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Hope is a Fire to Keep us Warm by Void_Voyager
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
07 Oct 2025
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Caleb gets separated from Essek after a failed teleportation spell. Now he has to try and find him
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my heart feels cold as ice, but it's anybody's guess by soda_poppers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Oct 2025
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Day Four - Hypothermia
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
- Part 13 of coming are the nein
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“We ventured too far, considering our unexpectedly low number.” Essek turns his face against the light, as if to let it cleanse some unwanted quality from his expression. Instead, he looks carved in bone, immortalized in frowning marble. “There were … traps. Perfectly clever ones. Still functioning.”
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Essek tries and fails and tries to save the man he loves.
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Caleb was walking through the greenery of the Blooming Grove one moment, then came the sudden nauseating swirl of being whisked away through teleportation, and he found himself in a dark stone chamber, underground.
-----------------------The Mighty Nein's wizard gets spirited away by Ikithon, who wants his prodigy back in his grasp.
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"Shit - Caleb, hey. Stay with me." Fjord pressed a hand to the man's chest, anchoring himself maybe more than the man on ground. "You're okay."
But Caleb didn't respond.
He was too warm. Not just feverish, but the kind of heat that felt spent - like the ash left over when a flame burns itself out.OR
In the ruins of an ancient temple, Caleb gives more than he has - again. When the fight ends and the dust settles, it’s Fjord who catches him. Who sees through the quiet self-destruction and refuses to let him burn away.
Caleb might think he has to earn his place with pain and sacrifice. But Fjord knows better.
Febuwhump Day 10: Magical Exhaustion (Happy February in May I guess?)
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This is what Caleb Widogast is—he is a wretched, oil-slick sort of thing, down to the pure throbbing essence of his core. It's a miracle beyond comprehension, then, that he is loved despite the blood overfilling in the honeycombs of his bones. It is the sort of miracle that he thought was reserved for better men than him.
Or: a collection of disparate stories about Caleb having a bad time, with a focus on healing and friendship. Featuring (among others) sleep deprivation, vampires, and the pervasive horror of slowly losing your humanity.
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Caleb's eyes flew open, unfocused and wide. He didn’t see her. Not really.
"Bitte, Vater - nein… Ich kann das nicht -"
“Caleb.” Beau’s voice was sharp, low. She glanced toward the others - still asleep, gods willing. “You’re not there. You’re with us.”
He shook his head, still locked in the memory, eyes darting. “The fire - das Feuer - I didn’t - bitte, nicht - please, don’t make me -”
She gripped his shoulders, firm but steady. “Listen to me. You’re safe. You’re not in Rexxentrum. You’re in a freezing-ass cave with the dumbest group of powerful idiots in Wildemount, and no one’s going to hurt you.”OR
When Caleb falls ill on a perilous journey through the mountains, Beauregard and the others take care of him. But Caleb’s battle isn’t just against his sickness - it’s against the trauma that haunts him. In the midst of his struggle, Beau is forced to confront how far Caleb has yet to come in trusting his friends - and how much further she’s willing to go to make sure he does.
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Caleb has moments after hard days. He gets help during those nights and learns who has been comforting him through his nightmares.
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The spell flickers, fire fizzling out before it can even take shape or warm his fingers.
He hardly has time to think before the world tilts.
He must have missed his footing. He's going off the edge of the cliff. He really hopes his friends don't waste time trying to go down and find him. He'll fall and fall and then it'll all just stop and that's not what he wants, not anymore, not for awhile now, but it's still okay. It's still -
The last thing Caleb hears is Jester's voice, high and alarmed. Then, darkness.
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Caleb gets sick and doesn't tell anyone. Because, of course. His new friends have something to say about this.
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Caleb was a sentimental idiot to stay with the Nein as long as he has, and it's time for him to go—it's the only way to keep them (and himself) safe from those forever chasing him. He needs to vanish into being nothing once more.
But Trent Ikithon is a determined figure, and without the Nein at his back, Caleb is no match.
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- Part 6 of 2025 Event Fics
- Part 125 of Q's Rarest Rarepairs
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What if the Apogee Solstice aftermath was different? What if Caleb and Beau had not survived unscathed and Caleb had wounds that seem to be incurable?
This is Essek’s pov of the situation.
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Caleb is late coming home from Soltryce and Essek is worried. He is right to be.
Caleb had approximately four different paths he regularly took from Soltryce to his home. Given that it was a Wednesday, Astrid was on business in Nicodranas, and their usual butcher had a family emergency in the countryside, there were really only two routes he was likely to take. Factoring in Caleb’s distaste for the cacophony of Wednesday’s market in the square at the midway point and that it was sweet corn season, Essek assumed he would take the more winding of the routes to pass by the quieter vegetable stand and the baker.
It was not a overly long walk, but as Essek marched through the street, he bitterly thought that it was long enough to take time he worried he did not have.
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Caleb is late enough getting home and not answering Sendings that Essek risks venturing out into the streets of Rexxentrum looking for him—and finds him unconscious in the back of an alley, wrists bound and beaten to hell.Series
- Part 1 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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The Uthodurn scene with the shopkeeper and residuum got me thinking, what if Caleb thought the residuum might still be there? How would he deal with that knowledge? (Not well)
There’s gold in his arms. Well, not exactly gold, but maybe better (maybe worse, definitely worse). He heard it from the nice lady at the store, residuum is better than gold — worth more — it’s right there in the price, several gold for just a bit and he knows his exchange rates, that means it’s better than gold. Simple math. His skin itches and well, it’s itched since he got out, that’s not new. It itched before too, but in an excited, young way, a magic-waiting-to-get-out way, not a get-it-out-please-take-it-out way. What itches must out, is that a thing people say? He doesn’t know; words rotted in his mouth when he was locked up and now they skitter away from him like roaches. That’s what happens when you lose a decade.
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- Part 1 of Exercises & Drabbles
- Part 4 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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“I had to take precautions, you see. I lost seven men bringing him in, so best not to take risks,” Sorn said.
“Feeblemind,” Essek whispered through numb lips.A Dynasty mage with a personal vendetta imprisons Caleb to get revenge against Essek. They must escape and then unravel the damage done.
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- Part 5 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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In which Caleb goes for a walk after telling Nott and Beau about his past and runs into someone he's worked so hard to hide from.
(Or, Yasha was not the only fighter from the Victory Pit that Trent took notice of. And one was quite familiar to him.)
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- Part 114 of Q's Rarest Rarepairs
- Part 20 of Possibly TBC
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It happened so quickly that Caleb almost felt like he had been caught in a slow spell.
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The prequel to Smoke and Catmint that no one asked for.
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- Part 2 of Essek and Caleb Haven't Retired
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Essek comes home to an empty house. His evening of wine and reading is disturbed by the woosh of the teleportation circle.
Very slight spoilers for C3E103.
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AKA: Essek sniffed Caleb's scarf and I could not get this out of my head.
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- Part 1 of Essek and Caleb Haven't Retired
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Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul by ATrashMammal
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Jul 2024
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He could almost smell the ozone in the air around him as his palms itched and crackled with a held potential. He could do it he thought, he would do it, if it meant that Nott might be happy, after all she had done for him he could do this for her if only to see her smile once more. It might break him, would break him, of that he was sure, but it would be worth it if it only meant she could be herself as she was always meant to be.
What was a little more broken to a man who hadn’t yet pulled all the pieces of himself back together again? One more nail in the coffin of someone already doomed would be worth it for the life he might be able to give.
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In which Caleb makes a deal with Isharnai
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This is not the first time Caleb has used fire on those he cares for. It's not the first time his mind has been messed with for another's goals.
Unfortunately, that makes dealing with it all harder instead of easier.
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Caleb fails a mission, Mollymauk is there to help.
Also, Nott and Molly have a conversation.
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- Part 1 of The Mighty Nein: Deleted Scenes