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[dragonlady7]

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i just realized the Peace-Tied section of the series has finally caught up to the stuff I wrote for it back when I thought it was just going to be a side plot chapter in Fit For Pearls. Remember how I sent Yennefer to Vergen? That’s where she is!

here’s Iorveth’s character intro:

Yennefer cleared her throat. “Did you have something to ask me?” she said to the unseen person who was perched behind the shutter on the windowsill of her room, perceptible only by the faint thrumming of life-force– not a magically gifted person, but likely an elf, from the aura.

There was a fraught moment of silence, and then a resonant, slightly nasal voice said, “No,” and the shutter swung back to reveal, yes, an elf, crouched on the windowsill looking unbothered. He was tall and well-built and dressed impeccably in forest green velvet and brocades, and he had a woven band arranged diagonally across his face covering one eye which, from the scar protruding from under the band and hooking down to the corner of his mouth, likely meant the eye was missing.

Yennefer had seen him before, somewhere. She pondered it a moment, and placed him: plucked from Geralt’s memories. “Iorveth,” she said. Scotia’tael commando leader, former agent of Nilfgaard via the Vrihedd Brigade, betrayed in the peace after the second war, he’d escaped execution and fought on, and had somehow cadged himself a pardon and was now highly-placed in Saskia’s government, here in the Upper Aedirn Free State.

A survivor, and from Geralt’s impressions, he rather liked the elf, so that was two points in his favor, to set against this unwelcome intrusion.

and here’s Roche’s

The first time Yennefer laid eyes on Vernon Roche she immediately knew Geralt had slept with him. He was a handsome, weatherbeaten man of excellent bone structure, built lean and spare with an incredibly square jaw, deep-set dark eyes and a piercing gaze. He was wearing a padded gambeson and an elaborately-wrapped old-fashioned chaperon, but she had an expert’s eye and could easily pick out that he was both younger and more lithe than he looked, and he had the stance of a swordsman and the gait of a huntsman. Geralt would not be able to resist him for a moment.

and that’s all there was going to be of their backstory!

This is going to need rewriting of course because I’ve learned so much more about them, but that was initially my whole plan, and then I added in Geralt’s offhand observation that he’d smelled Iorveth in Roche’s bed, and then I was like but what if I did tell that story…. actually first I fugue-state-wrote the entire elf baby subplot which like, hey S2, get out of my head, also mine is both more interesting and funnier. I’m going to have to heavily annotate that when I put it up eventually, as it was predicated on Book!Francesca’s canonical rant about how Elven reproduction works, instead of S2′s but what if we did the opposite of that instead– which is valid! but. will be confusing to Netflix fans. I’m not a book purist, I swear, it’s just that the books existed then, and S2 didn’t, and when you’re writing shit this long there’s kind of a lead time. (Your picture was not posted)