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The Mighty Nein are good people, so the legends say, but legends have a tendency to soften the edges of the truth. Stories about people nursing monsters within their souls have their audience, but not in bedtime stories or tales shared on roadside camps between strangers traveling the world and meeting in passing. Cutting out the pain and misery isn’t done to disrespect those who bear it- it’s just inevitable that things get lost along the way.
Villains who find themselves face to face with the Mighty Nein often expect noble, traditional heroes who would never hurt someone who fled or asked for mercy. Perhaps on some days that would even be true.
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Pt 1. Hemocraft: Molly tempts Caleb with the idea of combining sex and magic, which leads to a truly spectacular night for both of them.
Pt 2. What Does it Mean?: As they continue to map each other out, Caleb starts to realize he has feelings and pushes Molly away. Molly respects his decision to end things, but when he figures out why, he decides that Caleb needs to learn that he deserves to be loved.
Pt 3. Tethered: Caduceus Clay accompanies his new companions back to the gravesite of their fallen friend, and with a lot of magic and love, Molly lives again. It takes some adjustment and a bit of practice, but Molly and Caleb settle into their new bond.
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Caleb needed to fidget. Molly knew this. It was impossible not to notice, as Caleb was a heavy thinker and seemed to need something to do with his hands while he did it. It was fine when he was at a desk scribbling notes down or working on sigils and equations, but when he was simply reading or deep in thought his hands wandered for lack of anything to occupy them.
This proves to be Molly's downfall.
(tl;dr, Caleb unthinkingly grabs Molly's tail to fidget with and it gets very sexy from there.)
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An Account of the Research Expedition into the Ruins of the Floating City of Aeor Undertaken by Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast by elisekc
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
25 Mar 2026
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But, forgive me, I have gone off on a tangent: this account is for retelling the events of our expedition, not for musing upon personal matters. It will not happen again.
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Essek attempts to keep a professional journal of the progress made on his and Caleb's Aeor field trip, but as the days go by, he finds himself writing a lot more about his colleague (and his feelings for said colleague) than their work.
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Based on the headcanon that tieflings need extra physical stimulation sometimes to quell their Hellish biology's needs. Tieflings like physical contact a lot and because of their biology are resistant to some types of pain or damage. Their skin is tougher than human skin and tieflings often enjoy intense sensations. As children, this often means extra time wrestling with siblings or getting into sports. As adults, they lean towards acts of daring and danger, taking to the performing arts or the adventuring lifestyle.
Caleb finds that Mollymauk's needs for a kind of mutual, affectionate violence match his own. They agree to let off steam together every now and then.
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take a sad song, and make it better by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
18 Mar 2026
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Now, his friend was in pain. True, awful pain. And the worst thing in the entire world was that he could do absolutely nothing about it.
There was no monster to fight. No evil enemy to cut down. No arcane force that he could muster to defend her.
Now, her only protectors were behind a closed set of double doors, holding her tightly and encouraging her to push.-
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"It’s a beautiful day at the Soltryce Academy—the sky is vibrant and the trees rustle with the gentlest of winds as Caleb begins his impromptu Transmutation lecture outside. From the building on the edge of the grounds he hears a muffled bell tolling for fifth period. Somewhere in the distance, a student begins to whistle.
At that moment, Caleb feels at peace.
At that moment, a Purple Worm bursts forth from the soil directly in front of him, and all of his plans for a pleasant afternoon are promptly dashed."
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Caleb and Essek have finally settled down - more or less. While the beloved and somewhat eccentric Professor Widogast is busy inciting small student-scale riots and teaching tiny wizards morals, Essek spends his days lounging around the house, drinking wine and experimenting with the exotic concept of 'cooking his own meals'. They are pretty sure life is great - until two pre-teen assassins crash-land into the middle of the Soltryce Academy and demand the former Shadowhand be surrendered to their custody. What are the two internationally in/famous mages to do? The answer will shock absolutely no one.- Language:
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There’s a shift in the shadows so subtle that only those mindful of it would notice.
He notices.
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The Line That’s Still Holding You Spellbound by TheAverageStandard
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
30 Mar 2026
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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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- Part 1 of Spellbound
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Essek Thelyss comes to Soltryce to deliver guest lectures and, on the side, cultivate the brand new Archmage of Domestic Protections. He’s hoping that Caleb Widogast will oblige him by picking up his predecessor’s interest in conspiring to steal Luxon beacons, after so rudely murdering Da’leth mere weeks before the culmination of their schemes.
Essek is prepared for espionage. He is not prepared to find a love that will change the course of his life.
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Bren was confident that he was the predator and the Shadowhand was his prey.
But he would be wrong.
Essek week day 2: venom / hiding.
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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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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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Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first?
(Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)
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- Part 1 of till human voices wake us
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On the Myriad Uses of Polymorph as a Method of First Aid by CatgirlTheCrazy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Jan 2022
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Essek learns first hand one of the Mighty Nein's use cases for Polymorph: keeping the mortally wounded alive.
He learns this when he unexpectedly finds himself a 40-foot long lizard with tiny arms and a brain the size of a walnut.
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Caleb feels his hair falling heavily over one shoulder, loose at the back. He reaches up, manacle clanking, and feels that Essek has woven braids into his hair on one side, some large and chunky, some thin and delicate. His eyebrows climb and he looks at the drow who seems almost to… blush? “Apologies – you were in pain and I… I do not deal well with being helpless. You can take them out, I know they are not an Empire style.”
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