Our Rotten Roots Walkthrough: Choices & Lacra's History

Our Rotten Roots is where Lacra’s chain stops being a partnership of convenience and becomes a story you are personally responsible for finishing. The fourth quest in her sequence sends you to the Westridge Outpost Tower, costs 4 time segments, and ends with the reveal that reframes everything she has said — and not said — up to that point.

How Our Rotten Roots Unlocks

The quest activates automatically after Hive and Seek closes — that is the cave infiltration where you deal with Chonk the Insatiable and talk the kobold hive down from Isbrand. Once Isbrand is safe and Lacra has processed what the hive showed her, the chain moves to the outpost tower. No extra gates, no Infamy requirement: unlike Crake’s chain, Lacra’s just needs you to keep showing up.

Budget the day before you start. Four time segments is a heavy spend — a quarter of a full day — and the quest does not pause the 30-day family clock. The time segments guide has the full economy if you are running tight.

Our Rotten Roots: Step by Step

Step	Objective	Notes
1	Meet Lacra at the Westridge Outpost	Northwest of the city; follow the marker
2	Clear the outpost approach	Human guards, mostly; night entry halves the fight
3	Ascend the tower	Use Focus Mode to track the route; loot as you climb
4	Find the records Lacra is after	The tower holds the paper trail of Brencis’s local operations
5	Watch the reveal play out	Lacra’s history — why she crossed the world to kill the Knyaz

The tower climb is the mechanical heart of the quest. It is a vertical fight more than a hard one: enemies arrive in pairs, elevation breaks line of sight, and Coen’s toolkit — bats for scouting, Shadowstep for gap-closing — shines. Save before the top floor. Not because you can fail the reveal, but because what Lacra says up there deserves your full attention, not a reload.

What the Reveal Actually Changes

Lacra came to Vale Sangora for a reason, and Our Rotten Roots finally names it. The specifics are the quest’s payload — we are keeping the worst of it out of this guide’s opening paragraphs — but the shape matters for your run: her vendetta against Brencis is older, more personal, and more deserved than the journal’s terse “her own reason to want the knyaz dead” suggested.

Two practical consequences:

• Her dialogue opens up. From this quest forward, conversation options that treat her grief as real — rather than as intel — become available. They matter most in Midnight Reckoning, her chain’s finale.
• The finale hardens. Knowing what the tower holds, the assault on Greifberg Castle at the end of her chain stops being a job and becomes her life’s work. The Midnight Reckoning walkthrough covers how that finale branches.

Choices Inside the Quest

The big choice is tonal rather than mechanical: how Coen responds to the reveal. Community consensus across walkthroughs (IGN, AllThings.how) is consistent — respond with acknowledgment, not strategy. Lacra does not need the plan explained back to her. She needs the person standing next to her to have heard it.

There is no wrong answer that fails the chain. But the warm response path is the one that pays off if you are pursuing her romance or aiming for the fullest version of The Patricide ending.

What Comes Next

Our Rotten Roots is followed by The Night of Horrors — an optional, trophy-awarding detour — and then Midnight Reckoning, the finale where you storm Greifberg Castle at night as vampires. Both ally chains should be complete before A Deal with the Devil; the endgame guide has the checklist.

One warning carried over from the Lacra character guide: her chain contains the missable A Mother’s Plea, hidden between earlier quests. If you are running her chain late in the calendar, verify that quest triggered before committing to the finale.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why won’t Our Rotten Roots start? Confirm Hive and Seek is fully closed — including the Isbrand dialogue after the Chonk fight. The chain only advances when that conversation ends.

Is the tower fight hard? It is a level-appropriate climb, not a boss check. Night entry and Focus Mode trivialize most of it.

Does this quest affect the ending? It does not change which endings exist — it changes how The Patricide lands. The ending unlock is binary (chain complete or not); the emotional and dialogue content is where this quest pays out.

Can I romance Lacra from here? This quest is where her romance path properly opens. Earlier warmth helps, but the post-reveal dialogue is the real door.