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From then on, Caleb’s carefully laid plans of courting Essek had been tossed aside in favor of slow, loving kisses shared over half translated books and morning tea.
“How about this,” Essek says primly, sitting up against the headboard and folding his hand in his lap, “Outside, you continue with your plans to court me, and I will act accordingly. But here—“
or, Caleb's plans to properly court Essek are ruined, but it's ok because that means they can kiss more.
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- Part 1 of pink in the night
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10 Dec 2022
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Kittens, while precious, do tend to cause problems on purpose.
Good thing Essek is already smitten.
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10 Dec 2022
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After a spellwork accident, Caleb slips through time. Centuries in the future, Essek Thelyss is waiting to catch him.
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10 Dec 2022
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The Shadowhand has taken a liking to a human.
That’s what the gossip at Vurmas Outpost says, anyway. Entertainment is hard to find when opening a window is a safety hazard and ‘seeing some fresh faces’ is only possible in the context of unearthing yet another adventuring party that has recently perished while trying to brave the Eiselcross wilds without a guide. Endless white mountainscapes dull the mind, fray it thin, and turn it to the only possible alternative source of discovery inside bleak walls—interpersonal drama.
Caleb Widogast has a charm about him, some would agree. What is most curious, however, is the fact that this charm seems to work on Essek of Den Thelyss. This is nigh on incomprehensible, even when the evidence is right there before their very eyes.Bookmarked by Muon_nu
10 Dec 2022
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In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn by SweetSilentSteps
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Jun 2022
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Essek offers to babysit Luc for the night. Chaos ensues as it is want to do.
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10 Dec 2022
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Still, it was funny to him - really, it was! - that everyone at the academy, especially his students, had come to the conclusion that he, somehow, had mad game.
Maybe he is really good in bed, uttered, quietly, by one of his Advanced Transmutation students, as they waited with their friends on the hallways outside of his office. Maybe, had squeaked one of the shyer boys in his class, he is dating all of them. You know. That’s a thing.
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The mystery of Professor Widogast, and his various romantic escapades.
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10 Dec 2022
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“Oh, ah. Hallo.”
Essek startles so badly he drops his levitation. He whips around, a hand thrown reflexively out to defend himself, a spell ready on his lips. He has to blink. And blink again. But no, he is not imagining this. Here is Caleb Widogast in the flesh, standing in Jester and Fjord's sitting room.
“Hello,” Essek manages, his throat very dry.
[Or: Four times Dynasty fugitive Essek Thelyss sought refuge with Jester Lavorre, and one time he found Caleb Widogast instead.]
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10 Dec 2022
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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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10 Dec 2022
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Essek ventures into the dark depths of the mysterious Aeor with his friends, the Mighty Nein, but when a battle comes to a head and Essek makes a choice it throws his life into chaos and he struggles to right it. Everything is the same and different, his knowledge and actions are questioned and tested and Essek comes to some very startling realisations along the way.
A multi-chaptered fic answering all of the Essek Week 2021 prompts, join Essek on a journey unlike anything he has experienced as he attempts to make good on a rare opportunity afforded no one else.
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- Part 1 of The Fullness of Time
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10 Dec 2022
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The Glow and Shine of Rotten Wood by sociallychallengednerd
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Jul 2021
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What if Essek never made a deal with the Cerberus Assemble? What if he had taken the beacon for himself? What if he had fled to the Empire to escape the Dynasty? What if he met a little goblin woman in a dirty jail cell in a small town in a hostile, foreign country?
small edits made 11/5/21 to fit in with later parts of the Give the Lie series
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- Part 1 of Give the Lie
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10 Dec 2022
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The destruction of the T-Dock had unforeseen repercussions, the sudden loss of so much dunamantic potential throwing the world off balance. Caleb and Essek find themselves yanked into a parallel reality, face to face with who they could have been, had things been a little different.
In order to find a way home they decide to enlist the help of those who could have been the Mighty Nein, though it quickly becomes apparent that in this universe, the world has not been kind to the people they call friends, and they are not the people they know.
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10 Dec 2022
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Footsteps pad down the hall and past the stairs. Actual footsteps. Verin can’t remember the last time he saw Essek walk on his own two feet. He feels a twisted knot form beneath his sternum; something isn’t right.
Thinking only of justice and restoring his family's honor after Essek's betrayal, Verin Thelyss finds something he never expected, an Essek he never expected. A mission for justice turns into a race against time and a family finds their world upended.
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- Part 1 of Lay Your Bones
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10 Dec 2022
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“'I have some good news for you.'
Had the words come from anyone else they would have sounded fewer warning bells, but any time that Deirta Thelyss spoke happily to her eldest son it meant that he was about to experience something truly awful."
In which Caleb clears debts, Essek learns the meaning of family, and aristocrats get what they deserve.
This is the requested full Concubine AU version of "Conflict of Interest" where the wizards stay in Rosohna, because your author keeps their promises.
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- Part 1 of Two Roads Diverged
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10 Dec 2022
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“Happy All Hallow’s Eve,” the master of this slice of the feywild greeted. “I was wondering if I would see you again.”
“I, of course, would never pass up the opportunity...so long as you’ll invite me in,” Essek said, remaining on the edge of the space. The barrier between him and the fey pulsed and stretched taut over Essek’s skin. The fey smiled a sharp knowing smile.
“Of course,” he said. “You are welcome here, and are owed all of my hospitality.”
Essek has a friend he only gets to see four times a year, and enjoys taking advantage of his hospitality. Especially on All Hallow's Eve.
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10 Dec 2022
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Half-Sick of Shadows by Copperhawk
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Lady of Shalott - Alfred Lord Tennyson
17 Oct 2022
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Essek Thelyss departs from the Mighty Nein shortly after the close of the negotiations to end the war and repatriate the Beacon he stole. He tells them he has loose ends to tie up - but he is a loose end all his own, and not the only one looking to weave this tapestry…
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10 Dec 2022
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The story goes: Caleb, a fresh-faced farm boy from Igrathad, moved to Rosohna ten years previously to achieve his dream of owning a bookstore. With a little family money from his parents’ untimely deaths and the sale of their farm, he rented a storefront and set up shop here in the Gallimaufry district.
Of course, he shouldn’t have let himself get so comfortable.
It’s mid-afternoon on a mild Conthsen and Caleb is reading behind the counter when the bell chimes above the door and an altogether too familiar face walks in: Essek Thelyss.
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As one of the Empire’s deep undercover Volstrucker, Caleb Widogast warms the beds of Taskhands, Lens secretaries, and wives of government officials to get any advantage over the Dynasty he can. But when he needs more information than the scientist informant Essek Thelyss is giving him, he finds his usual charms don’t cut it. A chance meeting in a bookstore offers him a different way in.
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10 Dec 2022
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It starts like this: Essek, in a fit of lonely idiocy, agrees to partake in a honeypot scheme with the Mighty Nein. It goes about as smoothly as he should have expected.
It evolves to this: by decree of Deirta Thelyss, Verin is tasked with protecting his brother and his brother’s friends(??) as they parlay with the Children of Malice over the diplomatic incident they caused. Verin remembers his brother being much more of an aloof douche and much less of a floating disaster.
Or: In a reality where the Mighty Nein do a stop in Xhorhas prior to meeting up with DeRogna, Essek agrees to help with one side quest and ends up with a lover, a brother, and a fight with a god.
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10 Dec 2022
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Una Ermendrud meets Caleb Widogast for the first time when she is nineteen and pregnant, and he’s passed out in her azaleas.
[Caleb travels back in time and saves his parents, the fanfic. Shadowgast towards the end; first half is almost completely gen.]
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- Part 1 of time travel
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10 Dec 2022
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Caleb has a plethora of uses for polymorph outside of combat. Sometimes he uses it to avoid things he can’t face; sometimes he uses it to face things he can’t avoid; and sometimes, just sometimes, he uses it to go a little apeshit.
Or, five times Caleb used polymorph to get around his problems, and one time he used it to solve them.
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10 Dec 2022
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Caleb has a habit of slipping back into Zemnian when his guard is down.
Or: Five times Essek didn’t understand, and one time he absolutely did, the little shit.
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10 Dec 2022