Followers available in Tuxborn - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

Content known to be a risk of this includes:

• Most of Dawnguard: If you have a vanilla follower with you when you take Serana to Castle Volkihar to search for her mother, Serana will refuse to follow you. She will not, however, be aware of any custom followers. So for RP purposes, if nothing else, you may need to dismiss custom followers on your own, if you want to maintain the idea of Serana refusing to go anywhere with you if you have other people around she doesn't trust.
• Cidhna Mine: Gore and Remiel are both known to react to you being thrown into Cidhna Mine and behave as if they're arrested and thrown in with you. Other followers may just port in to join you, which can be extremely weird if you're supposed to be a prisoner and you wind up having multiple armed and armored followers with you!
• Forgotten City: Without getting into spoilers, this mod very, very much expects you to be alone, and one big part of it towards the end in particular makes little sense if you have anyone at all following you.
• Project AHO: Again, avoiding spoilers, this mod's entire point is pretty much built around you being by yourself. You can't trigger Project AHO in Tuxborn by accident, you have to go looking for it. So since you have that opportunity, dismiss followers appropriately first before you launch this mod.
• Warden of the Coast: This mod provides you with several NPCs that can be followers as part of its story, and its page on Nexus explicitly recommends against bringing in your own followers.
• The Wheels of Lull: This mod doesn't prevent you from bringing followers, but due to how it's designed, having more than one or two followers will make running this mod more difficult. See the Mod overview: Wheels of Lull page for more details.
• Vigilant: This mod is very much considered to be end-game content, and by its very nature, not really appropriate to run with most followers. Of the custom followers in Tuxborn, only Gore and Auri are known to be set up to interact with this mod, so you can consider bringing either of them if you want. In Gore's specific case, just be prepared for intense storytelling as a result.

Followers most recommended for a given role are in bold.

Inigo is another very well-loved and popular follower, featuring considerable commentary about many aspects of the game as well as lots of interactions with other custom followers. He is a Khajiit who's a former skooma junkie, and this gives some unique aspects to his interactions with you. To pick him up as a follower, you can find a note he's left for you on the bar in the Bee and Barb, or you can just go directly to the jail in Riften.

He is particularly entertaining if you're also running Lucien, as the two of them have great comedic chemistry with each other. And he's also an excellent follower to have with you if you're running Moonpath to Elsweyr, just to hear him taunting the Thalmor.

One detail about him which may or may not appeal to you, YMMV: he takes strong issue with the player's absorbing dragon souls, treating that very similarly to skooma addiction. Given that the Dragonborn can't exactly not absorb dragon souls, Inigo's scolding you about this can't be stopped, and he does eventually get very stringent about it.

Inigo has a custom "whistle" ability you can use if you get separated from him.

Jesper is a Whiterun guard you can find hanging out in the Bannered Mare. He is hands down the easiest follower to recruit: you just ask him to follow you, and he does.

He runs the exact same follower code as Lucien, as his creator worked with Lucien's creator to set Jesper up. So if you're familiar with how Lucien works, Jesper will work the same way.

Character-wise, this boy is not exactly well-looked-on by his fellow guards, and appears to really want to be a bard at heart. You'll hear him singing at random points in the Bannered Mare, even before you recruit him, and the guy does have pipes!

But he also seems to be a very simple sort of character, and very much a cinnamon roll. If this appeals to you, or if you like the idea of maybe helping him achieve becoming a bard, consider picking him up. He'll probably work best for Dragonborns who are likewise good guys/girls, or perhaps "rogues with hearts of gold" type Dragonborns. More nefarious Dragonborns, or even players who just don't like the idea of having walking Golden Retriever Puppy type lads as followers, may go from zero to "I will stab this guy the next time he opens his mouth" very quickly. ;D

He's a good option to consider, though, if you're trying to put together a posse to help you go take out Mirmulnir at the watchtower. If you do recruit him, be sure to give him weapons. His fellow guards have saddled him with a wooden sword, and until he has actual weapons, he won't be very useful to you.

Jesper does come with a spell you can use to summon him, although he is not carrying it on his person, and does not mention it when you recruit him. The spellbook, however, is easily acquired. Check around on the left side of Dragonsreach, and you will find the spellbook and a wooden sword on one of the rocks there. You can also find a copy of the spellbook in the Bannered Mare, behind the counter.

Katana is technically a package deal--because if you recruit her, her initial quest will eventually lead you to picking up Megara and Shale as additional followers. But at least right out of the gate, particularly if you start your playthrough in Solitude (for example, if you do the Relic Hunter start), she's a very strong early game follower to pick up.

Note that Katana is armed with a rifle. Her rifle is not acquirable by the player, or craftable. See the Armor and weapons available in Tuxborn page for info on what guns are available in Tuxborn.

When she enters combat, she will frequently teleport to the nearest opponent to deliver a sneak attack. While this is not an ability available in regular Skyrim, ESO Nightblade players should find this very familiar.

Katana is very reactive to events in the game, as well as your own personal state. She will frequently comment if you're overloaded with inventory, or if your health is low.

She cannot be romanced. As per her creator, she is canonically partnered with Megara. However, once you meet Shale, he is a romance option.

Once you recruit her, she will give you a Mystical Feather which grants you a power on your Powers menu that you can use to summon her, if you and she get separated.

Melana's big selling point as a follower is that she evolves, starting off as a fragile maiden you rescue from bandits, and eventually becoming a warrior in her own right. Be advised that her "fragile maiden" stage is very, very fragile, so YMMV on whether this works for you.

The quest to find her will auto-launch as soon as you enter Dead Man's Drink in Falkreath; you can't avoid that. So if you want to avoid picking her up as a follower, you might consider just ignoring that quest objective, and staying away from Bannermist Tower.

To get Melana to progress, you can spar with her to try to train her in weaponry. Be advised, however, that sparring with Melana may make any other followers you have with you interpret this as her attacking you! Which can result in a real fight breaking out between your followers.

To avoid this, you may wish to make other followers wait in one location, while you take Melana somewhere else to spar with her.

Alternately, the sparring is not actually required to make her progress; she will also pick up experience just by following you into combat. This will, however, be slower than training her directly.

Also, note that while Melana is trainable, her focus is so far known to be on melee combat. So you shouldn't expect her to be useful for ranged or magical fighting.

These two followers are additional NPCs added to Cidhna Mine by the mod Tuxborn is running to expand that location and plot. You can recruit them for help in breaking out of the mine, which can be very useful if you don't want to side with Madanach. Neither of them are very complex; they appear to just use vanilla follower code. But they are perfectly acceptable if all you need out of them is to be additional fighters. Once you run Cidhna Mine, you might consider using them as stewards for the Hearthfire houses.

There is also a side quest you can run on the island which will result in your acquiring a wolf, Faelor, as an animal follower. She can be useful in combat, and will follow you back to Skyrim, although she will never enter any buildings.