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“We may have severed the head of the beast, but I’m afraid it still lives. Now, it’s a wild and unpredictable thing, you see? I will not let it corrupt the good we’ve begun to weave into this nation. Will you help me, my friend?”
Trent Ikithon has been brought to justice and most of the Volstrucker have vanished as though they were nothing more than frightening folklore. Caleb Widogast believed in second chances. Beauregard Lionett believed him to be naive. Eight months after the trial’s end, the Expositor finds troubling evidence of a new collective being created by Scourgers, and the implications are far from reassuring.
What haunts the shadows doesn’t always remain in the dark.
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In Dying, We Dream // In Dreaming, We Love by arcanethreads
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 May 2024
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“People say that your life flashes before your eyes in your final moments. Perhaps, and it was an indulgent wistfulness, all his prior hours spent with a beacon on his lap were now granting him the gift of witnessing unfulfilled futures instead.”
During Trent Ikithon’s trial, a plot to silence the key witness for the case is enacted upon.
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During an evening of merriment with the Mighty Nein, Caleb convinces Essek to dance. Post-main campaign, pre M9 reunited.
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The music swelled, discordant and frantic, yet with a practiced hand that crafted beauty from chaos. Phrase repeating, circling, there was desperation in the melody. Notes poured from the violin’s strings, leaping to life in an impassioned frenzy.
‘This,’ Gale considered, ‘is what the Weave feels like to him.’
Mind troubled by the diminishing effectiveness of sating the Netherese orb with arcane artifacts, Gale’s sleepless evening is interrupted by the sound of music. In being beckoned by the melody, he stumbles into a moment more intimate than he was expecting.
Gale/named Tav, Act I.
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The adventuring life is one that is humble. It is also one filled with mundane dangers like carnivorous beasts and bandits. Essek is learning how to take care of himself while living on the road alone, but sometimes, he still needs a little help. Sometimes, he just wants to be someplace warm.
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Foolishly abandoned by his mess of a wizard, the little fey Frumpkin sets out on a journey to go back where he belongs.
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25 Feb 2026
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my scars remind me by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
08 Feb 2026
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There had been a time when Caleb carried his past like a wound. Now he carried it like truth.
In the frozen quiet of Eiselcross, old scars begin to ache.
Essek has spent his life studying the forces that govern the world. Caleb Widogast teaches him something far rarer: how to live with the weight of what cannot be undone.
Febuwhump 2026 || Day Two || Old Injury
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24 Feb 2026
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“Caleb,” Essek asks in an undertone, as they walk away from one window, its festive display festooned in so many colorful sparkling lights that the very sight makes Essek’s eyes water, “if there is something you want to buy, then why not just buy it?”
“Too expensive,” Caleb demurs, the denial so prompt it cannot be anything but reflexive. “Besides, I don't need it.”
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19 Feb 2026
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i put this heavy heart in you by Jothowrote
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
21 Sep 2025
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Caleb dies, and Essek barely survives it. Caleb comes back, and Essek barely survives that, either.
Lifespan angst shadowgast with consecuted Caleb.
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08 Feb 2026
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"Did you jump in a river for a cat?"
Essek doesn't know why he rescued the kitten, but now he has to suffer the consequences.
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- Part 3 of Cat Dads
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20 Aug 2025