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    Essek Thelyss has never heard anyone tell him that they love him.

    Until now. Until every member of the Mighty Nein says it, one by one, each in their own strange way.

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    16 Dec 2024

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    He’s no cleric, no pious man at all, and certainly no follower of the Wildmother. He cannot imagine what himself and this vast, amorphous godly abstraction could even begin to talk about.

    In which Essek communes with the Wildmother, eats soup, and is in love with Caleb Widogast.

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    03 Dec 2024

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    Each time Essek returns to his towers, he searches them for new evidence of Dwendalian trespassing. He catalogues every rumpled cushion cover, every ink spot, every dunamantic text left slightly out of place.

    It is, he imagines, not unlike coming home to another person.

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    02 Dec 2024

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    Essek had disappeared, and then the Mighty Nein had swept through Vurmas again. The half-orc had given the report that they had lost Essek in the ruins. They claimed Essek had cast a spell, that it had backfired, that they had tried to save him as he fell down a crevasse, until they could no longer hear him calling back to them. It was a believable death, to the ruins, to the chill of Eiselcross. A brilliant lie.

    She wondered if Essek had come up with it himself.

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    5 times Deirta sent to her sons and 1 time her son sent to her

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    14 Nov 2024

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    ‘Essek,’ Caleb says, very quietly. ‘Are you telling me that you went into this fight convinced you would never get up if you went down?’

    Essek places a hand over the centre of his chest, the place where Lucien’s blade hit. The place where Jester’s diamond shattered. ‘Yes.’

    (In the battle with the Tombtakers, Essek falls. His friends bring him back. And each of them has a request to make of him.)

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    01 Nov 2024