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Thjazi Fang is dead.
Thjazi is dead, Hal’s home is bustling, and lurking beneath it all, in the glances Azune keeps throwing him and the desperation with which Thaisha is getting drunk, is the utter fucking failure of their combined attempt to write a different ending to the Epic Tale of Thjazi Fang.
or: as guests and strangers make their way into and out of Hal’s home, he reflects.
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in my thoughts (and far away) by SongOfWizardry for awaytobeunshaken
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Jul 2025
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FRIDA is never not thinking about Fresh Cut Grass.
It’s like… a half-remembered dream that follows them around all day; like the rousing jig they heard a snippet of in a tavern on their journey to Eiselcross that they haven’t encountered since but can’t forget; like the scent of woodsmoke clinging to the fabric of their coat for days, faint and inescapable.
[or: a conversation between FRIDA and Ashton at the Spire by Fire.]
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Light, but this is embarrassing. He is a heretic, he is a traitor and a Beacon-thief, he was once the fucking Shadowhand of the Bright Queen, and now here he is, in a small House of Guidance in the Light-damned City of Beasts, crying. The closest thing to a show of faith he’s managed in decades. If only his Umavi could see him now.
or: Essek Thelyss takes an ill-advised trip into the Dynasty, and introspects.
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Caleb Widogast is figuring his life out. He has friends now, a job he cares about, and can even – on a good day – have fifteen Bunsen burners turned on in his classroom, and not get pulled into the flames. What he does not have, is any experience training other teachers.
Essek Thelyss is a prodigy, one of the Marble Tomes' foremost researchers, and the son of one of the Dynasty's most influential families—he is certainly not a teacher of children. And yet, somehow, he has ended up at a school on the other side of the border, with a list of publications as tall as he is and no classroom experience.
All he knows when he arrives is information gleaned from the school's website, and the name of the person who will be training him—Caleb Widogast.Or: a Mighty Nein and/or Shadowgast Teaching AU.
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mask of many faces by SongOfWizardry for Operafloozy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Jul 2023
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Long after the Xhorhaus, a (disguised) Essek runs into an (undisguised) Expositor Dairon.
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nine (nein) ficlets, to celebrate the end of campaign 2, and to celebrate the Mighty Nein finally fulfilling their name! mostly just self-indulgent fluff.
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a series of one-shots following the empire siblings and their relationship in a modern au
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we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts by vagabondfirelily
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Oct 2021
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In. Out. In. Out.
Essek’s chest rises and falls in perfectly timed intervals. An artificial design of a foolproof mechanism.
Caleb clutches a limp hand in his, two fingers on the pulse point, counting the flickery heartbeats. The gentle hiss and beeping of the machines hum a ghostly lullaby.
He keeps his eyes fixed on the moving ribcage. There’s a heart there, tucked safely under the flesh and bones, with which Caleb has chosen to leave his own.
Inhale. Exhale.
He needs the reminder.
Essek is still breathing.
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18 Jun 2026
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we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts by vagabondfirelilySummary:
In. Out. In. Out.
Essek’s chest rises and falls in perfectly timed intervals. An artificial design of a foolproof mechanism.
Caleb clutches a limp hand in his, two fingers on the pulse point, counting the flickery heartbeats. The gentle hiss and beeping of the machines hum a ghostly lullaby.
He keeps his eyes fixed on the moving ribcage. There’s a heart there, tucked safely under the flesh and bones, with which Caleb has chosen to leave his own.
Inhale. Exhale.
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room to grow by firefright, KmacKatie (kmackatie), lakrisrot (enheduane), mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), VillainIHaveDoneThyMother
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
14 Dec 2025
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"Every room is the sex room."
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28 Apr 2026
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They do not talk about the clone buried in the garden. Essek buried the materials and cast the spell when Caleb was out on a particularly dangerous venture with Beau. He did not do much to conceal what he had done, only shifted the picnic table over the disturbed ground. Caleb raised an eyebrow when he returned. They were not so rich that he had not noticed a certain sum of diamonds missing; he could guess what had occurred.
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- Part 6 of Exercises & Drabbles
Bookmarked by SongOfWizardry
18 Feb 2026
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Strange Roots by InanerialSummary:
They do not talk about the clone buried in the garden. Essek buried the materials and cast the spell when Caleb was out on a particularly dangerous venture with Beau. He did not do much to conceal what he had done, only shifted the picnic table over the disturbed ground. Caleb raised an eyebrow when he returned. They were not so rich that he had not noticed a certain sum of diamonds missing; he could guess what had occurred.
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It is still cold, and will probably get a little bit colder through the night. It is awkward, but… from a logical standpoint… he might be used to roughing it but Essek– no matter what he says– is not. So he worries.
“Um, this might be a bit… forward,” he says shortly, “but… if we were to sleep close together, it would help us keep warm throughout the night, too.”
Essek’s hands pause in smoothing his bedding.
Bookmarked by SongOfWizardry
04 Feb 2026
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things no ears have heard, things no eyes have seen by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Dec 2025
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“One thing Caleb had learned was that Essek’s moods were often sudden, and vicious, and shocking even to him— and often, nothing to do with Caleb at all, squabbling over components and a jar of orange juice in stasis aside.”
Or, Una Ermendrud and Deirta Thelyss continue to haunt the narrative even after the world has settled.
Bookmarked by SongOfWizardry
26 Jan 2026