So today I have to come back to you with an apology. A couple weeks ago I did Witcher fandom! And I rec'ed Yennifer/Jaskier and Geralt/Emhyr, and I do stand by that.

But then msilverstar and rmc28 had to show up in comments and point out that I had missed the real enemyship in Witcher fandom, and mea culpa. They were right. The real one true enemyship in Witcher fandom is Iorveth/Vernon Roche.

In my defense, I had missed it because after reading several of the books, and absorbing a lot of canon via show and video game fandom, I barely knew who Vernon Roche was (something to do with Temerian politics? Sounds complicated) and had no idea who Iorveth was, so I figured it was one of those really minor side character ships where you had to be there in the chatroom when they came up with it.

Turns out you just had to know the second video game, not just the third one. In the second one Iorveth and Roche seem to be pretty major characters. Iorveth is the leader of the Scoia'tael, a group of elven guerilla terrorists. Roche is the leader of the Blue Stripes, the Temerian Special Forces commando unit tasked with stopping them. Explaining what is at the root of the conflict would require much greater knowledge of Witcher canon than I, frankly, ever want, and also probably several dedicated years studying Polish history, so we'll leave it that both of them have done terrible, terrible things for their causes, both of them have really awful reputations that they have earned in full, and there are no good guys here, just two people who've spend a long time doing the wrong thing for what they thought was the right reasons. But the two of them have been fighting each other back and forth through the Temerian forests in an evenly matched dog-and-squirrel chase for years, and they have each had each other at their mercy at least once - and found themselves unwilling to kill their counterpart (but quite willing to monologue about how much they respect them!)

Meanwhile, post-Witcher 3, all the political reasons they had to oppose each other are gone in the wake of Nilfgaard's conquest of the North (and so are most of the people they knew from those days.) They find themselves both reluctant survivors, tasked with trying to patch some kind of life and home together from what's left of them, and for once with common enemies and common goals. So that's great set-up there for enemyslash!

• Peace-Tied (54840 words) by bomberqueen17
  Chapters: 9/9
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Canon-Typical Violence, poorly-negotiated kink, Past Sexual Assault, Alcoholism, Addiction recovery, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, just a lot of post-trauma, Politics, Discussions Of Fantasy Racism, War Crimes, both of these people are war criminals, and have to deal with that, Hair Pulling, Sexual Choking, Blow Jobs, Biting, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Post-The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  Series: Part 25 of Meet Death Sitting
  
  Iorveth and Roche attend a diplomatic conference together.
  (Warning: This is part of an extremely long series that *will* eat your life for at least a week. But this one stands on its own, if you let it.)



• Mending Fences (8799 words) by quills_at_dawn
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Retirement, Post-Canon, Toussaint (The Witcher), Chaperon, Happy Ending
  Series: Part 7 of Witcher Shorts, Part 1 of Mending Fences
  
  Iorveth and Roche go on a road trip together.



• Here’s to the Men We Were (15549 words) by dread_thehalfhanded
  Chapters: 7/7
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Set Post-W3, Mentions of Roche/Foltest, Vergen is happy and thriving under Saskia and I refuse to believe otherwise, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grumpy Old Men, Drinking & Talking, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Fantastic Racism, Needles, Masturbation, Pining, An unlearning, Enemies to Lovers
  
  Iorveth and Roche go flower-picking together.