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"If that first church had been a little spark in the fabric of Clorinde’s faith, then the Opera Epiclese is a bonfire roaring its prayers to the open sky. Lady Furina’s most ardent followers congregate in the lobby, clutching newspapers and playbills as their hymn-books, giving everything they have to the spectacle of the court and stage. And their Archon soaks up the spotlight, growing bigger and brighter with every shouted word of praise. Clorinde does not shout, but she feels it rattle through her, as world-breaking as a kiss, and she thinks of the audience as the waves of an ocean buying Lady Furina towards the sun.
And then Clorinde is twenty, and Clorinde is undefeated, and Clorinde is face-to-face with her Archon for the first time in her life."
In which Clorinde has a crisis of faith.
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“Lady Furina doesn’t listen to anyone,” Jacqueline says. “And a good thing, too — what sort of Archon would she be if she went around taking mortals’ advice? But for everything else she is, she’s reasonable. If the Iudex really is…” she lowers her voice, disbelief painted across every inch of her strong features, “A thief, surely the God of Justice has a right to know.”
Neuvillette's official introduction is over, but a new problem has arisen. Sequel to Tails From The Court.
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- Part 2 of a natural imbalance
- Part 7 of i drink the air before me and return
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Noun: cast-off material. Verb: to discard. Slang: to fight.
Sigewinne watches over the Fortress of Meropide's newest inmate.
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"Oh great Hauteclaire, Sword of Light! By your blade were so many conflicts settled in peace, and the ravages of war laid to rest in these lands.
One day there shall be one nobler than I, seven times more so, who will lift you again, and they shall do deeds seven times greater."
- La Chanson d'Erinnyes
Furina, the Hauteclaire, and the interminable passage of time.
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“Does that happen a great deal?”
“Oh, every now and then,” Furina lies, flicking her wrist as if the attention is nothing more than an annoying insect buzzing about her head — something to be crushed, and discarded, kept at bay with scented smoke. “I’m quite a big star now, you know!”
“The pride of Fontaine,” says Neuvillette softly, and Furina realises he must have seen her in the tabloids. How mortifying. “Which is what I was hoping to speak to you about, as it happens.”
Two years after Neuvillette and Furina break up, a letter arrives in Furina’s dressing-room at the Opera Epiclese.
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"Neuvillette.
She says his name sometimes, whispered into the empty night, like a sailor throwing an anchor down at sea. Semantic satiation twists any word she repeats beyond some invisible threshold, numbs her tongue into incoherence; only Neuvillette is immune. He may have no interest in becoming her friend, but he’s something — an oasis in the desert, an island in the middle of the sea. A ‘something’ beyond comprehension or definition. He is gentle, and fair, and so much himself that sometimes Furina can hardly bear to look at him. Instead, she drapes her hope for the future like a cloak around his shoulders and pulls him with her into the sky, hand in hand, onto the glittering pedestal of fame and faith that will save their people from ruin."
Neuvillette and Furina, throughout the centuries.
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Hysilens goes into hibernation. Cerydra keeps her safe while she recovers.
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16 Aug 2025
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Beauregard teaches Essek some hand-to-hand combat. Essek has feelings about it (so does Caleb, who watches).
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20 Sep 2025
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A thousand fingerprints on the surfaces of who I am by SkyScribbles
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Oct 2020
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'Changing is hard. For most of us, it happens little by little in in the smallest moments and we don’t notice it, we don’t choose it. But looking yourself in the face and deciding to be different – that is hard. You are unpicking threads of who you are that were put in place more than a century ago.'
(A collection of Essek-centric oneshots, following a hypothetical redemption journey post-Episode 97. Features Shadowgast and Essek's platonic relationships with the Nein. The fics are arranged in rough chronological order and are loosely interconnected, but they can all be read individually. This series was written during the 2020 hiatus, so is not canon compliant beyond episode 100.)
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The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.
Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.
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r/wizardhusbandry by aplusjaybirdie (gemstone_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Jan 2023
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My solitary Wizard (120, M, NE) might be falling in love with another Wizard (33, M, CG). What should I do?Or: the Wizard Husbandry subreddit fic.
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25 Sep 2025