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Ludinus and Essek are two characters with a remarkable amount of parallels. Putting them in a room together has disastrous results.
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06 Feb 2026
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A series focused on Essek and Caleb navigating some unplanned pregnancy and how it impacts their lives. Fluffy, mild angst and lots and lots of comfort!
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23 Jan 2026
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To end a war before it begins, the Kryn Dynasty and the Dwendalian Empire bind their futures together—through an arranged marriage between Essek Thelyss, Shadowhand of the Dynasty, and Bren Aldric Ermendrud, a Volstrucker shaped by the very system meant to destroy him.
What begins as political necessity becomes something far more dangerous: trust.
As ancient rituals, Luxon judgment, and imperial ambition collide, Essek and Bren must navigate betrayal, assassination attempts, and the weight of power that refuses to stay buried. When the Luxon claims its due and new life takes hold—twice over—the cost of survival becomes deeply personal.
Surrounded by allies old and new, guarded by a Dynasty that will burn the world before losing what it protects, Essek and Bren build a family in the shadow of empires.
This is a story about chosen loyalty, quiet defiance, and the futures forged when love survives the machinery meant to erase it.
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- Part 1 of A Wedding or A War
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11 Jan 2026
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A collection of ficlets, 500 words each, using the Whumptober 2025 prompt list. Unrelated unless otherwise noted.
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01 Oct 2025
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The Golden Flower by Alexis_Trvlyn
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu
09 Feb 2026
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After the incident during the hunt, Jinshi and Maomao are now forced to address the aftermath of their reckless dalliance.
The personal bleeds to the political and wounds left untreated festers in the dark.
Can love survive in a garden nurtured by a poisoned well?
Đoá Hoa Hoàng Kim: a Vietnamese translation by the lovely Kazerin
A/N: Earlier chapters are being re-edited. Mostly additional scenes to adjust pacing and tone, but nothing that changes the core narrative. Re-reading isn’t required for old readers unless you simply feel like it. Edited chapters are marked with this: ^
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- Part 2 of Conjectures and Consequences
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08 Jun 2025
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In the handful of months that have gone of Essek's first semester at Tidepeak University he's managed to create quite the reputation for himself. His perfect score at the entrance exam already offering some aid in that, plus the perk of rooming by himself in the dorms.
That is until a human man by the name Caleb Widogast seems intent to slot himself into his otherwise mostly solitary world. If not for his intelligence and talent Essek would have outright refused- or is it perhaps the warmth, openness and complexity that makes him want to keep Caleb around?
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13 Apr 2025
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Verin Thelyss has been sent on a mission by his mother, but what he finds at Widogast Academy isn't at all what he expected. Written for Shadowgast Week 2020. Prompt: Domesticity.
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- Part 3 of Do Some Good
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- English
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13 Jan 2025
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This was not how Essek wanted his friends to find out he had a younger brother. Also this was not how Verin thought he was going to meet his brother's friends
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- Part 3 of Hey, Brother
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- 75,154
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- 16/16
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29 Dec 2024
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Spiders, it turned out, really were everywhere.
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29 Dec 2024
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No. 12 - IT’LL BE FUN, THEY SAID
torture | made to watch | begging
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Essek had known there was a good chance that the Assembly wouldn't let him go easily, but he certainly hadn't expected this. He had expected them to continue to harass him for information or to manipulate him into stealing more beacons for them. He supposed this shouldn't be too surprising though, considering how cruel he knew the members of the Assembly to be.
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- Part 10 of Whumptober 2021 (Shadowgast Edition)
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25 Dec 2024
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Of Broken Plans and Places to Be by ThreeGremlinsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Apr 2021
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Caleb knew that Essek was willingly putting himself in danger when joining them on their journey.
He knew that Essek was aware of the risks.
And he knew that Essek had done terrible things to ultimately lead him there.Yet, Caleb also knew that he was not about to let Essek Thelyss suddenly succumb to a mysterious illness.
And if that required him to keep an eye on Essek in the dome, so be it.
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11 Nov 2024
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the most difficult thing to read is time by pitchblackkoi
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Jan 2024
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Caleb Widogast has recently moved to the city of Rosohna, hiding there from his past in the Empire. He has his friends, his family, the Mighty Nein by his side, but there is one more person in the city that supports him unconditionally. Essek Thelyss, the best friend Caleb thought he had lost decades ago, finds him in this new city and reaches out to rekindle their friendship. But is that the only thing that they will rekindle?
subtitled: (maybe because it changes so many things)
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09 Sep 2024
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Lifespan angst only works if you die of natural causes. But there are plenty of ways the members of the Mighty Nein might die earlier, of even stupider causes. Spoilers for episode 141.
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21 Aug 2024
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This is the deepest part of the Dungeon of Penance. This is where the most dangerous criminals are held and where traitors of the Dynasty are kept, before they are sent off for execution.
This is where they took his friends - The Mighty Nein.Bookmarked by ElessariEdain
21 Aug 2024
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Right. Okay. Holy shit. Beau’s at a complete loss. It's the middle of the afternoon on a perfectly ordinary Yulisen, and one of her best friends has gone and turned himself into a toddler.
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04 Jun 2024
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the city sleeps, but we're awake (post Ep96) by damnedwizards
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 May 2024
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Orym and Essek have a little chat in Aeor.
Contains spoilers up and into episode 96, be warned!
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31 May 2024
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While exploring the ruins of Aeor, Essek gets whammied by a cursed magical artifact. Severely weakened and without magic, he's left wondering how the scales of friendship will balance when he's gone from "helpful resource" to "liability".
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20 May 2024
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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2023
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Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire.
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13 May 2024
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Caleb catches Essek in a horny mood. Things escalate from there.
Don't read this.
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28 Apr 2024
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After Essek and Verin are forced to flee Rosohna or suffer the fate of the rest of their den, they find themselves in Nicodranas, where they're quickly taken under the wing of a young Marion Lavorre. The soon-to-be mother quickly finds herself adopting the two orphaned drow.
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28 Apr 2024