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Hi my name is Shadowhand Essek Lucifer Absinthe of den Thelyss....
The Shadowgast Immortal nobody asked for...
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the night gives way to dawn by Chaos_Breeds for vietbluecoeur (vietbluefic)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Sep 2025
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Despite himself, Essek's heart began to race.
The elf raised her arms, bowed to the court, and dropped her disguise.
The reveal of the beacon had been a silent one, with no air in the room and no one bold enough to speak into the silence.
But the reveal of Jester, adorned in traveler's clothes, battle-weary with cuts and scars and marks in equal measure, alive, rocked the court.
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A fic inspired by vietbluecoeur, where Jester was raised by the Bright Queen and Essek nearly kills her as a favor to the Cerberus Assembly.
In this fic, she comes back. She isn't alone.
Essek knows he's in deep, deep trouble.
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Essek doesn’t date, and for good reason. It’s exhausting, the dance around feelings and pleasure, made worse by the shadow of his ill health. He’s perfectly content with the company of his Guides, their platonic exchange of intimacies fully serviceable. He doesn’t need anyone else.
Caleb Widogast is the Empire human making a valiant attempt towards involving himself in Rosohna’s kink scene. He shouldn’t be as charming as he is but Essek finds himself drawn to Caleb, caught in his gravity well, pulled past the event horizon against his will. He doesn’t quite mind, especially when Essek connects Caleb Widogast to Bren Ermendrud, the researcher on loan from Soltryce studying time travel under Essek’s purview here in the Marble Tomes.
Don’t we all have mistakes we wish to correct?
Essek has made many and, caught up in a whirlwind romance with a Dom perfect in all the ways he didn’t know he wanted, he makes many more.
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June of Doom 2025:
Not long after the Rites of Catatheosis, Ashton agrees to venture to the Kryn Dynasty alongside the Bright Queen's escort in order to learn more about their dunamantic abilities. Who would've fucking guessed that Essek's earlier warnings about the Bright Queen's intentions held some merit?
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- Part 3 of Rewound (FCG Lives AU)
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I hear the music and it takes me by surprise by icenineporcupine
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Sep 2025
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“Jester’s here. The wedding is off. I had a dress and this huge prank planned for Fjord, and now nobody will see either one!”
The Sending blasts through the ordered calm of Caleb’s thoughts. Veth. Her shrill delivery is flippant. The message itself is a fluffernutter: an unmitigated bombshell.
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Essek reflects. Verin reveals a secret.
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Dominox was definitely an opportunist and the high level spell caster was too delicious a snack to pass up on.
'You think this to be an illusion?' Essek winced when he felt the hot breath of Ludinus burn against the shell of his ear. 'Some perfunctory grand play of a fiend wanting to eat up all those tasty little demons that call that anxiety riddled head of yours home?'
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Essek Thelyss comes to Soltryce to deliver guest lectures and, on the side, cultivate the brand new Archmage of Domestic Protections. He’s hoping that Caleb Widogast will oblige him by picking up his predecessor’s interest in conspiring to steal Luxon beacons, after so rudely murdering Da’leth mere weeks before the culmination of their schemes.
Essek is prepared for espionage. He is not prepared to find a love that will change the course of his life.
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next time, don’t bother to knock, ’cause i made you a key by platomityy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Sep 2025
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au-gust week 5: roommate/college au
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- Part 14 of critical role !!
- Part 5 of sage’s au-gust ‘25
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“Well, how could I ever deny the Shadowhand such a request?” Caleb said, kissing Essek’s forehead and brushing a few of his stray white curls off of his forehead. “How will you have me do so?”
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Lucien regards Essek. “You know I steal things for a living, don’t you? You know I’ve got a few dead men to my name, too?”
“I am aware of these facts, Mr. Tavelle. I considered them to be among your highest qualifications for this job.”
“And yet you came here alone?”
“...Yes?”
Lucien digests this. “Okaaay. Well, how’s the pay?”
“200 gold."
Lucien bursts out laughing. “Nope! Nope. Absolutely not. Do you think I was born last night?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Lemme get this straight.” Lucien leans forward, staring Essek down. “You’re telling me you came to a distant kingdom, arranged to meet a known criminal in a bathhouse, and thought nothing of stripping nude for a parley—but now you’re telling me that you need protection for your meeting with some spook? You’re dangerous enough on your own, my friend. If you’re in the market for a merc, it’s because you are about to walk into some fucked up, unsound, insane shit—and I’m not getting flayed alive and broken on the rack for 200 gold. For 500 gold? Sure, fine, that’ll get you some light flaying, maybe a turn or two on the rack—but not for 200.”
Essek sighs. “Do you prefer it in gold or platinum?”
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The Smartest are Always Last To Know by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Sep 2025
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Why was he even here? He wasnt academically gifted in any sense of the word, and yet, Mollymauk Tealeaf had his application accepted. To be the assistant to the top Professor of the Academy no less. He just hoped that he could fulfil the duties that would be required of him. If in doubt, Mollymauk knew that he had the gift of the gab, and could just pretend to know more than he actually did. It worked usually, especially around stuffy old academics that would visit him late at night.
So why was he so nervous to mess up?
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Caleb's summer library job is ideal for many reasons: it's quiet, it's easy, and he receives money for spending time in a building that he'd otherwise be in anyway. However, this summer, someone's beaten him to the punch: new kid Essek Thelyss, who seems to have no idea he's stolen Caleb's spot and seems to have no interest in him at all.
But a whole summer is a long time to spend ignoring someone. And with the rest of Caleb's friends otherwise occupied, there's nothing left for either of them to do except become friends. Or maybe more.
[A glimpse into Caleb and Essek's summer together].
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- Part 3 of Driftin' Away (Summer Nights)
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Lucien was defeated. Mollymauk is alive and back with his friends. A little bit changed, but it was still the Mighty Nein's lost friend. And is excited to heal and return to what life used to be for him, or at least, try to return to a normal one.
His friends are in diferent parts of Wildemount, he is developing an unexpected crush in not one, but two of them. And they are both putting themselves at risk by visiting the last place Molly wants to return to.
In the meantime, Caleb is panicking over his bisexual maelstrom and Essek is trying very hard to not worry too much over the possibility of his crimes being discovered...
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Graduation from Master Trent Ikithon's training program went.. with a slight hitch. One of his three star pupils has a bad time of the final exam.. but things go a little differently this time. This is a different spin on the wizard we know as Caleb Widogast's experience from that point.. because this time he's NOT alone.
One moment, one singular choice could change the fate of Exandria..
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- Part 1 of The World Will Burn
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The Midnight Court by bluebellsandjasper for unfortunatelyevent
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Sep 2025
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The Nein decide to visit the Dynasty a year after their last adventure to Cognouza. Naturally, word gets out and they receive an invitation to the Tasithar Illuminating Shadow Ball, a masquerade ball containing only the most worthy of guests.
At Verin's request, they are to infiltrate the ball and figure out what exactly their host is planning for the night. Essek isn't here with them, but it won't stop Caleb from missing him. Perhaps a mysterious drow following him around can distract him for the night...
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An envisioning of the ever-popular journey Caleb and Essek take to the T-Dock, exploring why Caleb chose Essek to join him, the internal struggle that would have taken place leading up to Caleb’s final decision, and the slow process of healing through a developing relationship.
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At the narrow desk before him, at the centre of the room, sat Essek, straight backed and hands steepled, his form swallowed by the heaps of books and maps about him. His eyes were dark, rimmed with rings of exhaustion, his appearance unusually messy, the traces of finger tracks still visible through his hair.
"Hey," Caleb attempted to sound casual. //You sound like a dunce.//
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Updates planned over the coming few weeks and into September 2025. My goal is to finish the story by C4's release.
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He finally found the shirt in question—dark grey, and he had to admit it was made partially of wool and did not have the softest feel in the world, he had found it in the drawer by touch—and brought it over to the bed. Caleb had fixed himself up and was sitting up and leaning forward, fingers tracing light patterns over the stretched and swollen skin of his belly where it rested heavily on his legs. "Just try it on."
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- Part 33 of one pup, two pup
- Part 41 of 1p2p (posting order)
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Essek hurts.
Essek has always hurt.
His body betrays him at every turn in life
And Essek does not wish for people to see, nor help him, when he hurts. So when the newest professor transfer starts to ask questions , Essek tries to stamp the curiosity down before things get out of hand.
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“I’ve always been lacking in the academic politics department,” Caleb says, “but you seem quite versed in that realm. It will be good to have you on my side.”
Essek Thelyss is a postdoctoral fellow at Rosohna University dealing with his poor health and a recent data breech which sent the physics department reeling. When first year PhD student Caleb Widogast moves in across the street, Essek has to contend not only with Caleb's troubled past but with actions he himself has taken which threaten to destroy a growing bond.