning story of connection, guilt, and the fragile beauty of trust and the fragile alchemy of healing.
The difficult parts are summarized in the summary and can be skipped.
Please take care of yourself and skip this section if you are unsure whether it is right for you.
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The Peacock’s Palace, one of the most vibrant nightclubs in Nicodranas, home to the star peacock himself Mollymauk Tealeaf and owned by one Essek Thelyss. They are happy in their loving relationship and rich home atop the Palace, but maybe they’d like to try something new? Maybe that handsome Zemnian might want to join them for a night? Maybe more?
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Be A Good Boy For Me? by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Dec 2025
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Caleb confides in his friend that he's had...curiosities into his line of work.
Mollymauk is more than happy to accommodate and show Caleb the ropes.
Only figuratively (unless he strikes it lucky)
But with the complexities of online sex work, will Caleb be up for the task?Updates come every Friday ;)
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Caleb should go back inside.
Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time.
When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can just feel the tiny rise and fall of its ribcage.
Damnit.
(It's a Shadowgast modern-with-magic vampire!AU)
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He thinks maybe it should make him more frightened, that he should worry about the liabilities he has allowed these people to become. It does nothing to temper the joy of being trusted, of being someone worthy of friend. It does nothing to diminish the memory of Caleb’s spellbook in his lap this morning, its owner sound asleep before him; the sweet press of concern behind Jester’s words in his mind the night before as she reached out with sending.
A rabbit walks into a snare. The snare closes around its throat, killing it. What is responsible for its death, the stupidity of the rabbit or the viciousness of the snare’s purpose?
The Shadowhand of the Bright Queen walks into the T-Dock, he thinks, and feels sick.Two months after surviving the ruin of Aeor, Caleb and Essek return to tie up loose ends.
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Before they became legends, the future Mighty Nein were nothing more than a scattered collection of misfits wandering the tense continent of Wildemount. Political conflict simmered beneath the surface, and whispers of stolen arcane relics began stirring unrest throughout the Dwendalian Empire.
Drawn together by coincidence, trouble, and a series of strange magical disturbances, a handful of unlikely adventurers find themselves entangled in a conspiracy reaching far beyond the small towns they hoped to hide in. As ancient powers shift and dangerous forces move in secret, these outsiders must confront their own pasts while uncovering a mystery tied to the fate of the entire continent.
What begins as a simple investigation spirals into a journey that will challenge their beliefs, test their loyalties, and forge a bond capable of reshaping history—long before any of them realize just how important they will become.