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In another life, Caleb Widogast never broke. He simply cracked, warped but not destroyed. He learned to be quiet, useful, loved, in a way that hurts the least. He’s got his life figured out, and he’s just fine with how it’s going.
Then a band of mercenaries called the Mighty Mess come looking for help with a cursed necklace. They need the help of the librarian who knows entirely too much about magic.
They probably should have stayed cursed.
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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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“You are an odd duck Beauregard.”
“No shit,” she takes another drink.
“You talk about how strange and mysterious I am,” Caleb continues, “But you are worse than any of us I think.”
“The fuck do you mean man?” She glares at him. She’s too buzzed to be patient enough for him to get to his point.
“Lionett.”
She freezes.
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It takes Beau 74 episodes to mention her last name, Caleb asks her about it
(Now with bonus surprise sequel chapter!)
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Caleb was a sentimental idiot to stay with the Nein as long as he has, and it's time for him to go—it's the only way to keep them (and himself) safe from those forever chasing him. He needs to vanish into being nothing once more.
But Trent Ikithon is a determined figure, and without the Nein at his back, Caleb is no match.
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- Part 6 of 2025 Event Fics
- Part 125 of Q's Rarest Rarepairs
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A Shameless Gravity by my_spiritual_weapon_is_a_lollipop
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Feb 2025
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“Your target is Essek Thelyss - Shadowhand to the Bright Queen. A noble of the Dynasty who is well trusted and, perhaps more importantly, in the forefront of the study of the dynasty’s carefully guarded magics, though they do not formally recognize him as such. As you know, the Dynasty poses a substantial threat to all who live in the Empire. They seek to take our lands and impose their cult they claim as religion upon our people. The best way we can avoid this is to gain better access to their magics, understand them, learn how they function so that they no longer hold the upper hand in battles. We have determined that Essek Thelyss is the best positioned to support this goal.” Trent’s scheming smile spread upward expectantly. “So Bren, my protege, I turn to you. Can you achieve this for your country?”
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Faith and the Unbecoming of Man by SadGayWizards (BeingBumbleBree)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), call of the netherdeep
09 Jan 2025
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"For the fourth time this week, Essek Thelyss, former Shadowhand of the Kryn Dynasty and current wanted criminal, wakes to the feeling of arachnidian legs across his back, neck, and face..." Plagued by nightmares and compulsions, Essek fears he is losing his mind. He leaves little more than a cryptic note in his wake. "In a flash of light unseen by all but the white cat at the door, Essek vanishes from Caleb Widogast’s life."
Across the continent, five heroes are settling back into normalcy after barely escaping the sunken ruins below Ank’harel. Though they were successful in talking down the twisted monster within, the cost was great. While navigating political chaos, the Apothean heroes are approached by an old ally. Their friend begs the party to find his fugitive brother before dynasty assassins do. If they can convince Essek to turn himself into the government that calls him traitor, perhaps his life will be spared.
Struggling with cult activity, inner demons, past trauma, and conflicting points of view, the group follows the only breadcrumbs left behind, finding on each step of their journey that things are infinitely more complicated than they appear. -
Unafraid of the storms that come and pass Wishing for a life a kite could never have by MochaTea147
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Oct 2024
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Caleb recruits Marisol Delaney due to thinking she’ll be good company while sorting out the whole Volstrucker problem. Marisol won’t admit it but she also loves Caleb but things may get deeper into both of their backstories when a hidden truth comes to light.
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Bren comes home from his trip to the Kryn Dynasty locked, collared, and marked with the crest of Den Thelyss. As Essek intended, Astrid and Wulf notice, and make Bren's life hell for it. But, as they realize, it could be a useful situation, if handled correctly.
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- Part 4 of No Misery Ever So Beautiful
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Echoes of what could have been by siren_of_the_ocean
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jan 2024
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- Part 16 of critical role stories
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oh, sinners come down (i must be good for something) by soda_poppers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Nov 2023
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Caleb’s past catches up with him after the Victory Pit Battle. Panicked, he tells the rest of the Nein about his sins.
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- Part 1 of coming are the nein
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Caleb answers Trent's questions.
Campaign 2 Episode 128 (Cat and Mouse) :Caleb's self-sacrificing proposal to give himself to Trent in exchange for the Nein's safety.
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The deal goes sour. The Cerberus Assembly has deemed working with Essek not worth the risk, choosing to instead trap his consciousness in one of his own stolen Beacons
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Ikithon looks him over. “You’re shivering, Bren. Did you find it cold?”
He swallows. “No, Master Ikithon. I slept perfectly well.”
“Hm.” The Master considers him for a moment before moving on.
With the shock of nearly being caught in the act fading, the pulsating pressure returns with a vengeance. He adjusts himself through his trousers as discreetly as he can.
Just a minute more. Ikithon would dismiss them, and he'd be fine.
“We will continue your training early today.”
Fuck.
Ikithon tests his students' concentration.
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It always happened like this: Caleb would find himself overwhelmed and then his fingers would be feeling at his eyelids, plucking any growing hairs he found.
It was weak. It was inexplicable, now that Trent had been taken care of and Lucien was gone and everything was better in the world. It was a secret Caleb could not share with his friends. He could not endure their confusion or their pity or their revulsion.
Caleb was definitely okay. He had to be. He could not be weak.
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Caleb had one desire 'no more children on the pyre'. But he's learning that that wish is even more complicated than removing the people who created the pyre, it's about teaching the children they don't deserve to be put on the pyre in the first place.
based on "we are not alone in the dark with our demons" by CanaryCry. Please read that first because otherwise, this won't make sense.
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something happens and i'm head over heels by MarsBar2019
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Mar 2022
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Caleb loses a bet with Veth that results in him being required to wear ugly Winter's Crest sweaters, a different one every day, for the month before the festival. Fortunately, there's a used clothing store in Rexxentrum that just happens to be owned by everyone's favorite leetle blue tiefling.
E. rating kicks in at chapter 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21 if that's what you're here for (or if you want to avoid it).
1/7: This is turning into a Jester Lavorre character study wrapped in WJ fluff and smut and I'm not mad about it.
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We're Ghosts, Bound to Splintered Pyrography by Grimalkin, HappiKatt
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Feb 2022
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Before The Mighty Nein, there was The Blumenthal Drei.
Caleb had hoped the two would never collide, but the world was never that kind. Not to Him, not to Eodwulf, not to Astrid, and especially not to the Mighty Nein.
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..."Trent,” Eodwulf growled through his teeth “Let’s fucking kill him. Make-- Make him regret ever being fucking born, for… for everything he did to us. Everything. Pay him back for everything he took from us.”... -
reaching the starlight by CherryMilkshake, eldritchmochi
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Dec 2021
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[the_shadowhand]
I would be willing to help you come up with ideas, if you want, so long as you’re willing to teach me your ways with dirty talk.
It’s… hard for me, I suppose. I never know what to say, let alone with the presence you have.[catsire]
Why Herr Shadowhand, are you flirting?[the_shadowhand]
Not intentionally. More… admiring a skill you have that I lack.Caleb is not disappointed. He’s not disappointed when they meet and The Shadowhand has the same casual fake flirty tone as his text. He’s not disappointed when they end up filming together, his feelings most definitely not returned. Caleb can live with the heat of his fixation on the other man as they, somehow, become friends beyond their work. He can handle himself just fine.
It doesn’t matter that The Shadowhand is gorgeous and brilliant besides. He likes Caleb well enough and there could be hope, if Caleb wasn’t such a fucking mess. They can be friends, and coworkers of a strange sort. It’s fine.
It’s fine.
Until it’s not.
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- Part 1 of fighting the forces of gravity
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More than hearts are on the line in Aeor, as Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss search for answers, and discover that there's more to the ruined city than they ever knew.. and more to themselves, as well. The arrival of Verin further complicates things, but the chaos has only just gotten started with Exandria once more in peril, and without the Mighty Nein together to stop it. Can two broken wizards and some unlikely allies do the trick?
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- Part 1 of Ruins and Romance
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the dark midnight sky, black with pitch and charcoal by Ford_Ye_Fiji
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Oct 2021
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So far, the changes made by Nott and Caleb's earlier alliance in the sanatorium have been fairly minimal, the two of them treading the same paths that their canon counterparts have walked.
Until now.
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