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Affection From Such a Previously Cold Individual by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
19 May 2021
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Essek’s hands would ache with cold. His heart, ice.
Caleb, hearthstone and sunlight.
Could he ask for that? Was that permissible? Did he deserve that?
And one question, entirely overlooked:
Would the heat burn him away entirely?
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AKA the wizards try to communicate when words won’t do version 2 electric boogaloo, only this time through the other lens and with more context
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- Part 2 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 33 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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“You know, this room never leaves, even when its occupant does. You’ve seen the others' doors when they are gone.”
Essek did not know, or, at least, had not actually considered that the concept would extend to himself.
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What If? for episode 103. Beau and Caleb don't find Caduceus. Vokodo can Dispel Magic. Waterbreathing is a magical effect.
"The change was subtle, but sudden, like a cloud drifting over the moon at second watch.
Fjord tried to pinpoint what had shifted within his magic. Something consistent was gone… but not? Weakened? No… Partially gone. Not something he was concentrating on, but something connected with his magic…
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my heart feels cold as ice, but it's anybody's guess by soda_poppers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Oct 2025
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Day Four - Hypothermia
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
- Part 13 of coming are the nein
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Nature and History by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
17 Dec 2022
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Caleb knows the spell only requires a touch.
This is obvious. A mere tap, enchanted, directed, and fate will restitch around whim.
This is as Essek has and has been taught, and yet, Caleb’s choice of placement….
Kiss to bridge. Pearl to brow. Fingertips between eyes. Foreheads, pressed together.
Essek has only just begun to learn.
Surety sputtering, he throws this question out in search of one better.
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AKA Essek gains insight on an important portion of Caleb’s recent past
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- Part 65 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 5 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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We Should Explore Other Things by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
05 Oct 2022
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Essek is far from the only one capable of serving as a knowledgeable sounding board, and he is well aware that Caleb has a clever, crafty mind all on his own. And still, beyond that, if he dares to consider, Essek could even share the spell itself from his very own spellbook.
This is not what Caleb has asked of him.
This is a puzzle.
Best Essek begin solving it.
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AKA the wizards attempt to reverse engineer a spell, and Essek confronts one of the moorbounders in the room
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- Part 59 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 32 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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the epic highs of solving a problem. the epic lows of realizing there was a second, secret, scarier one underneath
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In Which Essek and Yasha Confide by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
21 May 2021
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Yasha's famous “do you love her?” strikes again!
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- Part 4 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 30 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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LO; VE: I Think I Saw You by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
18 Nov 2023
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In which Caleb realizes a facet of Essek's intent
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- Part 4 of Letters Old; Valued Eternal: A TS Subseries
- Part 73 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 24 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Your Presence Gives Me Joy Alone by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
15 May 2021
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“Pretense and allusion are entertaining, and, in most cases by my experience, far more comfortable, but they only carry so far.”
Ah, perhaps his guess was off.
“What is it you’d like to say, my friend?”
“I... truthfully, do not know. I haven’t the words for it.”
“Then show me.”
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AKA the wizards try to communicate when words won’t do
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- Part 1 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 34 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Q's Rarest Rarepairs by meaninglessblah, meaninglessblah-art (meaninglessblah), withthekeyisking
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11 Oct 2025
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All of withthekeyisking's fics that have relationship tags with less than 50 AO3 entries!
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Caleb interrogates his would-be assassin.
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stories about possible wild magic surges in Aeor (aka, I use all the tropes and use them as character studies)
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Caleb strayed near the back, at Essek’s side again, though it was just because he was preparing spells for the day as they walked, unable to keep up with Veth and the others.
Eyes not leaving his spellbook, Caleb said quietly, “I have to apologize for last night. I’d never met another wizard at that age, but I shouldn’t have bothered you as much as I did. Thank you.”
“Of course. If I’d met myself at that age, I’d be quite impressed,” Essek said, feigning nonchalance. He could go right back to their normal conversational patterns, if that’s what Caleb wanted. It seemed like he just wanted to move on.
Caleb shook his head. “You were kind. You could have just woken Veth.”
“She needed sleep. I really didn’t mind,” Essek said. “You were a bright child.”
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‘My friends,’ Nott snarls at him from her perch, ‘here they are, fucker.’
‘You called?’ Beau spits and slams the butt of her staff into the guy’s collarbone.
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Caleb drops heavily onto the bed. It scrapes along the floor, its slats creaking under his weight as he lies back. The adrenaline has burned him out, leaving him heavy-limbed and groggy. He can only just make out Essek still standing in the center of the room, still as a statue. Caleb closes his eyes.
“I am very tired.”
The edge of the bed dips, then there is another body, barricading him between the wall and the rest of the room. Close, but not touching, familiar enough from long weeks under the ice. A presence Caleb has had plenty of practice relaxing into.
“Then sleep. I will keep you safe.”
Now that, Caleb thinks as his thoughts grow dim, is a promise I believe.
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written in the stars by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
30 Sep 2025
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The night sky looks the same on either side of the Ashkeeper Peaks; the only differences are cultural. After a meteor shower, Caleb and Essek take the time to share their versions of the constellations, Essek learns the real tragedy of humans not having darkvision, and Caleb’s focus is more earth-bound.
AKA- Essek is looking at the stars, but Caleb is looking at Essek.
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The missing piece of a triptych by SpectralScathath
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
11 Oct 2025
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Everyone in the Mighty Nein is a mystery to each other. None of them are honest, and they all have something to hide. But Wulf is just plain weird, even by their standards. What sort of mage hates magic?
(AU where Eadwulf joins the Mighty Nein, covers the first chunk of the campaign up to ep 29)
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The missing piece of a triptych by SpectralScathath
Published: 2025-10-11
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Everyone in the Mighty Nein is a mystery to each other. None of them are honest, and they all have something to hide. But Wulf is just plain weird, even by their standards. What sort of mage hates magic?
(AU where Eadwulf joins the Mighty Nein, covers the first chunk of the campaign up to ep 29)
(Approximate) Last Read: 2025/10/13
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high quality ink and paper by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
22 Sep 2025
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Caleb laughed as he kissed Essek’s cheek softly and fell back to continue his reading, “Don’t judge it till you try it.”
“If that is the case, then I will never be allowed to judge,” Essek absentmindedly flipped a page in his book.
“I’m not so sure. I can imagine you with dirt on your face and ink staining your hands.”
“Perish the thought,” was all Essek had to say on the matter before the two fell into a comfortable silence as they read.
The problem was that Caleb could not allow the thought to perish.Day 1- Ink
Caleb wastes some very fine ink, Essek tries to teach Caleb prestidigitation at the worst possible time, and both of them learn that sometimes messes are more fun together.
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[Podfic] To the Point of Invention by rakel by TheLordOfLaMancha
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
27 Jan 2024
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This is a Podfic of To the Point of Invention by rakel.
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Essek Thelyss is as much a consummate academic as he is a man of taste.
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- Part 76 of TheLordOfLaMancha's Podfic
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[Podfic] a conversation on conthsen afternoon, zadash by GoLBPodfics (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Jan 2024
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With their spouses off in Marquet, Essek and Yasha share an afternoon of quiet tomfoolery.
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- Part 17 of GoLB Crit Role Podfics
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Almost a century ago, Essek had met a person who shaped the entirety of his life. A human, disguised as a drow, somehow alive and well despite being in the very centre of the Dynasty. A brilliant wizard disguised as a merchant, somehow capable of casting dunamancy. And not just any spells - Essek didn't even know one could possess such power.
Now, standing in the shadows of the Bright Queen's throne, looking at the ragtag group in front of them, he barely kept his hands from shaking. One of the intruders, a red-haired human, looked exactly like that mysterious man from his past, but a decade or so younger.
Humans didn't live that long. And they certainly didn't age in reverse.
This was impossible.
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[Podfic] OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy by TheLordOfLaMancha
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 May 2022
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This is a Podfic of OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy.
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The more Verin dug into it, the more convinced he became. Essek had spent an inordinate amount of time with the Mighty Nein when they came to Rosohna. Done all sorts of strange favors for them. Ferried them all over Wildemount. Arranged visits with prisoners in the Dungeon of Penance. Let them dig up his yard. Descended into Aeor with them, unaccompanied. Accepted invitations to dinner. Let one of them hug him. In public. More than once.
Mind control. It had to be.
Verin gets it into his head that Essek has been kidnapped by the Mighty Nein (specifically Caleb), and sets out on a solo rescue mission to Rexxentrum.
Hijinks ensue.
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- Part 48 of TheLordOfLaMancha's Podfic
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