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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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“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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these violent delights by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Aug 2021
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He had planned meticulously every detail of the theft of the beacons. He had arranged so carefully his exchange with the Assembly, their resources and the research he could not perform for his access. But the Scourger they sent to keep him in line, making subtle demands and subtler promises, he was not part of Essek's plan. He threatened to drag him in deeper than Essek had ever intended to go. He just has yet to decide whether he'll regret it.
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- Part 1 of ties that bind
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Bren Ermendrud, Annex to Archmage Ikithon, meets a curious drow spellcaster the Martinet is keeping in his towers.
Then he forgets and meets him all over again.
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- Part 1 of conformable as other household cats
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Essek of the Mighty Nine has more than he could ever deserve after the harm he caused when he fled his home: he had his friends, his freedom, and now status, as one of the new 'Heroes of the Empire'. With that status comes privileges, like finally managing to get access to the Soltryce Academy library.
That's where he meets the mysterious and charming Caleb Widogast.
Or a take on what if Essek had taken Caleb's place in the m9
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- Part 3 of Give the Lie
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ties that bind by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Jan 2023
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A body is a body is a mutually assured chess piece in a game Thelyss started playing well before Bren was brought into it, and one he’s sure will continue long past when he’s taken out of it. At least that’s what Essek thinks this is.
Bren knows better.
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Two decades have passed since Vecna's rise to Godhood, and Vox Machina's answering punch in the teeth. Life has returned to normal. More or less. There's a new generation to look after, now, but Tal'Dorei may just need a little more help from some of its greatest protectors, even if most of them ARE retired, relatively speaking.. because there's trouble brewing in Exandria, and the Mighty Nein cannot handle it, alone!
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- Part 2 of Ruins and Romance
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A Shadowgast evil AU (in progress).
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“Finally,” a woman grumbles.
Fjord pauses in his tracks. He forces his eyes open.
Sitting at the chipped and stained table in his kitchen— and it takes him a second to remember their names— are Astrid and Eadwulf.
They’re dressed in dark leathers, dotted with pockets and wearing utility belts filled with spell components. Eadwulf’s sword hangs in its scabbard, slung across the back of the chair. They’re drinking his tea.
“Given that you’re a sailor, I expected you to be awake earlier,” Astrid says, making direct eye contact. There’s an undercurrent of disappointment to her tone, like she’s rolling her eyes.
“And I thought you shaved everywhere,” Eadwulf adds. His eyes are not on Fjord’s face.
Fjord pulls Jester's tiny pink housecoat closed over his hips.
“Get dressed, we’re behind schedule already,” Astrid orders.or
Fjord is recruited for a mission. Strange times make for strange bedfellows.
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A Volsturckers' Revenge by A_Murder_of_crows_going_to_seven_eleven
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Mar 2024
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Caleb is kidnapped and tortured by a Volstrucker.
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The Empire is winning the war. In the wake of his master's death, Volstrucker Bren ascended to Archmage of Civil Influence, but he's been secretly undermining the Empire by feeding intelligence to the Mighty Nein, a group of adventurers fighting for peace. When his rival and friend the Shadowhand is captured, Bren acts on the only idea that will spare a Kryn politician from execution: claiming him as a war prize.
Bren and Essek are forced to perform a fake politican/concubine relationship, including all the tension and jingoism it entails, while taking advantage of their circumstances to spy on and steal from the court around them. Bren may wield the leash, but Essek has cards up his sleeve, and even so, Bren fears hurting Essek almost as much as Essek fears losing Bren. Their mutual trepidation must graduate to mutual trust — maybe even love — if they have any hope of surviving the lie they started.
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The sexual tension between Scourger Bren Aldric Ermendrud and the Traitorous Shadowhand Essek Thelyss snaps.
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mHHH MHHH MHHHH DELICIOUS
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An exploration of the time spent in the ancient ruins of Aeor between two certain wizards, and their family.
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So fucking good. OMG. I was on a critical role break and come back to find this first thing?! I was not prepared. I am blown away. My mind is melted and so is my heart. Epic doesn't begin to cover it.
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Aeor is for Lovers, just a couple more than usual, 900,000+ words
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'Til There Comes A Day (When We Sell Our Souls Away) by IndigoNight
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
02 Oct 2025
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Essek swallows hard, struggling against the conflicting signals that his mind and body are giving him. “And you would have me kneel and grovel at the feet of your king instead,” he says, managing to keep his voice level and tone acidic through sheer force of will.
Caleb smiles, a flash of sharp white teeth, and a low, warm chuckle leaves his throat. “King Dwendel has enough sycophants,” he dismisses easily. “But, if you ask very nicely, perhaps you can kneel at my feet instead.”
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- Part 2 of Sing This Corrosion To Me
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and if that was me, then who was i? by DesertLily for wanderingBasilisk
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Jul 2022
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Caleb Widogast had only ever been a disguise Bren built himself to wear; a persona to walk the Empire unknown. What he hadn’t counted on was the chaotic group of adventurers he would meet along the way
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What happens when the lines between Caleb and Bren begin to blur?
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- Part 6 of Gift Fics 2021/22
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Not many scourgers find their way into the Dungeon of Penance - they are quite good at what they do, after all, and those who weren't good enough to complete their mission and escape were usually good enough to take a bite into their nightshade capsule sewn into their uniform.
it wasn't every day that the shadowhand got to interrogate a scourger.
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- Part 1 of Looming Shadows
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