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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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04 Sep 2023
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Shortly post-Cognouza, Essek takes a position as a lighthouse keeper on a remote island north of Eiselcross. These are his letters to Caleb.
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30 Aug 2023
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29 Aug 2023
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Starling by kaiannae for LuckyOwlsFoot, lakrisrot (enheduane), annie_blackbird, potential_ends, MushroomKnives, mooneloquence, LivThael
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Oct 2024
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Bren wakes up in a dank Cell in Vergesson, the fading touch of his cell-mate on his temple and a scream of grief and denial on his lips. He seeks to flee this place of nightmares, to right the wrongs he had done, to erase the monstrosity he had committed. It’s a pipe dream, a fevered wish, but it's all he has left. On his way out, he kills a man who is more of a monster than he ever was, and steals something as important as his returning humanity- a Fairy.
Fairies are beings said to be of pure Arcana, full of potential. Their wings shed a powder used to enhance a spell beyond the caster's ability. The creatures themselves are used as an Arcane Focus to negate use of material components and enhance spells focused through them.
They are beautiful creatures, surprisingly humanoid, elf-like, and considered as intelligent as the average house-pet. Bren had seen these before, had worked with them in the past.
So why, the longer he spends time with this Fairy, does he feel like this was another matter in which he'd been lied to? Why does he feel that this Fairy is- more, much more than it seems?Usually updates weekly, Saturday/Sunday but no guarantees. Hectic Schedule.
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29 Aug 2023
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Five known aliases of Essek Thelyss, and one that (perhaps) will be forgotten.
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25 Aug 2023
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Essek's hair is a bird’s nest, his usually immaculate clothes wrinkled and stained. Yasha has to smile at the sight of him like this, wearing the slightly unhinged look of a new parent who has had to deal with too much crying on top of too little rest.
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22 Aug 2023
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a sort of beacon where there used to be a dull roar by wordonawing
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Nov 2022
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Thirteen days into living with Caleb, Essek realises something he ought to have grasped much earlier: he should not be here.
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21 Aug 2023
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When Bren Aldric Eremendrud was a boy, whenever he felt small or lonely, he’d look up at the stars, wondering if there was life up there. Turns out, he was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world it was from the deep beneath the Lucidian Ocean, a fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between the dimensions, a breach.
To fight the Kaiju wreaking havoc on the world, mankind created monsters of their own. The Jaeger Program was implemented. Jaeger. Zemnian for hunter. Monsters designed to put these otherworldly abominations back in their place.
One pilot couldn’t handle the neural load to pilot the Jaegers alone, so a two pilot system was implemented, one on the left side, one on the right. The two pilots had to link their minds to work in perfect synchronous harmony to ensure that the mechs could run properly. With technology being advanced from cooperation and a worldwide ceasefire to stop this problem, the Pan Lucidian Defense Corps was born.
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18 Aug 2023
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babe, there's something magic about you by hoper_dreamer
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jun 2021
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"Two very complicated, broken people finally able to find love after healing as individuals can take time..."
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What happens when two wizards quietly, deeply in love with each other move in together.
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14 Aug 2023
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There is a gravity that has pulled them together many times. It pulled Caleb’s lips to Essek’s forehead, and Essek’s hands to Caleb’s arms when a tower collapsed upon him. It pulled Caleb to Eiselcross, now, to be at Essek’s side as his life as the Shadowhand dies.
Now, it could pull them together into Aeor.
(Two wizards venture into Aeor - and find that something has woken in the dead city's depths. Something dangerous. Something that will force them to decide what their pasts mean to them, and what they mean to each other.)
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13 Aug 2023
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Caleb and Essek keep driving one another to distraction.
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- Part 4 of Among the Tattered Ruins
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25 Jul 2023
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24 Jul 2023
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Over eighty years after the death of his love, Essek meets a young drow who recognizes him despite the fact that they've never met. And what's worse, the boy trusts him. As Essek finds himself once again threatened by crimes he'd thought were buried, he must decide if he will be the person the Nein made him into, or if he will once again protect himself at any cost.
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24 Jul 2023
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The Star and the Wildflower by devil_seabird_king (ShaaKi)
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Jun 2023
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29 Jun 2023
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Caleb finds that he has little cause to think about Essek after their expedition to Aeor. Why would he, they are only occasional allies after all.
(A question currently unanswered - are you a monster or a martyr if you betray him to spare him?)
Whumptober 2021 inspired fic for the following prompt:
No. 5 - I’VE GOT RED IN MY LEDGER (betrayal // broken nose)Series
- Part 9 of Whumptober 2021
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20 Jun 2023
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I would sing along but I only remember the screams by LuckyOwlsFoot
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 May 2023
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The Umavi of Den Thelyss approaches the Mighty Nein with a request. Her sons are missing. She wants The Nein to find them. They are, after all, faster than going through the official channels. Turns out, while yes they move a little faster, that was not the only reason for her requesting them specifically.
They learn, but the road ahead is a bloody one, and knowing is only the beginning.
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- Part 1 of Sing Along
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18 Jun 2023
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This AU is born from a writing prompt on the Aeor is for Lovers +18 Server and takes a look what Campaign 2 would look like if den Thelyss was purged long befor the Mighty Nein meet.
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01 Jun 2023
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what do i see in your eyes (besides my reflection, hanging high) by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Jun 2022
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But no, she was here at Caleb’s shitty table, across from Essek, who’s boring holes into the rough-hewn wood with downcast eyes. The thing about Essek, she muses, was that he felt that he was so indebted to the Nein that he was willing to do almost anything to avoid being an inconvenience. Which might, she thinks, be sort of toxic.
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22 May 2023
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Daemon!AU
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14 May 2023
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“That’s right, love.” Caleb—Essek’s Caleb, the one who loved him—whispered in his ear. It sent a delightful shiver down Essek’s spine. “He wants to take me away from you. He hates seeing you happy.”
The other Caleb, the one who would never be his, looked pained. “Essek, that’s not the real me. That’s a fiend wearing my face.”
“Is that how little you think of me?” Essek snapped. The other Caleb flinched as if from a physical blow. “I know exactly what he is.” He’s the one who will give me what you never would.
Essek’s Caleb kissed him sweetly on the cheek. It felt like benediction. “Be a dear and get rid of him for me, darling.”
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29 Apr 2023