Healing a House

Getting to the Root of the Trouble

While you’re visiting the Telvanni settlement of Tel Mithryn, you might wish to investigate the outbuildings in addition to Neloth’s tower. Head up to the Tel Mithryn Apothecary, and you’ll meet Elynea Mothren, the caretaker of the tower; she is also an apothecary and a mycologist. She isn’t happy with her master Neloth. Inquire as to her perturbed nature. Neloth’s tower is in need of repair, and Elynea needs three taproots soaked in the Headwaters of the Harstrad River to fix it. Perhaps you might be of service?

You can complete this objective in several ways:

• Locate any apothecary merchant and hope they have taproot to sell.
• Scavenge in town or in a dungeon on the off-chance you find some. For example, your home in Riften, Honeyside, contains two specimens.
• But by far the best plan is to hunt down Spriggan, slay them, and then search them for taproot. You’ll usually find one on each corpse. That means facing three of them. In this example, we journeyed back to Skyrim, trekked to Haafingar Hold, and entered Shadowgreen Cavern, where a trio of Spriggan are known to reside. After slaying them, we Fast-Traveled back to Solstheim.
• Or, if you wish to stay in Solstheim, you can wander the northern parts of the area, searching for Spriggan on a small island (Secondary Location: [S.NO] Giant Nirnroot Island) to the north and slightly northwest of Frossel. There are Spriggans there as well.

• Taproot (3)

Once you’ve secured three taproot, your objective updates:

The Headwaters of Harstrad is in the northern climbs of Solstheim, north of the Temple of Miraak and west of the Wind Stone. Locate this body of water and head west toward the waterfall and into Harstrad Cave through the cascading ice water. Once inside this grotto, prepare for another Spriggan attack. Slay it, optionally checking the crumpled skeleton and large chest it was guarding; then stand in the middle of the water and activate the headwaters. The taproots should now be soaked to Elynea’s satisfaction.

Quest Conclusion

Back in Tel Mithryn, visit Elynea’s Apothecary once more, and inform her of your soggy taproot status. She’ll take two, but you must take the third taproot and plant it into the wall of the withered house.

Traipse over to the Tel Mithryn tower, float up to Neloth’s quarters, and survey the chamber. A bulbous and shiny protuberance on a wall to the northwest requires your taproot-planting skills. Once the taproot is inserted, your objective updates.

Back at the apothecary, tell Elynea her soaked taproot is planted, and you receive a curt thanks and a couple of potions for your troubles. The quest concludes.

• [Leveled] Potion of Well-Being (2)

Postquest Activities

If you return after a few days, Elynea is happy to sell you more potions of Well-Being, in addition to the usual alchemy supplies. If you look closely, you will see that the exterior of Neloth’s home is looking better. Inside, Neloth has a new chamber and a few new test subjects.