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A Fire Without a Hearth: An Anatomy of Breaking by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
10 Dec 2025
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“All those lessons never really leave you.”
Magic stayed, certainly - fire at his fingertips when he asked for it. But so did the other education: obedience, erasure, pain as instruction.In the aftermath of the fight in Episode 5 of The Mighty Nein, Caleb pursues Owelia into the forest alone. What follows is not a battle, but an exorcism. Memory bleeds into present, grief becomes fire, and Caleb’s restraint fractures under the unbearable weight of the past. A character study of the moment Caleb burns Owelia to ash — and nearly burns himself with her.
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firestorm by widogastsversion
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Dec 2025
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Caleb swept his arm in a wide arc that reached above his head and commanded the flames to consume Owelia in their grasp. If a house made of solid wood and stone could scorch easily by arcane fire, then the small halfling would burn even greater. And burn she did.
Or, Caleb's thoughts as he kills Owelia.
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Consultations by SpringFire1994
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
27 Nov 2025
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It had been three days since those damned clerics had left, and Caleb had still barely spoken a word; answering Essek’s questions with one syllable and spending hours in his favourite armchair; staring out at their garden with an unopened book in his lap; barely acknowledging even their cats, all of whom seemed confused as to why their favourite of the two wizards had stopped giving them the attention that they rightly deserved.
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- Part 2 of Hourglass
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Summer Salad and Tea by SpringFire1994
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
26 Nov 2025
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Inspired by Essek's Mother/Backstory and a Tumblr post I couldn't stop thinking about.
It had been a rare good day today.
Or at least… the auburn-haired man had woken up with recognition in his eyes, and had managed to at least dress himself and make them both breakfast without burning the cottage down.
It had been a good day, right up until Caleb had had an episode, and managed to pour hot water all over his hand; whilst completely missing the teacups that Essek had laid out, and the frustration and anger, and the painful memories that the situation had stirred up had overtaken him in seconds.Series
- Part 1 of Hourglass
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Sutures by SmackSkellington2695 for GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
08 Nov 2025
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Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance...
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- Part 2 of Drabble-rCon
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 449
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 108
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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 Nov 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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“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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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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A one shot that could have an even sadder second part if someone wants a real ending. -
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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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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