Best Long Critical Role Fanfics
Critical Role fanfics in the 50k–100k range — full novel length without the multi-week commitment. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 19 Long Critical Role Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Critical Role fics — 50,000–100,000 words.
Lay Your Bones
by LadyOrpheus
Footsteps pad down the hall and past the stairs. Actual footsteps. Verin can’t remember the last time he saw Essek walk on his own two feet. He feels a twisted knot form beneath his sternum; something isn’t right. Thinking only of justice and restoring his family's honor after Essek's betrayal, Veri
Remember Me in the Intervals
by inkedinserendipity
One autumn afternoon at the end of the line, Caleb Widogast gathers up his spell components, his notebook, the knowledge of a full lifetime, and throws himself back. Over the next three years, he seeks out old friends. Friends that do not know his name. He helps each of them, in turn: telling a stor
when everybody sees the rainbow (i'm stuck in the rain)
by lexa_lives_in_us
Yasha’s mother dies of childbirth, holding onto life for a couple of hours before giving up on both her husband and her newborn daughter. Yasha’s father is away on a mission when this happens, and when he comes back, he cradles his daughter in his strong arms and softly sings her to sleep.Yasha grow
She Was a Sk8r Beau
by Torchiclove
Every day, six teenagers and a tired college student walk into a Wildemount high school. Among them is Beauregard, with a disrespect for the rules and those who make them, well on her way to burning herself out. They don't know each other, yet. Until, one day, they do.
How Can I Love What I Am Destined To Lose
by neverthelessthesun
Deirta Thelyss may not have been of den Kryn, but she was about as close as one could get without climbing back into the Luxon and trying again. She had been consecuted eight hundred years ago, and was nearly as old as Leylas herself, or so they say. The Light had shone upon her and granted her, fin
body of my body (sky of my sky)
by JPlash
Caleb should go back inside. Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time. When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can ju
Incise
by unintelligiblescreaming
“It is Kryn spellcraft. Evil stuff, I’m afraid,” Ikithon tells Bren’s parents, dripping with sympathy. “One of them must have bound your son’s soul to theirs. Injuries and other ailments are transmitted through the bond. But don’t worry. We know how to take care of cases like his, here at Soltryce.”
Arrangements
by GrellSutcliff
The war between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty finally comes to an end.Peace, as delicate and tentative as it is, has been brokered and discussed.Professor, turned Warmage, Caleb Widogast would be wed, as a political symbol, of the effort being made to extend that peace towards the Dynas
Padded Secrets of the Mighty Nein
by CuteandPadded
Here in this sleepy trade stop along the Amber Road, a handful of wandering destinies slowly begin to intersect…Living her whole life in the seclusion of her mother’s mansion, Jester Lavorre has had no one with which to share her embarrassing kink. But when adventure calls and home is left far behin
Aspects of the Mundane
by Vvenus
Caleb built a routine for himself when he started his higher studies: classes at the University, working part time at the library, and recharging in the dorm with Mollymauk and Fjord. Slowly, new things got introduced into that mundane living: cuddling with Mollymauk, Fjord spending most nights at J
run in the shadows
by atlasarcana
THELYSS: I think I could have floated beside him in stasis forever, ignoring the obvious. Once he offered the precise object of my desire, which I had been concealing from even myself, I panicked. INTERVIEWER: And what did you say to him? THELYSS: We fought about it. We had to. In the Nein, it is pr
The Peacock and the Snake
by asexual_sinner
He remembered… he remembered falling. Inky darkness surrounded him. A gentle caress from feminine fingers, whispering in his ear that he was safe now. A tug on his core. He remembered a hand, tattooed and scarred like his own, reaching out and grabbing his wrist gently. It pulled him along, out of t
The Wildflower at Midnight
by TheFaeWitch
With both her parents missing and her place among the Ashari quietly decided, Keyleth is sent to Syngorn to serve the noble Vessar household. And at the same time, Vax’ildan Vessar has problems of his own: a furious father, an unwanted future, and a ball meant to force him into following in his sist
Do I Hatha?
by SkylineTavern
Beau is speedily going through the motions of life, from the gym to work and back again. It's going great, she's ticking all of the boxes and hasn't fallen off the treadmill once. But when Caduceus gets an emergency call and asks Beau to do him a favour, it sends her spiraling into a trajectory she
Where Dead Men Lay Their Bones
by Houseofyork2018
The Captain of The Revenge, his silver-rimmed spectacles catching the late afternoon sun, stared down at the five most troublesome members of his crew. They stood in a ragged line on the salt-stained deck: Jester Lavorre with her blue-tinged skin and mischievous smile, Fjord Stone shifting his weigh
Let Love Find You
by Wingedauthoress14
Pike Trickfoot spends most of her days imbuing her healing abilities into baked goods and lattes at her and Vex's cafe: The Healing Touch. While she's busy healing everyone around her, the grief she lives with after losing Pop-Pop presses in on her in more ways than one. A year away from Vox Machina
Continuities
by Vvenus
Their first date happened by chance. The second is planned with hope and trepidation. By the third, they are both sure of one thing: running away from this would spell regret, even if the urge to do so keeps coming up the closer they grow together.And that is before they stumble upon parts of each o
Warriors: Fogged Skies
by Tinyheart129
At the end of their journey many mysteries still linger in the minds of the young cats. Secrets from the Clan’s resent and accent history hidden in a shroud of darkness and half truths.Fogpaw is trying to settle into his new life in Sky Clan when he feels his heart is pulling him across the Shadow C
Второй шанс
by cenelfa
У Калеба всегда были сложные отношения с прошлым. И далеко не всегда ему удавалось отпустить его. Особенно, когда дело касалось тех, кто ему дорог.
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About This List
This list of 19long Critical Role fanfics spans 1,260,024 total words. Kudos range from 5 on the newest entries to 2,179 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (7 of 19 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Hurt/Comfort · Angst · Post-Canon · Fluff · POV Caleb Widogast.
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