20 Works in shadowgast-week-2's Shadowgast Week 2025 (Critical Role)
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“You mean to train me like a dog, don’t you?” he grumbled after the cantrip expired for the fifth time. “Rewarding me with treats for each task completed.”
“Well, if you're going to criticize—” Essek sniffed, making a show of getting up to leave.
“No, no, it was not a criticism!” Laughing, Caleb threw up his hands in mock surrender. “I promise, I will be a good boy from now on!”
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And when I can see//the points of Cassiopeia//I curse the skies, where I can't be by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Jun 2025
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Dr. Essek Thelyss is tired of running.
His body aches, his mind refuses to settle down, and worse still - the discovery in the stars he strives for is just beyond his reach.
That is, until a chance encounter with a lonely professor of advanced mathematics changes everything.
Maybe now, he can find it.
Maybe now, he can rest.
Maybe now, he can love.(a comfy modern-ish AU involving the stars, their mysteries, and the way they can pull lost souls together)
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A sweet stolen moment, a kiss under the raining petals, two figures finding each other behind kaleidoscopic glass.
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On a wall inside the tower there is a scoreboard. It reads:
Successful Eiselcross Teleportations
Caleb: 27
Essek: 27
Three years of travel, and it’s still a dead tie.
Time for a bit of a friendly competition.Series
- Part 7 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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Day 6 doors are now closed by catseyesnetp120, dragonsden (catseyesnetp120)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Jun 2025
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Summary: essek chooses to break the cycle of trauma by closing a door, cutting the ribbon and finally breathing easy again.
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- Part 7 of Sun and moon eyes (shadowgast week 2025)
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how do we atone for the secrets we've been shown by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jun 2025
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"Two years ago, if someone had told the Shadowhand that one day he would be walking the streets of Rexxentrum perfectly at ease, he would have thought it was a roundabout way of saying the Dynasty would eventually win the war. Yet now there was no war, and Essek, wearing another man’s face, was buying flowers. He felt oddly at ease on these foreign streets and even more at ease doing his own errands. The old him would have felt neither."
During a shopping trip in Rexxentrum, Essek is suddenly faced with the fact that he cannot outrun his past. With Caleb at his side, for once, Essek does not run. Instead, he returns to his towers in Rosohna to retrieve his notes and relive his past. There, Essek is forced to come to terms with how far he has come and how much further he has to go.
Sadowgast week day 7: eyes
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- Part 2 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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After months of subterranean exploration, Caleb and Essek emerge from the depths of Aeor out onto the fields of Eiselcross.
Unbeknownst to Essek, Caleb has carefully timed their reappearance to coincide perfectly with the breaking of a new dawn.Series
- Part 6 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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Essek and Caleb realize the foods of their childhoods weren't as different as they'd assumed.
Day 5 of Shadowgast Week 2025: Culture
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- Part 2 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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Caleb and Essek find something a little... suggestive... deep in the ruins of Aeor.
Neither of them can keep a straight face about it for very long.Series
- Part 5 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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He ascends as quickly as his meager athleticism will allow and when he reaches the second floor landing his ears immediately twitch, catching the sound of soft music.
It’s… lovely. And Essek finds himself caught, like a fish on a lure, and drawn in towards the source.
He finds it a couple of yards down from the staircase, tucked away in a lamplit alcove; an upright piano, the top of it crowded with books, and a certain red-headed wizard at the bench, his freckled fingers dancing across the keys.
The wizards—and Beau—watch a meteor shower whilst Ruidus is at its zenith in the hills outside Zadash. Some surprises are had and wishes are made.
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Essek takes a bold step in his and Caleb's relationship by sharing one particular spell involving tying the vitality of two people together with a length of platinum thread.
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- Part 4 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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the benefits of the slower route by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Jun 2025
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For Jester’s birthday, she gets Caleb a gift; a surprise gift that she won’t tell him anything about. The rest of the evening passes in strange ways but a mage hand is cast, a party attended, and a night is well spent, even if the Nein tease Caleb relentlessly for it in the morning.
Caleb and Essek try to find some time alone at Jester’s party. Essek promises grand plans for the night, but even the best laid plans are no match for the Nein.
Written for Shadowgast Week 2 2025: Hands
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- Part 1 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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“You haven’t heard a single word I’ve said, have you, my love?” he asks, voice full of affection and mirth.
Caleb chuckles. “Ah, you’ve caught me,” he says, tracing his free hand down Essek’s freckled cheek. “Nein, I have been admiring you, Schatz.”
Essek hums, leaning into his touch. “I suppose I can forgive you, then. But just this once,” he reaches up and playfully flicks Caleb’s nose. “And you have to listen about this next one.”
The wizards go on a stargazing date and Essek shares a Kryn folktale.
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Prince Essek Thelyss was not expecting to meet Caleb Widogast in the royal gardens. At least he doesn't seem to realize who Essek is.
For Shadowgast Ship Week 2025 days 1 & 3 (the prompts garden & hands, respectively)
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- Part 1 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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The first indication that something is wrong is that Caleb can see the horizon.
A monster attacks Caleb while he and Essek are exploring the depths of Aeor. Essek gets them out (barely)
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- Part 3 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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They’re not quite a week into it now and Essek has seldom felt so at ease in his life. The weather is hot, but the humidity is mild, and there’s no shortage of good books to read, beautiful flora to examine, and tasty food to eat.
Caleb too has shed the weight of the last few months, an easy smile adorning his freckled face most times Essek has caught his eye. It’s warmed his heart immeasurably, seeing his partner finding peace again.
Caleb and Essek slip away to have an evening to themselves whilst on vacation with friends from the Arcana Pansophical. Shenanigans and feelings ensue.
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While picking through the ruins of Aeor, Essek uncovers something that looks an awful lot like the fencing foils he was forced to train with during his youth.
Caleb would like a demonstration.Series
- Part 2 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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The garden is on the ceiling.
Caleb does assume that, at some point in the long distant past, that ceiling had been part of a floor.Series
- Part 1 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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Essek enters his field of view from the left side of the garden, his sun hat askew and his caddy of gardening tools loosely held in a shaking, dirt-stained hand.
“It’s the peonies,” Essek says and Caleb’s heart immediately sinks because he sounds desperately upset. “I don’t… they were fine yesterday—”
“Let me see,” Caleb offers before Essek can work himself up anymore, crossing the remaining distance to his partner.
In the heat of early summer, a blow is struck to Essek's garden.