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“You accused me of treating this like a game. I am sorry if I’ve led you to believe that it is only a game—though I won't deny that part of it is.” Bren gives a disarming smile. “My life is either games or murder, after all.”
“Or mail fraud,” Thelyss says dryly, not even a little disarmed.
“The mail fraud is a sort of game as well.”
A sigh. “Is this your way of telling me that you intend to continue playing?”
Bren smiles again, sharper. “If you would let me.”(In which Bren Aldric Ermendrud decides to seduce the Shadowhand and finds that the best way to convince someone to be vulnerable with you is to be vulnerable in turn.)
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- Part 1 of aBiA
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23 Feb 2026
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Temporal Shunt (The Art of Vanishing in Place) by Inanerial
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 May 2025
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Essek's stomach whined at him like it too had been cast back into the memories where a grumble would have been too forward. The aching hollowness felt somehow reassuring, even though it was unpleasant. It was a little bit of home—and what has home been for him in recent years but a dull ache?
Essek tries to undo the tangled web of ambition, guilt, and alienation that brought him to steal the beacons. He is, after all, his own punishment.
(Detailed ED warnings in the notes of the first chapter)
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18 Feb 2026
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There is so much they should discuss first, before diving headlong into… whatever this is. But Eiselcross is cold, and they’re both so tired of being alone. It can’t really be as simple as that, can it?
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02 Feb 2026
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Two Hearts, Born to Run by seeingreverse
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Jan 2026
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In a shocking display, the unfamiliar drow began to speak Zemnian: “Entschuldigung, aber mein Zemnisisch ist nicht gut genug für dieses wichtige Gespräch." He took one step closer, in small increments as if approaching a wild animal. “Bren.”
“How-” His throat caught as his heart seized. Fuck. He’d already slipped up. Master Ikithon was going to be furious. “No, you have the wrong-”
“No need to lie.” The elf lifted his palm. His violet eyes caught Bren’s frantic gaze, and he visibly came to a decision. “Bren, you are suffering from acute psychic temporal displacement. I highly suspect it is due to a magical experiment we just performed.”
“Amnesia,” he translated. “You- You’re saying I have amnesia. Memory loss.”
(Bren Ermundrud wakes up twenty years later and finds a Kryn drow living in his home)
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31 Jan 2026
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Caleb will remember, with perfect, terrible clarity, the exact moment that Essek dies.
It cannot end like this. It will not end like this.
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28 Jan 2026
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He knew he was doomed. There was a sharpness in her gaze that only appeared when she was gearing herself up for battle. Tempers flared. And maybe… maybe he wanted to be caught. Maybe he wanted it to be his own people who decided his fate. Maybe he was just… Tired.
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- Part 1 of Lacunaverse
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27 Jan 2026
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altogether, in sickness and health by ivelostmyspectacles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Nov 2023
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Something different nags at him, different to the feelings brought about from reverie last night. He ignores it, hauling himself out of bed to go brush his teeth and wash his face, and have something substantial for breakfast. He is old enough to know his… tells, in terms of health, but he is still young enough to be stubborn about coming down with anything.
It is so rare to be ill, anyway. It can’t be anything.
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- Part 4 of altogether infinite, possibilities
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26 Dec 2025
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altogether infinite, possibilities by ivelostmyspectacles
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
26 Feb 2026
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fics involving or expanding upon the main fic altogether infinite, possibilities
all in the same universe, but they don't have to be read in any certain order (I mean, read aip first but) in fact, the timeline isn't linear at all in most cases since they were all written at different points 😅
semi compliant to a point with the campaign! does not include any lore from the mighty nein animated
Follow along on my dreamwidth for further in depth discussion of the AIP AU!
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22 Dec 2025
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Seth Domade had many good qualities. He was human and, as such, could traverse Rexxentrum with ease. He had some unremarkable magical capabilities, so it was not odd that he might, say, use Comprehend Languages to read a book or cast Prestidigitation to clean the muck from his boots.
Seth Domade, however, was not a powerful wizard. He did not wield spells that could disrupt the gravity of an entire street or send his attackers flying into a wall. Seth Domade was a quiet, unassuming man. He spent most of his days editing volumes in the Cobalt Soul’s library, and he looked the part.
Around the time the silence manacles clapped around his wrists, Essek realized he should have dropped the facade of Seth Domade earlier.Series
- Part 6 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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02 Dec 2025
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It’s all part of the lifestyle, of course. He knows that much.
That said, being kidnapped off an open street and held for ransom is admittedly a little overblown. And while Dorian is all for entirely new experiences, this one doesn’t quite make his top ten.
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06 Nov 2025
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After they explore Aeor together, Caleb asks Essek to move in. It takes Essek ... A while to figure out exactly what he means.
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05 Nov 2025
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Caleb goes back to the Soltryce Academy to finally relearn what he lost in his year in Vergesson. It is the last place in the world he wants to be, but with Nott at his side and his ability to turn into a dragon still hidden, he might just survive it.
He is not, he discovers, the only one with secrets.
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A rewrite of Wishing Coin
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- Part 3 of Shoulder the Sky
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25 Oct 2025
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"It’s a beautiful day at the Soltryce Academy—the sky is vibrant and the trees rustle with the gentlest of winds as Caleb begins his impromptu Transmutation lecture outside. From the building on the edge of the grounds he hears a muffled bell tolling for fifth period. Somewhere in the distance, a student begins to whistle.
At that moment, Caleb feels at peace.
At that moment, a Purple Worm bursts forth from the soil directly in front of him, and all of his plans for a pleasant afternoon are promptly dashed."
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Caleb and Essek have finally settled down - more or less. While the beloved and somewhat eccentric Professor Widogast is busy inciting small student-scale riots and teaching tiny wizards morals, Essek spends his days lounging around the house, drinking wine and experimenting with the exotic concept of 'cooking his own meals'. They are pretty sure life is great - until two pre-teen assassins crash-land into the middle of the Soltryce Academy and demand the former Shadowhand be surrendered to their custody. What are the two internationally in/famous mages to do? The answer will shock absolutely no one.- Language:
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25 Sep 2025
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22 Sep 2025
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Six months ago, Beau adopted a teenager who loves the Cobalt Soul, but can't stand her. Ten minutes ago, Caleb accidentally summoned his own teenage self into his living room. So you know, they're both going though some shit.
At least Caleb's got experience befriending novice monks with attitude problems. And Beau's got experience befriending Caleb.
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29 Aug 2025
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babe, there's something magic about you by hoper_dreamer
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jun 2021
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"Two very complicated, broken people finally able to find love after healing as individuals can take time..."
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What happens when two wizards quietly, deeply in love with each other move in together.
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20 Aug 2025
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the breath before the phrase by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Sep 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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11 Aug 2025
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He recognized the purpose of the wrap fairly quickly, thinking of the times in recent years where he had to wrap his own injured joints while unable to afford a health potion. And when the Shadowhand graciously taught him a couple dunamancy spells in exchange for future favors, this revelation led to Caleb piecing together the purpose of the metal around each of Essek’s fingers, Caleb watching them closely as the other caster demonstrated his spell. They were splints.
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A story about Essek having EDS, and Caleb wanting to help him manage it.Bookmarked by Its_JJay
07 Aug 2025
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When the Beast opened its mouth to speak, Essek was faced with a mouthful of canine, wolfish fangs and teeth.
“I did warn you.”
Essek was utterly petrified. The small, primal part of him which flinched from flames and the edges of cliffs had woken and declared the thing standing before him a threat. More than a threat, a nightmare.Essek, long having retreated into exile, is trapped by an obscure curse and forced to shelter in a strange isolated manor. His only hope of escape is in the hands of the apparent lord of the manor, a Beast who is both charming and repellent in equal measure.
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01 Aug 2025
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The Mighty Six (not so aptly named), found themselves in a tight situation. In their attempt to free Yeza and Luc Brenatto from the Kryn Dynasty where they'd been taken (and wasn't that a shock, finding out their alcoholic goblin friend is actually a married halfling with a child), they were captured and taken for interrogation, when they encounter what might be the least expected person they could imagine.
Dawntreader Caleb Widogast.
It's not every day that you see a human in the Bright Queen's court.
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- Part 2 of Looming Shadows
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31 Jul 2025