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Caleb casts a teleportation spell meant to send the Mighty Nein back to Aeor. Instead of Aeor, they end up back in the Blooming Grove, nearly one year ago: right around when the Iron Shepherds kidnapped members of the Mighty Nein.
Or: The Mighty Nein (accidentally) travel back in time and save Molly while having to deal with their past selves.
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If You Really Want the Truth
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Caleb casts a teleportation spell meant to send the Mighty Nein back to Aeor. Instead of Aeor, they end up back in the Blooming Grove, nearly one year ago: right around when the Iron Shepherds kidnapped members of the Mighty Nein.Or: The Mighty Nein (accidentally) travel back in time and save Molly while having to deal with their past selves.
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(i'll track down the words if you) dig up the dead by SaltCore
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jul 2024
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Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.
They find him. They kill him.
This is the first wish you make.
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He is smiling at you, wide and delighted, like you have brought him every good thing.
Like you have brightened the room simply by existing in it.
“Caleb.”
He does not cross the room by magic, but a lesser man might have been fooled. Relax, when his arms circle you. Let him hold you. Relish the feeling of his ribs cycling against yours.
He is—
Gone.
Here.
Like a wish come true.
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On a bright, summer morning, Essek Thelyss wakes to a knock at his door and a letter in his mailbox. It reads:
“Dearest Essek,
Caleb and I have been considering your comment from the other day, when you told us you’d like to spend more time alone together. While the words you spoke were just that, your tone seemed to allude to something more. We are intrigued and wish to clarify just what you meant by that sentiment." -
Good Arms vs Bad Arms/Nothing Like You by ImmeasurableDepths
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Apr 2023
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After stopping the calamitous consequences of the Apogee Solstice, Bells Hells and their allies gather in Widogast's Nein-Sided Nascent Tower to regroup and deal with the aftermath. Imogen finds herself consumed by jealousy as Laudna chooses to spend time with Imogen's least favourite ally.
Title is taken from two different songs, both by Frightened Rabbit <3
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Caleb and Beau find themselves back in time after the events of the Apogee Solstice at the Malleus Key. Everyone is confused. Beau and Caleb are too old for this.
Early days Mighty Nein meets Beau and Caleb post campaign.
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“I’ve always been lacking in the academic politics department,” Caleb says, “but you seem quite versed in that realm. It will be good to have you on my side.”
Essek Thelyss is a postdoctoral fellow at Rosohna University dealing with his poor health and a recent data breech which sent the physics department reeling. When first year PhD student Caleb Widogast moves in across the street, Essek has to contend not only with Caleb's troubled past but with actions he himself has taken which threaten to destroy a growing bond.
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Essek is lucky to be alive.
It can be hard to believe, with the scars he now bears. The Mighty Nein turned on him at the close of the war, and he barely escaped with his life. He defied fate to be here.
At least, that is what Ludinus Da'leth told him, when he offered Essek shelter in exchange for his particular expertise. Essek's own recollection is—
Fraught.
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Touching Sentiments (Chronological) by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
29 Aug 2025
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The Mighty Nein are very comfortable with one another, boundaries established and reconfigured and settled well before Essek finally joins them.
Casual touch is a given with them; proximity was a necessity for safety in their early days. This, however, stands in stark contrast with Essek’s many decades. Walls, barriers, layers, space. Separation kept Essek safe.
It’s not that he hates touch, no. It had simply grown unbearable after so long without. Unexpected or held for too long, it burned.
And then they won him over, slowly, over time, as they are wont to do. Rather, he is one of them now.
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In the months after, in the precious hours they take for themselves, it's a secret Essek didn't even mean to keep that scares Caleb most.
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Life as a fugitive is not kind, but Essek thought he had acclimated. And in many ways, he has. Still, there is only so much acclimating one can do once the assassins find you.
Luckily, there is a favor to be repaid, and Caleb is happy to settle this debt in kind.
(Direct sequel to bow shock.)
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Adventuring might be behind Caleb, but danger is not.
Late in the night, someone comes to settle a score with him on behalf of their mutual teacher. They did not account for Caleb playing host to someone with very strong opinions about that, and the magic to back them up.
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Being bait, to borrow a turn of phrase from Beau, fucking blows.
Whumptober 2021 inspired fic for the following prompt:
No. 3 - STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES BUT… (insults // “Who did this to you?”)Series
- Part 3 of Whumptober 2021
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“Who did that to you?” Essek asks, voice nearly toneless. He tilts his own head, lifting up his left side, as if Caleb could possibly have missed his meaning.
Caleb swallows. Nods towards the one who’d done it.
“Ah, I see. A moment.” Then Essek looks away. Speaks again, in Undercommon, his words smooth and devoid of any emotion, with that knife slash of a smile still on his lips.
Then he lifts his hands, the absence of light appearing at his fingertips, and all hells break loose.
Essek hadn’t come alone after all—his new spell supersedes the Invisibility he had been holding over, well, most of the Nein. Yasha charges forward with a roar, Beau moving to flank, and Jester and Fjord explode in a fury of divine wrath. (Caleb, for his part, reaches for that campfire, stokes it into an explosion, drawing attention at those crucial first moments.)
But for all that, Caleb can’t take his eyes off Essek. He draws the fundamental forces of the universe like a harpist, like an archer, and he unmakes the man who’d struck Caleb before anyone else can reach him, unwinds him atom from atom, all while the smile never fades, while the cold never falters.
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Mages can be utter bastards. Essek would know, being something of a bastard himself. But leaving a trap that can splinter a person's intellect, leaving them frightened and utterly helpless, one that would last for centuries, just waiting for an unlucky passerby? That's a particularly Aeoran kind of awful.
Whumptober 2021 inspired fic for the following prompt:
No. 7 - MY SPIDEY-SENSE IS TINGLING (helplessness)Series
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"Jester, my dear, could you perhaps resurrect someone who is quite dead? I have a bone to pick, as you say, then a very upsetting murder to commit."
"How dead? And how upsetting?" Jester asks, a little distractedly.
"Almost a millennium, likely, and deeply, I'm afraid."
Caleb barks a laugh and finally looks at Essek. That sharpness, the bright intelligence Essek prizes and cherishes is back.
"No, no, my friend, I call dibs."
Essek huffs a watery chuckle and makes a sweeping, deferential gesture.
"Anything you like."
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but as the days grow shorter, they may have their say by SaltCore
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Mar 2024
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Caleb is now an old man, and Essek is still just Essek. Caleb tries to let him go, to spare him the trials and travails of loving an old man.
Unfortunately for Caleb, Essek is still Essek and will have none of it.
This results in a stalemate, that, currently, Beau (and every other observer) is winning.
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Crying again
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Prompts for Febuwhump 2023 in one Corresponding story
The good thing is that they have found their captive friends, and they had a plan for an ambush. Nothing could go too wrong, right?
What Beau didn't expect was to find her friends quite like this
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“I know we haven’t really talked about it— lately…” Caleb said slowly, trying to work his mouth around the idea his brain hadn’t quite processed. “But… a family. Do you want one?”
Caleb heard the knife pause on the cutting board. He would have bet his most prized tome that Molly was twirling the blade nervously in his fingers.
“A family can be two men, five cats, and a dozen friends wandering in and out,” Molly said carefully.
“And if it should include children?”
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Essek tries to surprise Caleb by showing up wearing his cloak, mantle, and very little else, and is horrified to realize that Caleb has arranged a surprise of his own.
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Mollymauk doesn't know how he survived nor does he know why Caleb is currently a little kid or who the other kid is; but, he does know that he would do anything to get the rest of his family back. Including walking the spaces between the stars.
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Caleb, Mollymauk, and the long road to intimacy.
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The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.
Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.
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