light upon light
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Light, but this is embarrassing. He is a heretic, he is a traitor and a Beacon-thief, he was once the fucking Shadowhand of the Bright Queen, and now here he is, in a small House of Guidance in the Light-damned City of Beasts, crying. The closest thing to a show of faith he’s managed in decades. If only his Umavi could see him now.
or: Essek Thelyss takes an ill-advised trip into the Dynasty, and introspects.
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- Part 1 of light upon light
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into gravity, into quartz by SongOfWizardry
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
28 Jun 2026
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Before everything else – before his brother, before the pain, before strings of tense conversations with his Umavi, before the Tomes and the Bastion and the books and the titles – was the Light, and the magic.
Essek remembers being young, so young. He remembers his Umavi's fingers on his chin, lifting his head up, so he could lay eyes on a Beacon for the first time. He remembers the way the Dunamis in the room tasted on his tongue; the impossibility of looking away; the feeling of strings in his soul, being plucked at their natural frequency for the first time, resonating.
In the quiet hours of the morning, he can admit that it is unsurprising that for years, he called that feeling faith.
or: Essek Thelyss, and his lifelong relationship with magic, dunamancy, and gravity.
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- Part 2 of light upon light