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Georgie brings the Admiral to the Institute to get free cat-sitting and give Jon one last chance to be human.
Admiral POV.
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26 Apr 2026
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See the Line where the Sky meets the Sea by The_Floating_World
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
13 Sep 2020
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When Jon is a child he looks into the infinite abyss of space. The Vast looks back into him.
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11 Apr 2026
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nor any more youth or age than there is now by subcorax
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
08 Feb 2020
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The local Primary school has a new teacher. He is, to say the very least, odd.
A series of statements regarding the interactions of the townsfolk with one Jonathan Sims, never formally given.
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08 Apr 2026
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Martin didn't think Jon would do it. But this was the same Jon who had gone into the coffin with the full knowledge that no one had ever made it out of that thing. What's the worst that could happen if he quit? He could die, of course. But more often than not, Jon felt like a walking corpse anyway.
Or
After being rejected by Martin, Jon decides to go through with quitting anyway.
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16 Mar 2026
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“I am pretty fucked, Essek.”
He doesn’t intend to let the spell go, but it unravels along with his concentration as the pain becomes overwhelming. Wincing, he lets his arm fall back to the ground. He’s been trained to take this. Nothing ambitious for a moment. Just breathe.
Prompt: Caleb and Essek are separated in Aeor and Caleb gets blinded.
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01 Feb 2026
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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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31 Jan 2026
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Pt 1. Hemocraft: Molly tempts Caleb with the idea of combining sex and magic, which leads to a truly spectacular night for both of them.
Pt 2. What Does it Mean?: As they continue to map each other out, Caleb starts to realize he has feelings and pushes Molly away. Molly respects his decision to end things, but when he figures out why, he decides that Caleb needs to learn that he deserves to be loved.
Pt 3. Tethered: Caduceus Clay accompanies his new companions back to the gravesite of their fallen friend, and with a lot of magic and love, Molly lives again. It takes some adjustment and a bit of practice, but Molly and Caleb settle into their new bond.
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24 Jan 2026
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fractal lollipops by Ffwydriad
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
11 Nov 2019
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Excerpt of an audio transcription of Beauregard, the Archivist, and Jester Lavorre, Archival Assistant and Avatar of the Spiral.
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22 Jan 2026
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The Bright Queen does find him again, eventually.
500 years after the Mighty Nein save Essek's soul, he has a conversation with his former queen. One shot. Episode 97 spoilers.
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18 Jan 2026
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Alexandre Lionett is four years and eight months and he doesn't have a sister.
What he does have is a big house, two parents, strange hiding places and a name that he's not supposed to know or talk about. Which only makes him want to know and talk about it more.
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11 Jan 2026
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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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03 Jan 2026
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OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Apr 2022
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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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01 Jan 2026
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There had been rumours about his and Caleb's sordid love affair since long before it was technically true. Essek was simply... playing into them a little, to help his defection go a little more smoothly. Rosohna would gossip about it for a few months, and then the rumour mill would move on, as it always does.
(it doesn't).Or: how Essek and Caleb accidentally inspired (at least) a few dozen smut novels.
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28 Dec 2025
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There’s something new in the air, something obvious yet intangible, like a rise in temperature, a shift in scent.
It’s her. It’s the familiar. A fey spirit in the form of a bat is chewing at Essek’s earrings, and for the first time, his towers are home to a living creature aside from him.
(In which Essek adjusts to life with his new familiar.)
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25 Dec 2025
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Oh my dear, will you believe in me? (Can you see the moon lit up above?) by Reonnex
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
24 Dec 2025
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The man's eye bags seemed deeper than ever, and what little spark there was in his blue eyes seemed to have vanished. This Caleb was quiet. Different from the spark they knew.
Molly knew things. He spotted subtle movements other people dismissed, behaviors that are slightly off to the norm. Something obviously happened that day they left each other that shook him to his core, and clung to him like a demon. Claws deep within his skin.
To put it simply, something was wrong with Caleb Widogast, and for the first time, Molly didn't know what
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24 Dec 2025
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things no ears have heard, things no eyes have seen by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Dec 2025
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“One thing Caleb had learned was that Essek’s moods were often sudden, and vicious, and shocking even to him— and often, nothing to do with Caleb at all, squabbling over components and a jar of orange juice in stasis aside.”
Or, Una Ermendrud and Deirta Thelyss continue to haunt the narrative even after the world has settled.
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24 Dec 2025
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somewhere between threat and mercy by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
20 Dec 2025
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**MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1X06!! DO NOT READ BELOW!!**
“Do you have any idea,” Essek demands, voice breaking at last, “what it is like to murder your own mother?”
For a heartbeat, Caleb does not move.
Then he nods.
“Yes,” he says. “I do.”A re-imagining of the confrontation from episode 97 from the original campaign, with this new alternate Essek backstory from the animated series, told from Essek's POV. Mostly Caleb and Essek focused, with some canon Jester and Caduceus dialogue.
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20 Dec 2025
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the dream within a dream (aka: the truth doesn't set you free, it just hurts) by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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**MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1x05 AND CALEB'S BACKSTORY (do not read below)**
the dream within a dream (aka: once upon a time, i murdered my parents) - but I couldn't call it that without spoilers, obviously.
“Let me tell you a story.”
Caleb never meant to tell the Mighty Nein the truth - not this soon, not like this, and probably not at all. But with his amulet shattered and the past closing in, silence is no longer protection.
In the clear, unforgiving morning light of a different farmhouse, he unravels the story of Bren Aldric Ermendrud: the dream he lived, the fire he cast, and the truth that broke him open.
What the Nein do with that truth will change everything.
This is the missing scene of how Caleb tells them his truth - and how they react to it.
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12 Dec 2025
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Stanley Pines, age 26, wakes up in a park to a nerd staring at him. The kid says his name is Dipper and that he's on a mission to reunite Stan with his brother. Stan doesn't really want to do this, but Dipper is offering to pay, and he says his brother is in trouble. Stanley will always help Stanford, no matter what shit has happened in the past, so he sets off.
Stanford Pines, age 26, wakes up in his house to a teenage girl chatting with his friend, Fiddleford McGucket. The girl- Mabel, supposedly- knows all about his muse and their dalliances because she is, also supposedly, his great-niece from the future. While he does not want to reunite with Stanley necessarily, she essentially blackmails him into being nice when he arrives. Because apparently Stanley is coming to his house. Joy.
(Dipper and Mabel, on the eve of their 18th birthday, are sent back in time to their Grunkles 1 year before the portal is completed. They both, separately and then together, work to fix the mistakes of the past. Featuring a matchmaking Mabel and a scam artist icon Dipper.)
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12 Nov 2025
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They've always been doers of the impossible, improbable, and just plain unlikely. So how, exactly, do the Flynn-Fletcher boys handle something so entirely mundane as starting college?
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02 Nov 2025