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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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23 Aug 2025
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Of all the ways Essek thought he might find himself staring down mortality, his magic making a cancer of his lonely heart never even entered his consideration. But then, his calculus has never been able to account for the Mighty Nein.
There is a remedy for his illness, of course. There is always a way to unwind magic, but there is always a price. The cost of Essek’s life, now that he’s contracted Hanahaki’s disease, can be paid two ways—one is higher than Essek can bear and the other, well.
The other can only be paid by someone else.
And if Essek could ask that, then he wouldn’t be sick at all, would he?
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23 Aug 2025
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"I could fall in love with you."
Gods above, fall in love? Where did this come from?
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An exploration of Caleb and Essek's relationship, throughout and after the campaign, and how they came to love each other.
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23 Aug 2025
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The moment Essek left the Blooming Grove, he knew he should have stayed. He wanted to stay with them, his friends, but that was not the path that laid before him. Returned to the outpost, he managed to get by on messages and memories until a very welcome visitor arrived at the outpost unexpectedly.
Post Campaign: the details of Aeor and afterwards as told through the eyes of the Nein, primarily from Essek's point of view. Essek x Caleb will be the main pairing, though the others will l ikely make an appearance.
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23 Aug 2025
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An envisioning of the ever-popular journey Caleb and Essek take to the T-Dock, exploring why Caleb chose Essek to join him, the internal struggle that would have taken place leading up to Caleb’s final decision, and the slow process of healing through a developing relationship.
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At the narrow desk before him, at the centre of the room, sat Essek, straight backed and hands steepled, his form swallowed by the heaps of books and maps about him. His eyes were dark, rimmed with rings of exhaustion, his appearance unusually messy, the traces of finger tracks still visible through his hair.
"Hey," Caleb attempted to sound casual. //You sound like a dunce.//
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23 Aug 2025