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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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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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    07 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
    They have to take you in.’

    ‘I should have called it
    Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’

    —"The Death of a Hired Man," Robert Frost


    When running stops working, the Blooming Grove is where Caleb runs to.

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    31 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 67

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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.

    COMPLETE as of 9/6/26

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    22 Jan 2026

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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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    15 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 44

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    You never really know a person until you live with them.

    Caleb comes to stay with Veth and Yeza while preparing for Trent Ikithon's trial.

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    24 Aug 2025