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    19 Dec 2025

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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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    22 Nov 2025

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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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    18 Nov 2025

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    Probably my favorite shadowgast fic of all time holy SHIT

  4. Public Bookmark 47

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    '“It will allow you to serve your nation. It will give any possible scandal time to die down.”

    She was marrying him off to prevent him from tarnishing their reputation. The youngest shadowhand in a century. A prodigy in his field. He was now a source of shame. And who better to do the job? he thought bitterly. He had nearly started a war, so letting him be the sacrificial pawn that blocked it would be a fitting penance. And he had certainly been brought up to play political games. Now she was asking him to play them on a slightly different board. He let his gaze drift.

    “To whom am I promised?”'

    Essek is married off to prevent a war to a man he meets at the altar. So far no one knows that he was the Assembly's contact in Rosohna. So far he doesn't know whose case against the Assembly his confession helped. Can he navigate this web of secrets in an unfamiliar land, or will he be caught in it instead?

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    17 Oct 2025

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    24 Mar 2025