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Before Days End by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Nov 2025
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University is hard enough as it is without having to change campus, dorms, course and country to boot.
When a new student pops up on campus grounds, questions and curious eyes start to trail. As well as rumours.
Will everyone be the same by the end of the year?Updates come every Wednesday <3
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and have you changed your life? by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
13 Nov 2025
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It is a mild night in Nicodranas, and Veth is considering slamming the door in Essek’s face.
He’s wearing a Disguise that she hasn’t seen before and an expression that warns of future vomit. He says, shivering, “Um. Hello. Please help me?”
Veth, who is beginning to wish that she hadn’t answered the door in her skimpiest robe, attempts to surreptitiously cross her arms over her cleavage. She says, remarkably pleasantly, “Are you fucking insane?”
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Essek hurts.
Essek has always hurt.
His body betrays him at every turn in life
And Essek does not wish for people to see, nor help him, when he hurts. So when the newest professor transfer starts to ask questions , Essek tries to stamp the curiosity down before things get out of hand.
He has to stop the curiosity, from both sides, before his patience wears too thin. -
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He thinks maybe it should make him more frightened, that he should worry about the liabilities he has allowed these people to become. It does nothing to temper the joy of being trusted, of being someone worthy of friend. It does nothing to diminish the memory of Caleb’s spellbook in his lap this morning, its owner sound asleep before him; the sweet press of concern behind Jester’s words in his mind the night before as she reached out with sending.
A rabbit walks into a snare. The snare closes around its throat, killing it. What is responsible for its death, the stupidity of the rabbit or the viciousness of the snare’s purpose?
The Shadowhand of the Bright Queen walks into the T-Dock, he thinks, and feels sick.Two months after surviving the ruin of Aeor, Caleb and Essek return to tie up loose ends.
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Lucien regards Essek. “You know I steal things for a living, don’t you? You know I’ve got a few dead men to my name, too?”
“I am aware of these facts, Mr. Tavelle. I considered them to be among your highest qualifications for this job.”
“And yet you came here alone?”
“...Yes?”
Lucien digests this. “Okaaay. Well, how’s the pay?”
“200 gold."
Lucien bursts out laughing. “Nope! Nope. Absolutely not. Do you think I was born last night?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Lemme get this straight.” Lucien leans forward, staring Essek down. “You’re telling me you came to a distant kingdom, arranged to meet a known criminal in a bathhouse, and thought nothing of stripping nude for a parley—but now you’re telling me that you need protection for your meeting with some spook? You’re dangerous enough on your own, my friend. If you’re in the market for a merc, it’s because you are about to walk into some fucked up, unsound, insane shit—and I’m not getting flayed alive and broken on the rack for 200 gold. For 500 gold? Sure, fine, that’ll get you some light flaying, maybe a turn or two on the rack—but not for 200.”
Essek sighs. “Do you prefer it in gold or platinum?”
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The Midnight Court by bluebellsandjasper for unfortunatelyevent
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Nov 2025
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The Nein decide to visit the Dynasty a year after their last adventure to Cognouza. Naturally, word gets out and they receive an invitation to the Tasithar Illuminating Shadow Ball, a masquerade ball containing only the most worthy of guests.
At Verin's request, they are to infiltrate the ball and figure out what exactly their host is planning for the night. Essek isn't here with them, but it won't stop Caleb from missing him. Perhaps a mysterious drow following him around can distract him for the night...
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Coming Back From The Dead Is Not The Same As Coming Back To Life by SmackSkellington2695
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
08 Nov 2025
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There was something seemingly unkillable about Mollymauk Tealeaf...
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Essek has spent the past year in Nicodranas, building a new life in the absence of his lover after asking for a break. Despite the passage of time, he still lacks certainty about the best way to move forward. So how is he supposed to make a decision upon the man's unexpected return?
Or a story about coming together and facing change.
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- Part 1 of Grow Apart to Grow Together
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Graduation from Master Trent Ikithon's training program went.. with a slight hitch. One of his three star pupils has a bad time of the final exam.. but things go a little differently this time. This is a different spin on the wizard we know as Caleb Widogast's experience from that point.. because this time he's NOT alone.
One moment, one singular choice could change the fate of Exandria..
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- Part 1 of The World Will Burn
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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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Second Child, Restless Child by lovett_the_moon for minimusic842
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
16 Oct 2025
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Essek would never admit this to anyone now, but he is a middle child. He is a middle child, even if his sister never stuck around to see what he'd become.
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Essek and Verin Thelyss grew up with an older sister, until they didn't anymore. An exploration of religious and military themes in Critical Role: Exandria, abandonment issues, and complex family relationships, mostly from Essek's point of view.
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- 656
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The Roads We Traveled by littlebosslady7
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
05 Oct 2025
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Lady Vex’ahlia and Lord Percival de Rolo walked many roads along their adventures with the legendary Vox Machina. The stories, romance, and places they explored hadn’t ceased when they expanded their family. The nobles called Whitestone home. However, these two could find comfort and excitement with one another — no matter where they went in Exandria.
For Perc'ahlia Week 2025Series
- Part 90 of D's Critical Role Stories
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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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Endymion Wakes by Ahmose_Inarus for DragonAceSg7
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
02 Oct 2025
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Vax'ildan was devastated to learn that his father had traded in his "malfunctioning" automaton, Percy... that his memory banks had been erased, and he'd been turned in to be... scrapped! Devastated, he ran to his best friend, Gilmore. And there, he learned that this was much bigger than just himself, and his beloved automaton. There, he learned that he and Percy were both the crucial center points of a prophecy that the Revolution was relying on. Percy HAD to be recovered and restored.
Because Vax'ildan IS Pygmalion. And Percy IS Galatea. And EVERYTHING will depend on THEM...
*It recommended that you read Part 1 first
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- Part 2 of Galatea Lives
- Part 2 of Get In Loser, It's Whumptober 2025!
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You're the ire of your father but the other half of me by tangereen
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
01 Oct 2025
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Verin witnesses the consummation of his brother's marriage.
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- Part 1 of Royal Bastard Eadwulf AU
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Verin is shocked to discover that Molly and Caleb are not in fact courting his brother Essek as he has assumed for months. Instead, he hears that Molly and Caleb have become engaged. It explains why Essek has been avoiding them all evening, on the night of the ball that will formalise Verin’s own engagement. But Verin intends to see both his engagement formalised and his brother happy too, once Verin can sort fact from fiction and help his brother see the love that is there before him.
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Essek reflects. Verin reveals a secret.
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In the handful of months that have gone of Essek's first semester at Tidepeak University he's managed to create quite the reputation for himself. His perfect score at the entrance exam already offering some aid in that, plus the perk of rooming by himself in the dorms.
That is until a human man by the name Caleb Widogast seems intent to slot himself into his otherwise mostly solitary world. If not for his intelligence and talent Essek would have outright refused- or is it perhaps the warmth, openness and complexity that makes him want to keep Caleb around?
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"Verin? What's wrong?"
"It gets mixed up. I've seen people ripped in half. You don't even need to see under the helmet to know who it is laying there. You just sort of… know
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- Part 2 of Cat Dads
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While trapped in a rundown health care facility, an Emo Essek reflects on key events in his life. His musings eventually attract the attention of his cellmate.
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