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(If One Could Be Home) They'd Be Already There by DotyTakeThisDown
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Jan 2021
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When Caleb stays in the on-campus apartments, he expects to be alone for winter break. He doesn't expect to run into Essek Thelyss in the laundry room.
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- English
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- 25,820
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- 7/7
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09 Jun 2026
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The war between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty finally comes to an end.
Peace, as delicate and tentative as it is, has been brokered and discussed.
Professor, turned Warmage, Caleb Widogast would be wed, as a political symbol, of the effort being made to extend that peace towards the Dynasty.
To whom, he has no idea, further than they would be Kryn.
He just hopes that he can keep the peace long enough to reach their wedding night.Bookmarked by Sheilusia
04 Apr 2026
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05 Mar 2026
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Caleb can’t sleep.
Not with the scars. Not with the itch. Not with the memories.
Not with Trent Ikithon still living somewhere in his head.
One night, he finds a Twitch stream.
The man behind the screen name ‘LogicalGhost’ is calm, brilliant, and impossible to look away from—playing horror games like they’re puzzles and speaking with a quiet certainty that makes the world feel less overwhelming.
Caleb tells himself it’s just a distraction.
But he keeps coming back.
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01 Mar 2026
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Empire Now by cancaincan
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
24 Jul 2026
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Essek thought he knew the meaning of devotion, but watching Caleb he has now come to understand it. He sees it in the way Caleb operates, in every decision he makes. A clear devotion to his goals and his people and his passions.
When did Essek begin to feel it himself?
For decades Essek has danced with false devotion. False devotion to the Queen, to the Luxon, to his country. Yet, he is beginning to feel that the King of the Empire, Caleb Widogast, is a man he could dedicate a devout devotion to.
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01 Mar 2026
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Be A Good Boy For Me? by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
25 Jun 2026
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Caleb confides in his friend that he's had...curiosities into his line of work.
Mollymauk is more than happy to accommodate and show Caleb the ropes.
Only figuratively (unless he strikes it lucky)
But with the complexities of online sex work, will Caleb be up for the task?Updates come every Friday ;)
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- Part 1 of A Professor and Two Porn-stars
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 41/41
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05 Nov 2025
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Before Days End by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Dec 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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- Part 1 of Longest Night
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05 Nov 2025
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The Mighty Nein have just returned to Rosohna after their latest adventure, and Essek is a little disappointed that Caleb has to spend his first day back replenishing his potions and components with the rest of the party. On the bright side, though, that just gives him some extra time to plan a surprise for when Caleb finally gets home.
(This was originally supposed to be just pure smut, but I wrote most of this half-delirious at like 2am and it ended up being... well, still pure smut, but make it Tender and Emotional and Domestic)
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04 Mar 2025
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Dorian Storm is the second son of the esteemed Wyverwind Royal Family. On the eve of a visit from Lady Keyleth, leader of the Ashari, he is tasked to secure an alliance between them through marrying her. Dorian is aghast at the idea, and things become even more complicated when her handsome guard, Orym, enters the picture. Can Dorian escape his parents fate for him, and follow his heart's true desire? Or will it be crushed under duty to his people?
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23 May 2024
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You Don't Have to Cast the Amber Light by InkDippedFeathers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 May 2024
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'"It’s not a bad job for a person who likes to think. Each day presents new challenges. Each client is a new puzzle to solve," said Caleb
“Do you intend to solve me?”
The man fixed him with a look of such sharp intelligence that Essek was skewered by it.
“I’d like to.”
Essek felt his cheeks darken and his breath catch. He had come into this with no expectations of anything beyond putting up with things until he could make his excuses and then never letting Verin talk him into anything ever again. Now though, he had to know. This man was a fascinating enigma, his own little puzzle.
“Show me.”'
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Essek gets talked into a night out with Verin and his soldier friends. Little did he know they were going to a brothel.- Language:
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06 May 2024
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It is late on the Lucidian Ocean and Caleb's mind is restless. There is so much that needs to be done, so many plans to make, he doesn't have time to dwell on anything else, least of all his feelings.
Of course this is when Essek chooses to visit.
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- English
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- 13,647
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- 1/1
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07 Apr 2024
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love, love is gonna lead you by the hand by MarsBar2019
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Dec 2021
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17 Mar 2024
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A tale as old as time: A historical analysis of Jester Lavorre’s romance novel ‘Delights and Delusions’ by livntext
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
27 Dec 2023
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Jester Lavorre’s most popular novel ‘Delights and Delusions’, the unforgettable love story of Taskhand Isaac Thendris and Professor Christopher Wunderwill, is rarely discussed in the realm of historic accuracy. Written during the Royalist period of Exandria, it reflects the social issues of the time - relationships, war, peace, gender and societal change. But, what most people don’t know, the tale is much more than a well thought out story.
The Cobalt Soul is more than delighted that a new light is shed onto the world-renowned novel by Lavorre, thanks to the most generous contribution of an anonymous donor.
Presenting, for the first time, the Thelyss-Widogast Collection and with that a renewal on the current teachings about ‘Delights and Delusions’.
By Ares Lionett-Nydoorin and Saria Una Thelyss-Widogast
The Valley Archive of the Cobalt Soul, Zadash.
902 PD
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Or: a love story told through it's keepsakes in the appendix of a research paper
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29 Dec 2023
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Caleb is torn. He has been trained to get what he wants from people, and so often he has. But something feels different this time.
Now he is hesitant to trust his own impulses. Is it really just his training kicking in, or does he simply want to spend time with Essek for no ulterior reason?
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- English
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- 31,429
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- 5/5
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13 Dec 2023
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It has been nearly 20 years since Caleb Widogast was laid to rest. A young half-elf living in the reformed town of Shadycreek Run takes his first steps on a path to make a difference in the world. That is, until the nightmarish memories of what came before threaten to burn it all away.
An exploration of identity, grief, love and letting go.
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18 Nov 2023
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Kinktober 2023 : Vox Machina Edition by Anonymous
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
31 Oct 2023
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31 individual oneshots of your favorite Vox Machina characters getting hot and heavy! This is my first year doing Kinktober and any suggestions for chapters or ships is welcome! Alternate Universes (AUs) will be included.
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- English
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- 42,701
- Chapters:
- 31/?
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15 Nov 2023
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At 38 years of age, Caleb has nearly finished his graduate studies at the Academy and is just scraping by with a teaching assistant salary and scholarships. When money gets tighter than is comfortable, he turns to his dear friend Astrid-- now Archmage Beck-- for assistance finding less savory work to tide him over. Caleb is sent to meet Essek, who he initially thinks is just a patron that has very particulate taste in bed partners. What he actually gets is much more complicated.
Tl;dr, the Vampire Essek/(Blood) Sugar Baby Caleb AU literally no one asked for.
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31 Oct 2023
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26 Oct 2023
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the continuous remembrance of a life unlived by livntext
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Aug 2025
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Essek is gone. And Caleb desperately tries to find clues about his whereabouts. But something is wrong and Caleb seems too lost in his grief over Essek's disappearance to catch up with the signs.
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This story is a mystery and a deep dive into a journey of grief at the same time. What choices does one make when losing the person you love most? Not a happy story at first.
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Chapters have specified tags/content warnings in the end notes.Bookmarked by Sheilusia
12 Mar 2023
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the golden thread around your neck whispered visions of my undoing by MarsBar2019
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Mar 2024
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Caleb Widogast does not belong here.
The world of sharp suits, board meetings, and billion dollar budgets is a far cry from Caleb’s preferred domain: the research lab. Where nobody cares about his faded T-shirts and raggedy jeans. But a year of industry experience will look good on his CV, and the hefty pay bump wouldn’t hurt either. How hard could a secretary gig be?
What he finds behind the glittering edifice of Auriga, Wildemount’s leading name in arcane technology, is CEO Essek Thelyss, who maintains his domain with an acid tongue and an iron fist. It’s difficult not to find him intriguing, this handsome, guarded, brilliant man. It’s even more difficult not to want to please him.
Caleb knows to keep it professional, though. Working late nights together at the office and lingering glances here and there don’t cross the boundaries of propriety.
That is, until they do.
Or: the one where Essek Thelyss loses focus and has a consensual workplace relationship.
Updates weekly on Mondays.
E-rated chapters: Ch. 4, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 22-23, 26, 32, 38
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- 191,412
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- 45/?
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11 Mar 2023