Wasn´'t a secret that Zandik was obsessed with Khaenri'ah's machines and human evolution, but you didn't think of him as a weirdo, just as a curious person and a bit grumpy and keep trying to be friends with him

You were sent with him, Dastur and Sohreh to investigate the Ardravi Valley, but Sohreh got injured by a wild animal, and unfortunately she passed away during the expedition...

You all were worried and sad, but him? he was more interested on taking the machines he found during the expedition to the academy to examine them. Thanks to that incident and his obsession for synthetic and perfect human life, the academy decided to expulse him and banish him from Sumeru

The night he was going to leave, you decide to go see him and look for answers, he looks at you and say: "Those idiots... don't understand the true potential of this..."