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First of all, this was supposed to be a study... , I couldn't stop myself orzSome steps of the painting progress can be seen on my instagram
SO, now that Witcher 4 is confirmed, will we get to see more of this face again or no?
Hope is definitely up :3
Iorveth (c) CDPR
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Aaawww, what a wonderful drawing to start the day with! You made my morning
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Thank you so much!
I'm happy you like it
I hope you have a wonderful day
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An Iorveth a day keeps the Nilfgaards away...
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That didn't quite work out at Vergen though
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...because he left.
I always wonder what had been if he had stayed...
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And I always wonder why he left...
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Broken heart?
(I had to come up with an explanation for my story... which is that he learned about the witch hunt and the pogroms in Redania, so he left to help the non-humans in Oxenfurt and Novigrad. Since Saskia did not return his feelings, he felt he fell into disuse in Vergen. He though with a dragon Vergen would be safe anyway)
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Yeah, that seems to be the most canon explanation... although it was never confirmed that Saskia really was his love interest.
I always felt that it was more the hope of finally having a safe place to live, was his main motivation to take part in the Vergen independence thing. His dream also hints of that.
With the help of even a dragon he finally sees this dream within reach. Saskia is a powerful being that would fight for his cause, would even speak up for him... so I guess he naturally felt great admiration for her... but romantical love?
I somehow can't imagine that...
Why did he leave then... broken heart seems too easy of an explanation at least to me. It could be that he was probably needed elsewhere, as you also suggested. Or he realized that he wouldn't find in Vergen what he hoped for. It is easy to unite against a larger foe, but I guess when Henselt's army was defeated, there was no way of keeping peace among so many different factions in Vergen.
Even Dandelion's journal entry hints of that:
Nevertheless, when we arrived in Vergen it was teeming with humans in addition to its mainly dwarven population. Saskia's peasant rebels and a group of Aedirnian nobles had made camp there and promptly begun to measure each other with menacing glares. Meanwhile, all the groups that had assembled in the area were mistrustful of Iroveth's Scoia'tael, who strove to keep to themselves with unmistakably elven aloofness. Truly, if not for Henselt's army making camp nearby, the whole rabble would have been at each other's throats in no time.
So maybe he got fed up and left to return to his solitary fight against the dh'oine?
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To be honest, I never liked the idea of him being with Saskia... *cough*
I don´t mind that he left, I needed him elsewhere anyway...
True, broken heart is too easy. He is not the kind that lets feelings influence his dedication and his fight.
Even IF he was heartbroken, he would have stayed if there was a chance for the realm he dreamed of. If it had been worth to continue the fight.
I feel like him being fed up, probably annoyed by the tension between the fractions and also his - kind of - diasspointed dream of a "peacful coexistance" are a very good explanation.
I can even hear him say "oh dear, I am too old for this shit".
I think he is very tired of all the fighting and hatred...
His dream in the game, where he just wanted a pipe and some good food nearly broke my heart...
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Me neither XD Somehow this doesn't fit his character... In the game you get to ask him if she's his fiancé, and the way he replies something like:"Don't mock me, witcher" made me think that romance is completely out of his question.
And you're right, I don't think he would put his (perhaps) broken heart before his greater goal either.
Glad you like my headcanon XD Iorveth teaming up with humans can't fare well for too long, may there be a dragon involved or not...
The dream also touched me very much. I think it helps to understand Iorveth's motivation better and it certainly puts a lot more depth to his character
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Buuut the point is:
How would he look like if he had responded to Geralt: "No, but I hope to change that."
You can´t take a warrior seriously if he´s totally lovestoned
He has something for her, remember in the end when he tells Geralt not to kill her?
Or the other ending, when Triss and Geralt find him half dead, with that knife that could save her?
I don´t think he is as stone-hearted as he sometimes pretends to be.
e.g. in Flotsam, when the brothel is on fire. "Our women are prepared to die" blabla heoric shit.
But IF you save them he is really relieved, and if you go to kill Loredo he is actually upset that no one saved the elven women.
In my story he has some sort of... former lover. But he "ran away" when things were getting too serious.
As if it´s nice to have someone who cares, but you know... he does not see himself as a caring husband, cradling a baby.
But also, a romance would make him weak and vulnerable. In so many ways....
And he can´t afford it to be weak.
The moment he gives in to something, the second he reveals any kind of weakness everything will crash down.
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Oh yes, I didn't mean that he was stone-hearted, more like that it doesn't fit with either his life style and/or with the image he has of himself or rather the role that he chose to play.
True, he has a thing for Saskia, he planted his hopes of a free realm in her plus she is very charismatic (she's a dragon after all XD)... I just don't think that it is romantical love.
Or even if he felt that kind of love for her, he probably wouldn't allow himself to admit it or act that way, because it would make him weak and vulnerable, as you pointed out.
I also think that it would distract him from his mission of vengeance. Things like honor and staying true to his word seem to matter a lot to him, so I think he wouldn't allow himself to be distracted when his scoia'tael unit relies so heavily on him... but of course even if he might deny his feelings, he can't erase them...
(And I can totally see him running away from his domestic duties like in your story 
A lot of the badassery and sass that Iorveth displays is just... well... acting, I guess
I think he also said something like "I am the man I have to be" at some point, so yeah....
On the surface he's all about hatred and killing dh'oine, but as you get to know him you realize that there is a lot more to him than just that, even if he probably wouldn't admit it
(I replayed the part with the women because Iorveth got mad at me for not saving them, after that I didn't fall for his heroic bullshit anymore XD)
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Yes, you are so right!
And I like the quote "I am who I need to be".
That pretty much summs up how he is.
He dedicated his life to the greater good - or what he thinks the greater good is.
Even though he is tired of fighting he does not give up, because he knows how important he is for the Scoia'tael... Being the 'legendary leader' and all. They need him, they need a strong and fierce leader.
I feel in my story he turned out a little too soft... But part of it plays before the betrayal by Nilfgaard. So I use that as an excuse
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Ah, yeah, I always wondered what kind of elf he was before that betrayal
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Not so bitter... And not carrying such a huge weight on his shoulders I guess.
And still with two eyes
I can see why Isengrim left the realms after he could escape his execution. But I consider it brave that Iorveth stayed, despite everything he has been through.
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