Essekthelyss Stories

A Mighty Nein Fanfic. Based on Liam's Narrative Telephone "Widogast's Web of Words." Caleb tells the story of the Waldhaxe, but the other members of the Nein change the ending.

A collection of one-shots about Essek and his found family. The Life in the Party: One-shot about Essek and his colorful friends that he's grown to love who are determined to pull him out of the shadows... at least in a literal way because they're tired of him sulking off to the side. What is a Friend worth: One-shot where Essek's treachery is discovered and he has a bit of time in prison to think about the people in his life and atone for at least some of his mistakes. Meanwhile, the Mighty Nein are ticking off the Cerberus Assembly to save their friend. Mark of Adventure: A platonic soul mate AU where a group of adventurers destined for each other share a mark. Essek struggles with himself as he comes to terms with what the mark his mother erased for him may have been. A Touching Reunion: The Mighty Nein have found their ex-dead friend Mollymauk and Essek finds himself in the midst of celebrations and reunions which strangely only make him feel both distant and close to these chaotic people Eternal Friends: A consecutive AU where the Mighty Nein and Essek have forced to become forever reincarnated heroes to defeat the foes they couldn't in their first lives. Warning: Canon-typical themes, language, and all that stuff. Warning: It's fluff and angst and found-family all packed into a bunch of long one-shots Also. Art is NOT mine, at all, those belong to the wicked talented artists. Characters are not mine, no those belong to the amazing talents of the Critical Role crew. This is just a self-indulgence bunch of one-shots created by yours truly. Not all of them are canon-compliant but all of them include SPOILERS!! Be warned.

The past has a way of finding you, no matter now carefully yo try to leave it behind. For Valdrin, duty has always been a constant. When he is tasked with tracking down a traitor of the kryn Dynasty, it is simply another assignment in his long life. One he intends to see through to its end. Essek Thelyss, however has no plans of going with Valdrin. And he is not alone. What should have been straightforward mission quickly unravels into something far more complicated. Caught between obligation and something far less defined, Valdrin finds the like between hunter and something else begins to blur. And as the distance between them closes, it becomes increasingly uncertain whether any of them will walk away unchanged.

"Hollowed life, new rebirth Set forth a soldier consumed by the earth. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awoken by a force he barely understood, The Warden found the world he once knew destroyed. His order lay in ruins, crushed beneath the heel of an empire bent on domination. With no home or brothers left to call his own, he took to the road-not for revenge, but a wandering quest to bring justice wherever he could. It was a hopeless task, even for the strongest of men, until a little blue Tiefling unexpectedly pushed her way into his life. [JESTER LAVORRE X MALE OC]

Forged in hellfire and war, Ryft was born to be a soldier in an archdevil's design. A Zariel tiefling shaped by bloodline, violence, and survival, she escaped the Blood War by choosing the one thing her makers never accounted for: friendship. Now ascended alongside Gale Dekarios-God of Ambition-Ryft should belong to the heavens, or the hells, or somewhere in between. Instead, she falls into Exandria. Stranded in a world that owes her nothing, Ryft crosses paths with the Mighty Nein and begins a quieter, harder battle-deciding who she is when no one claims her name. As old powers observe, ancient ledgers stir, and hell remembers its unfinished business, Ryft must reconcile her past as a weapon with her present as something new: a fighter who can heal, a survivor who can choose, and a woman learning that freedom is not the absence of war, but the courage to walk away. Some destinies are written in blood. This one is written in refusal.