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It is a rare evening when Essek does not have any visitors. Tonight, he has time to rest, and to rouse himself early enough to watch the dawn break. Early enough to catch sight of a familiar head of rough red hair in the window across the street. Early enough that the rest of the world is still asleep, and Essek can be only Essek.
He raises his hand, waving bashfully. “Good morning.”
(In which a shop assistant teaches a courtesan a touch of magic, and a courtesan teaches a shop assistant the magic of touch.)
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29 Jul 2026
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THELYSS: I think I could have floated beside him in stasis forever, ignoring the obvious. Once he offered the precise object of my desire, which I had been concealing from even myself, I panicked.
INTERVIEWER: And what did you say to him?
THELYSS: We fought about it. We had to. In the Nein, it is prerequisite for doing anything.
WIDOGAST: In the end, it was about fear, as it always is.
— The Mighty Nein's rocket to fame involves more drama, mystery, abuse, sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll than any columnist can resist, but media accounts until now have been mostly secondhand. Tabloids and vultures run with the facts in the opposite direction, smearing half-truths and outrageous accusations onto any blank space, taking silence for admission.
It definitely doesn’t help that Thelyss admitted to stealing the Mouthpiece of the Luxon on national telellusion.
The following timeline contextualizes Widogast and Thelyss’s individual music careers, their collaborations, and the events surrounding a) the crimes of Volstrucker Records CEO Trent Ikithon, and b) Ikithon and Martinet Ludinus Da’leth’s undiscussed roles in the Mouthpiece of the Luxon Scandal.
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13 Jun 2026
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In an attempt to get information from a potential source for Caleb and Beau's investigation into the Cerberus Assembly, Essek gets into a bind. Caleb talks him through it.
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03 Jun 2026
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“Ah, dove,” said the umavi, using the Old Drow word for dove that also meant dear, also meant, less flatteringly, game pigeon. As a child, Essek had found the very existence of a word for a surface bird in Old Drow amusing, perplexing, until Deirta had informed him that in her youth the high houses had reared doves by hand in the Underdark, and fed them to their matriarchs. “What is to be done about you?”
-Essek has always been hungry. It is fitting then, that hungry is how he will die.
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28 May 2026
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pines and needles by qigiined
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types
29 Jun 2022
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“He is an owlet,” Qui-Gon corrects. “A Stewjoni. They are tawny with spots. His genes are quite affected, even more than it appears on the surface.”
Feemor loves his master, but he does not care. He would like to hold the chick now, please.
“Owlet, Feemor.”
Chick chick chick chick chick chick chick, please.
(Prequel to to take flight wherein Obi-Wan is an owl-person who requires enrichment.)
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12 May 2026
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It used to be if you don't like it you could leave by thought
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Oct 2021
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In which the humans do a politics, the Xhorhasians learn about potato's, and everyone decides five hundred years of living in disguise and on the run isn't actually a great life plan, Essek.
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01 May 2026
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In Exandria, the dead don't stop. They continue in the outer planes, in whatever afterlife they've earned. And from the outer planes, they can watch the living.
Una Ermendrud watches her son. She tries to understand.
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01 Apr 2026
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“Grab a pillow for your neck.” Verin replied as he tossed his pants and small clothes aside, sitting up on his knees. “Please.” It was added after Zathael sent him a glare. Sapphire flushed to navy as Zathael understood what Verin wanted, quickly grabbing hold of a pillow to settle beneath his head and neck for support, a rumble of a purr coming from him as Verin scooted closer on his knees. “Good boy,” he praised, shifting to straddle Zathael’s shoulders first. “Remember how this works?
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25 Feb 2026
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Ludinus and Essek are two characters with a remarkable amount of parallels. Putting them in a room together has disastrous results.
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28 Jan 2026
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“You know,” Caleb says to the ceiling, “we will have to tell the Nein eventually.”
Essek tenses against him. “Tell them what, exactly?”
“That we are… I don't know. Whatever this is.”
[In which the assistant professor of civil law at Soltryce Law School reserves a few hours of his Conthsen evenings for the youngest partner of Kryn Mirimm Thelyss & Associates, and still finds himself wanting more than he should.]
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22 Jan 2026
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20 Jan 2026
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Beginning is Easy, Persisting is an Art by TromboneTaxiDriver
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
13 Jan 2026
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In which the rescue of a cat from the Ermendrud family home changes the course of history. But perhaps not as much as one would expect.
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When a curious band of mercenaries called The Mighty Nein appear in the center of the brewing conflict between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty, Archmage of Civil Influence Trent Ikithon assigns his most prized pupil the task of infiltrating their ranks to gain insight into their moves and motives. To win the group's trust, Bren Aldric Ermendrud adopts the identity of Caleb Widogast, an ex-scourger on the run from his former master.Bookmarked by Scaapegrace
19 Jan 2026
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you hear me (howling outside your door) by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Oct 2022
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As Essek is ushered off of the podium, hands and heart shaking in adolescent rage, he makes eye contact with Ludinus, standing just outside of the royal box. His paper-like skin marks him as other. He raises one eyebrow.
It is a challenge.
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02 Jan 2026
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Genevieve Lavorre, aged eighteen, chances upon a collection of Dynasty poetry in a used bookshop in Nicodranas and decides on a whim that she wants to write to the author.
[Or: how Jester Lavorre and Essek Thelyss fall in love well before they even meet.]
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18 Dec 2025
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It's another post-campaign Professor Widogast shenanigans fic, but this time in the format of Caleb's Rate My Professor page because I saw a joke that I couldn't get out of my head
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01 Dec 2025
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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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30 Nov 2025
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Caught in the Cerberus Assembly's web, Essek fights to maintain his agency.
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- Part 2 of conformable as other household cats
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27 Nov 2025
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and it cut me sharp (hearing you'd gone away) by weareallstardustfallen
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Dec 2022
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It was a bit depressing, Verin mused, that the letter sitting on his desk terrified him more than all the horrors of Bazzoxan.
Verin, his mother had written. Essek is dead.
Verin read it again.
Essek is dead.
Or: Verin's brother is dead, and no one can tell him why. The only way to get answers is to track down the Mighty Nein.
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23 Nov 2025
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Verin had always been able to read Essek like an open book, until the day he couldn’t. Until the day twinspeak seemed to fail him, and Essek was speaking an entirely different language to him.
Or, they are not quite new souls, not quite consecuted, and Verin feels Essek’s disappearance a lot more than anyone else.
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- Part 1 of two, be one
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23 Nov 2025
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if all the shadows disappeared by the_littlest_goblin
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Aug 2020
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Crushed under the pressure of expectation, perfect son and perfect student Essek Thelyss has turned to an unusual outlet for letting off steam: selling drugs. A chance encounter in the course of his work brings him into the orbit of 'The Mighty Nein,' a group of misfits just as fucked up as he is, including his longtime academic rival, Caleb Widogast.
Friends are a foreign concept to Essek, but these weirdos are prepared to give him a crash course, and just in time. As Essek begins digging himself deeper into the criminal underworld of their small hometown, the Mighty Nein may be the only ones who can pull him back out.
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20 Nov 2025