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bearing us forth in laboured pains of love by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Jan 2026
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"Who are you!?"
He expected nothing.
Instead, he received more than he ever bargained for.
I am the Luxon. And you are my Champion.
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14 Jan 2026
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Office AU for The Mighty Nein.
Essek is a fairly new Accountant for Cerberus. He has to contend with the management who keep trying to scrimp and save while his colleagues are desperately just trying to do their jobs and survive. His main issue is the Support guy, Caleb, who seems to know more than he lets on.
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13 Jan 2026
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Empire Now by cancaincan
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
13 Jan 2026
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Essek thought he knew the meaning of devotion, but watching Caleb he has now come to understand it. He sees it in the way Caleb operates, in every decision he makes. A clear devotion to his goals and his people and his passions.
When did Essek begin to feel it himself?
For decades Essek has danced with false devotion. False devotion to the Queen, to the Luxon, to his country. Yet, he is beginning to feel that the King of the Empire, Caleb Widogast, is a man he could dedicate a devout devotion to.
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13 Jan 2026
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Amaranth Mauve by SimpleSoupsandAppleTarts
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
18 Jan 2026
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Widomauk, but make it Snow White.
Updates Weekly.
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- Part 2 of Mighty Nein Fairy Tales
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12 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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09 Jan 2026
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Caleb moves closer into his space and holds his shivering arms tightly, and rubs some warmth into his shoulders. “Essek, you can feel it, can’t you?”
Caleb noticed it as he left the cottage, once he consciously felt for the sensation. Or rather, a lack thereof. Typically, magic rushes around him like the wind itself, or an ambient scent, or music. It appeals to a different and entirely unnamable sense though, of course. He can feel it, touch it, and manipulate it. It is so constant that it becomes subconscious and beyond notice.
“You can feel it, Essek. It is gone.”Peace is a precious thing, and a fragile thing too. When the unexpected finally strikes Essek's delicate new life, he and Caleb are left adrift and alone and very, very, vulnerable. What are two wizards without magic to do?
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09 Jan 2026
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and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips by Bagheera
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
20 Jan 2026
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Caleb's amulet breaks before he ever meets Nott and he runs to the one part of Exandria where Volstruckers might not follow. Meanwhile, Essek Thelyss is still considering how best to commit treason and heresy.
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08 Jan 2026
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Caleb built a routine for himself when he started his higher studies: classes at the University, working part time at the library, and recharging in the dorm with Mollymauk and Fjord.
Slowly, new things got introduced into that mundane living: cuddling with Mollymauk, Fjord spending most nights at Jester’s place, falling asleep holding Mollymauk, and ultimately being kissed by him.
Now, after a year of falling into a new comfortable order beside his new partner, Caleb’s normal is thrown off again, by one Essek Thelyss.
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07 Jan 2026
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“You know,” Caleb says to the ceiling, “we will have to tell the Nein eventually.”
Essek tenses against him. “Tell them what, exactly?”
“That we are… I don't know. Whatever this is.”
[In which the assistant professor of civil law at Soltryce Law School reserves a few hours of his Conthsen evenings for the youngest partner of Kryn Mirimm Thelyss & Associates, and still finds himself wanting more than he should.]
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07 Jan 2026
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Thelyss Cat Café by GrellSutcliff for doggoswoofwoof
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Jan 2026
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Essek Thelyss opened a cat café in the Empire to spite his mother. That much had been the basis of his move. Changing from being the first son to a ruling den of the Dynasty, to waking up at 4am to ensure that the baked goods were ready to go in ovens, and the cats had enough play and treats before customers came in.
There was just this one customer who visited every day that kept catching his eye, although they didnt speak too much to one another.
He wanted to rectify that, somehow.Bookmarked by Kitanda
06 Jan 2026
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Caleb Widogast returns a stolen Luxon Beacon to the Kryn Dynasty knowing it will cost him safety—and possibly his freedom.
What he does not expect is to be seen.
As judgment unfolds in the Bright Queen’s court and Trent Ikithon refuses to release his claim, Caleb finds himself under the watch of Essek Thelyss, the Dynasty’s Shadow Hand. What begins as supervision becomes conversation, then trust, then something quieter and far more dangerous: understanding.
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06 Jan 2026
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Longest Night by GrellSutcliff
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
13 Jan 2026
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30 Dec 2025
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A love story written in late-night shopping at the gas station, discussing cat treats and applying a PhD in mechanical engineering to find a perfect design for a cat wall.
(Just two nerds in love with their cats. And maybe with each other too)
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23 Dec 2025
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The Line That’s Still Holding You Spellbound by TheAverageStandard
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
19 Jan 2026
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Newly appointed head archivist Essek Thelyss spends his time in the basement of the Zadash division Cobalt Soul Institute, recording statements of “supernatural” and “unexplained” happenings.
Work is boring, and his coworkers are mildly insane. Not for long though! Things will absolutely get worse.
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It’s not necessary to know anything about The Magnus Archives to read, though it contains major spoilers for The Magnus Archives.
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23 Dec 2025
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By Nights Call by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Dec 2025
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Part 2 of 'Before Days End"!
Essek thought that his year at University would have been hard enough, being a new student, and learning an entirely new language. But then he had gone and fallen in love, defied his mothers plan for his life, and then gotten himself taken. He didnt know where he was, darkness around him, hearing obscured. He was scared and confused, feeling hands grabbing and pulling him.
He wanted Caleb.
And Caleb was on his way to try and save his boyfriend.Series
- Part 2 of Longest Night
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19 Dec 2025
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He wasn't supposed to wake up. Not supposed to be any more than a puppet, an enthralled spawn under the control of Master Ikithon. But now the strings were cut. He was free, so long as he could remain out of his master's grasp. But where could he find safety, when his master's colleagues puppeteered every aspect of his nation?
In his youth, Bren was taught of the vampire queen of Xhorhas, where blood was power, and the Midnight Queen and her three vampiric consorts ruled with an iron fist.
It wasn't perfect. It was terrifying. It was most likely propaganda, exaggerated beyond the realms of truth.
But it was somewhere his master couldn't touch.
That was something.
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17 Dec 2025
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home is where your teeth sink by strangersea
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
30 Dec 2025
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Caleb, once a promising vampire hunter, is on the run from his past. When he stumbles into a carnival and a charming tiefling offers him temporary shelter, Caleb accepts. Caleb has his own secrets, but so does Mollymauk, and Caleb's past is hunting them both.
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17 Dec 2025
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Ever since the Sour Nest, Caleb has been invisible. When his search for an explanation in Zadash yields no answers, he and the rest of the Mighty Nein continue on regardless. Fortunately, there is one person who can see and hear him: Molly, who can also join Caleb in the space of invisibility if he so chooses.
When Avantika turns out to be just a little bit more unhinged and a little bit more trigger happy than expected, Molly and Caleb decide to stow away in the Squalleater’s hold to support their friends in secret. Their nightly sharing of a small, makeshift bed is complicated by the feelings they are each slowly developing for each other.
Although Caleb and Molly have found a personal oasis, the relationship between Avantika and the rest of the Mighty Nein is growing ever-more turbulent. Will Caleb and Molly be able to work out their feelings for each other, save their friends — and when the unthinkable happens and Uk’otoa is freed, save the ocean itself?
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29 Nov 2025
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When Caleb came back to Soltryce after many years, he didn't expect to meet his former friends again. Nether did he expect to meet a Drow from the Kryn Dynasty in his Transmutation class.
What started off as a stupid bet of getting close to Essek, endet in something unexpected and real.
But of course not without heartbreak and a lot of misunderstandings.Bookmarked by Kitanda
25 Nov 2025
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Caleb should go back inside.
Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time.
When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can just feel the tiny rise and fall of its ribcage.
Damnit.
(It's a Shadowgast modern-with-magic vampire!AU)
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22 Nov 2025