Online:Tandare (Root Sunder Ruins)

Tandare
Location	In front of Root Sunder Ruins
Race	High Elf	Gender	Female
Reaction	Friendly

Tandare

Tandare is a High Elf researcher found outside Root Sunder Ruins. She will ask you to find some research journals inside the ruins after a failed expedition.

Related Quests

• If the Dead Could Talk: Recover the journals of a research team from an overgrown ruin.

Quest-Related Dialogue

Approaching her outside of Root Sunder:

"Hey! How do you like to help a person in need?"

Speaking to her to help her get the journals:

"The feral beasts ruined everything. I don't know how the Bosmer survive out in the wilderness like this.
Like living in a war without purpose. Savages."

What's the problem?

"I was part of a research expedition sent to investigate the ruins of Root Sunder, an Altmer city swallowed by the jungle centuries ago.
I took a short leave to retrieve supplies, and when I got back, the ruins were swarming with wild animals."

You want me to rescue the researchers?

"What? No! They're dead. What I need is their journals.
Each researcher kept notes on their finds. If I can get the journals to Elden Root, the expedition isn't a complete waste. But I won't risk going in there. Would be safer running off a cliff."

I'll see what I can find.

This starts the quest. You can ask her some questions before continuing.

"It's … surprising to get help from a stranger out here. Thank you.
Three journals should be enough. Knowing the whoreson dogs that live out here—I mean that literally—I'm assuming at least one was eaten or defecated on."

What's so special about Root Sunder?

"This city was part of an early colonization attempt. The jungle was infamous for being untamable, but our best minds took that as a challenge. The story goes they built a sprawling metropolis. And then it vanished. Never to be seen."

So you think this is Root Sunder?

"Honestly? Who knows? Root Sunder has been a ghost story for centuries. There may have never been a real Root Sunder. But this certainly looks like a lost city. And if it will get my name in published papers, I'll swear it's Root Sunder all day."

After you collected the journals, return to her.

"Oh! You're back. So you weren't eaten by lions, then. Good!
Did you have any luck with the journals?"

I've recovered three journals.

"Oh, excellent! Let me see. Oh my, look at this gibberish. Driven insane by ancient ruins? This is a gold mine! The pseudo-intellectuals of Elden Root love this stuff.
The commentary volumes alone will keep me employed for years to come."

This completes the quest. If you speak to her after the quest, she says:

"My career as a researcher may not be dead after all.
Might even get a promotion. You've saved me from a life in the glass mines, my friend. May the Empyrean Light protect you, wherever you go."

Notes

• Tandare claims Root Sunder is the ruins of an Altmer city when it is instead Ayleid in origin.