Online:Irenni Elendis

Irenni Elendis
Location	Stonefalls, Inner Sea Armature, Othrenis.
Race	Dark Elf	Gender	Female
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Irenni Elendis

Irenni Elendis is a Dark Elf adventurer and the mother of Mirri Elendis. She has a habit of getting into mishaps during her adventures, and it is usually Mirri who pulls her out of it. Irenni is particularly fixated when it involves leads on a certain Dwarven relic that belonged to her father.

Despite this, they did not have a warm relationship, especially after she married her husband for love over advancement.

Related Quests

• A Mother's Obsession: Help Mirri Elendis find her missing mother.
• Dead Weight: Help Mirri Elendis free her mother from filial duty and recover a stolen Dwarven relic.

Quest-Related Events

A Mother's Obsession

Irenni in chains within Inner Sea Armature

Mirri will get a letter from her father who says Irenni had gone missing during her latest jaunt. While she can be gone for weeks at time, Irenni would not go out of contact for so long. After getting information out of Mirtulivon in Stormhold, you learn that Irenni went to meet with Edvilda Stone-Stalker in Stonefalls about a lead on her father's lost Dwemer Puzzle Box.

Once in Stonefalls, you find that Irenni was captured by outlaws based in the Inner Sea Armature. Once in the delve you and Mirri can fight your way through the outlaws, and head to the center room. Irenni can be found chained up ... and mixing cake batter:

Irenni Elendis: "Mirri? Mirri! Am I glad to see you, scrib. Get me out of these shackles."

Mirri Elendis: "Mom! Do you have any fetching idea how worried—wait … are you cooking?"

Irenni will be happy to meet you:

"Friend of my daughters? Or maybe … well, you look nice. We'll get properly introduced after I'm out of these shackles."

After you remove her shackles, you can talk to Irenni and hear her story:

"Don't mind Mirri. She takes too much after her father. I've been dying to finally meet the person my daughter's been adventuring with.
Though I hadn't planned on being chained up like a common criminal upon our first meeting."

How did you wind up like this?

"I was negotiating a lead from a contact I met out by Steamfont and talks got a little heated. She was trying to take me for a ride, I could tell, and we must have caught the attention of these feckless s'wits. They tried to rob us."

Is that how Edvilda died?

"She tried to make a run for it and they cut her down without a second thought. Figured I'd take my chances with another approach. Offered to be their cook if they spared my life. Fortunately, they aren't picky. I was beginning to run out of recipes."

We probably shouldn't linger here.

"No, I suppose not. Won't be long before one of these fools gets bored or hungry and comes to swipe something from the pantry.
You've done a fine job looking after Mirri, so I'll follow your lead, but don't think we're done talking!"

Let's go.

Speaking with Irenni while escorting her:

"Don't hover over me like a mother netch. I can keep up with you two youngings."

Reaching the exit to delve:

Irenni Elendis: "Nicely done. I can see why you like them, Mirri."

Once outside, Mirri will begin yelling at her mother about the risks she keeps taking ^{[verification needed — conversation may differ it Liam died previously]}:

Mirri Elendis: "Don't think you're free and clear just because we escaped the bandits. What were you thinking?"

Irenni Elendis: "Oh, come now, Mirri. I've been doing this since before you were in diapers."

Mirri Elendis: "And you're not getting any younger! We almost lost Liam, and you nearly lost this! Would you trade it for that stupid puzzle box?"

Irenni Elendis: "Liam's scarf? Mirri—I … I'm sorry. I'm sorry I worried you all. It's just … I'll let it go."

Mirri Elendis: "We love you, mom. We're your family. Go home."

When the conversation finishes, you can ask Irenni what the deal is with the Puzzle Box:

"Well, now I feel the fool. I made you all worry. Dragged you into this mess. Sorry to be such a pain in the arse, as my daughter would put it."

Does this mean you're going to stop running off on a whim?

"Maybe it is time I hung up my adventurer's ruck and settled in with my worrywart of a husband. I just hate leaving things unfinished."

Why is this puzzle box so important to you?

"It was my father's prized possession. He spent decades trying to unravel its mysteries, until it was stolen from him. Then he spent the rest of his life trying to get it back. And most of mine after he died. I thought it might finally make him happy."

If you spoke to Mirri and haven't turned in the quest yet:

"Why are you both watching me like hawks? I said I was sorry."

After speaking with Mirri and completing the quest:

"Well, this little misadventure wasn't a total wash. I did finally get to meet you. Don't be a stranger now. I'll expect Mirri to bring you by for tea and biscuits. Her father has a source for the best scrib jelly in Mournhold."

Dead Weight

Once you have rescued her mother, Mirri will ask for your help in finding the puzzle box so it no longer plagues her mother's mind. Your audience with Bralen Elendis's spirit is awkward, as he insults everyone, but he does reveal what happened to him. He was murdered by his friend, Onimiril was a guild mage who helped him study the box, only to steal it and kill Bralen when he discovered the truth. You eventually track the box down in Avanchnzel in the Rift and retrieve it.

Mirri will send word to her mother to meet you in Othrenis, where you can bring the relic to Bralen resting place for some closure. When near the Elendis Family Plot, Irenni will arrive:

Irenni Elendis: "Mirri? Is that you? It had better not be another skeleton!"

Mirri Elendis: "We're here mom, and we've brought granddad's puzzle box. Would you lay it on the shrine for her?"

Irenni is amazed that you have it:

"Do you really have it? The puzzle box? Truthfully, I barely remember what it looks like."

When you place the puzzle cube, Bralen will be summoned and you can witness the terrible family reunion:

Irenni Elendis: "Father."

Bralen Elendis: "You finally did your duty. Or rather your daughter and some n'wah did. Success—once removed—is so very like you."

Irenni Elendis: "All you've ever cared about was what I could do for you. Well, this is the last favor."

Mirri Elendis: "That goes for us as well."

Bralen is acting exactly as Irenni remembers him:

"I knew he'd never change. All these years dead and he's only grown more bitter and jealous. Obsessed with house politics and prestige, like so many others. Stupid."

Speaking with Bralen, he is dismissive of his family's efforts to retrieve the cube, but is begrudgingly grateful. Afterwards, you may overhear Bralen talking to Irenni before he goes:

Bralen Elendis: "Irenni. You … are forgiven."

Bralen Elendis: "If you want my advice on carrying on our good name. You may come to me again."

Irenni Elendis: "Oh, may I? How gracious. I can manage without you, father, but … I may come again. To visit."

After completing the quest you can talk to Irenni, she is sad that Mirri ended up having to take her burden:

"I told Mirri I'd let it go. She didn't have to take on this problem for me. And drag you along with her. I never wanted to saddle my children with my problems, like my father did with me, but I've gone and done it anyway."

She did this because she cares about you, not because it's expected of her.

"I know. It's in her nature to look after others. I'm glad she's got someone reliable to look after her when she needs it. She's liable to wind as tangled up in worry as her father and get an ulcer otherwise.
Be a bad influence, like her mother."

Do you think you'll be able to make peace with your father?

"Who knows. He's been blistering my backside like an ornery shalk since I've been old enough to walk. I've got a thick skin for him, but that stupid trinket was like a deep splinter wedged between us. Now that it's plucked, maybe the rift will heal."