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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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Caleb returns to Rosohna after a months absence and Essek is determined to make make him realise everything he's missed
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To Mitigate Your Memories by stoated for yelenavasilyevna
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Jan 2024
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Essek is here, on her doorstep in the middle of the night. Bren is forgiving him.
"You don't deserve it."
His fingers unclench minutely. "As always, Archmage, you are the clever one."
"Get off my fucking doorstep," she says, and slams the door.
Astrid should have known better than to let him in. He should have known better than to take it.
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i'll meet judgement by the hounds by necromanticomedy (yelenavasilyevna), yelenavasilyevna
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Dec 2023
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“So,” Eadwulf says, leaning against the table. “Does he need dunamancy, to hold you down—”
“Excuse me.” Essek says. “I am right here—”
“Oh I know, Shadowhand.”
“Former Shadowhand,” Astrid says, mildly.
“Former Shadowhand,” he amends. “Your arms work for anything heavier than a champagne flute?”Eadwulf and Astrid agree to have dinner with Bren's new friend. Eadwulf reminds Bren of what he left behind. Astrid reminds Essek of what he'll never escape.
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- Part 2 of i'm gonna kill all the judges
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Safe in the Hands of Love by dancing_after_dark (dancing_choose)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jul 2023
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After centuries of being alone, Essek finally gets to experience what he's always craved.
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Essek is burnt out from work, and visits Caduceus. No smut in the first 5 chapters.
Set after the finale, but before Essek and Caleb get together.
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- Part 3 of Mollymauk Lives Polynein AU
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“You could have me here,” suggests Essek gently. For once, he does not sound in control. Not of himself, not of anything.
Caleb lets out a breath, pushing in on the plug instead of tugging out. Essek’s hips stutter forward in acceptance of it. The quietest moan sounds out of him: a tiny, satisfied thing, like tasting a chocolate truffle. Mmh.
But they can’t. They have affairs set in order that they both cared very much for last night. He couldn’t stand the disappointment in the morning when they realize what they have overlooked.
“No,” says Caleb. “We have a reservation.”
— Essek and Caleb go to Nicodranas and have the vacation of a lifetime. (And Bren is also there, and problems are had and resolved.)
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Right as Essek prepares to incite action with a word, Bren slowly rises and rights himself with the stillness of a marble statue. He turns. From day to night, the look he gives Essek when his eyes swivel back shoots ice through his bloodstream; it is a look of hot murder. It is a hunger like primeval revenge.
Bren sets his jaw, eyes darkening. He jabs to the vanity with his chin. “Put it on.”
Essek swallows. He tests his invisible binds. “Why?”
Bren’s mouth sharpens into a knife-smile. “Because I want to watch you cry it off.”
— Echo Bren doms Essek for the first time; everything goes as planned, until it doesn't.
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reflections and other illusions of control by atlasarcana
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Feb 2023
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Essek and Caleb, going on two years after the events of canon, have perfected the craft of domesticity. There is nothing left for wanting in their relationship except for one thing, and they both know it. Which is why they summon the Echo a second time, even when the Echo says his name is Bren.
They strike a bargain. Essek gets the punishment he needs that he can't get from Caleb; Bren gets to satisfy his fantasies about his own timeline’s Essek; Caleb gets a happy partner.
So begins a protracted and messy lesson in control, trust, claim, and love, in which an alternate-timeline Scourger-Bren dominates Essek, and with their advice, courts his own Shadowhand. But Bren has his own secrets, and they’re not the ones Caleb is expecting.
Two timelines help each other out by way of intel and relationship triage. Nothing could ever go wrong. Certainly, nothing could ever go right either.
(In-progress longfic series.)
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"You asked for overwhelming," Caleb reminded, "Is that still the case?"
Essek shuddered once before giving a nod.
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“I want you,” Essek announced without a shred of warning. “To tie me down and use me until I’m begging for it, and then keep going until I can't take a second more.”
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Whose to Say a Want is Not a Need? by spicysteptomyces (Somestreptomyces)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
23 Nov 2022
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When Essek was in need of quiet, to lay down all he carries and rest, there are no hands he trusted more than Caleb Widogast's, and this was not the first time Essek had placed himself in Caleb's capable hands, begging to be freed from his own mind.
All Essek could hear was his own gentle, bated breath and the rushing of blood in his ears. Well worn and cared for leather wrapped his eyes and ears, blocking sight and sound and its familiar, comforting smell surrounded him, blending with the incense he knew was gently burning in the corner to suffuse him with the sense of safety. Of home.
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Essek Thelyss wasn’t one to be tied down by just anyone. He was rarely keen on anyone having that much power over him; it was certainly a privilege which few earned and even fewer kept the right to execute.
Where his brother was concerned, though… Essek was far more lenient in what he allowed.
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The one where Essek and Verin fuck against an altar while taking the Luxon's name in vain.
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After insisting on shopping alone earlier that day, Caleb comes home with a surprise for Essek.
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I think of all the education that I’ve missed (but then my homework was never quite like this) by MarsBar2019
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Dec 2021
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Essek has some good ideas, some bad ideas, and some very good bad ideas. Dropping in on his husband at work, in disguise, is all of the above.
This takes place in the summer storms continuity, but you don't need to have read that for this to make sense!
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- Part 3 of love, love is gonna lead you by the hand
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Caleb Widogast has a steel trap of a memory, but even he can forget something every so often. He tries to beat Essek back to his tower to retrieve forgotten notes and ends up hiding under a desk in the drow's work room. Essek, not realizing Caleb is there, decides to let his guard down and indulge in a little self care...
What is a forgetful wizard stuck under a desk supposed to do?
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It had started with the same kind of wounded complexity as each step in their intimacy together. Essek had returned from his wanderings to their little house in Rexxentrum. His nerves had been raw, and he had felt frantic and alone and drifting. In a moment of boldness, he'd asked Caleb to hurt him.
Caleb had, understandably, been aghast. Essek had taken a deep breath, had clutched his trembling hands together, had confessed that there had always been days when pain was the only thing that drew him out of his head, that centered him in his body. That he was not asking Caleb to harm him, but asking him to share in some deep part of Essek that was raw and intimate as it was taboo.
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Jester Sends Her Tidings by StellarTangle (ShadedTangle)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Dec 2021
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Jester keeps interrupting the wizards' fun, but she's sweet about it.
Wherein, Essek becomes gradually more comfortable showing his sexual side to his friends. And eventually, maybe, starts to realize he has more love for more people than he thought possible. Caleb eases him so carefully into those uncharted waters and well, there's some fun and beauty that awaits their little found family.
It started as a dumb premise. But the more I think about it, the more I see Essek unlocking a side of himself that he never expected. Added an appropriate tag: porn with feelings. There are lots of em. And, very importantly, healthy communication. They may struggle from time to time, but they are trying their best to do this right.
Experimentation is the name of the game. Strap in (heh), we're talking about some big questions in this silly little smut fic.
If you're here for mono shadowgast, that's the main focus. I'll mark the poly chapters with "(poly)" so you can skip 'em, if that ain't your thing. Wizards are each others' primaries, first and foremost, and they're gonna feel out what kind of poly situation suits them best beyond that.
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Sometimes Caleb likes to warm him up with his hands first, pull Essek over his knee and spank him with his open palm. Sometimes he starts with small soothing touches, barely there taps of his hand, until Essek is flushed deep violet and squirming for more. Essek likes that, likes all the things Caleb does to him.
He likes this too, the distant slide of leather up his thigh, like Caleb is too good to touch him. Like he’s nothing more than a naughty child that needs to be taught a lesson. It’s terrible. It’s degrading.
Essek loves it.
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Caleb is in a fulfilling relationship with Astrid and Eadwulf. Something he never thought he'd have. And together they make a perfect unit. But still sometimes the three are in need of a fourth for the night someone to balance out and provide someone submissive for them. So when they find themselves in a favorite club of theirs they often loom for someone to fit the bill. However this is a story about what happens when one stays around past the one night.