All ​Skyrim Followers And How To Get Them

Skyrim followers are more than just a few merry people following you into hell and back. These fierce companions will provide you with critical story lore, useful items, and best of all, accompany you when things get really tough. There are so many to locate across all of Tamriel, so we’ve rounded them all up here in this guide to make it easier for you.

Though, if it is a lover you’re looking for, you may also want to check out our Skyrim marriage guide, as well as our guide to Skyrim houses so you have somewhere to settle down and start your own family (or somewhere to store all that stuff you made your follower carry – we don’t judge).

Here’s everything in our Skyrim followers guide:

All Skyrim followers

Below, you can find a list of all Skyrim companions, where to find them, and the requirements you must meet to recruit them as your new pal. There are almost one hundred followers, so strap in – this is a long one.

Some required quests below involve decisions. It should go without saying, but don’t make a decision that goes against the Skyrim follower you want to join you. For example, you can’t have Cicero as a follower if you kill him in the quest The Cure for Madness, obviously – well, unless you decide to use Skyrim mods to resurrect him, that is.

Skyrim followers equipment

You can trade items with your follower by simply talking to them. If you want to give them better equipment, just ask them to carry it. You can’t force them to use it, but most of the time, Skyrim companions use the best items in their inventory.

You can also use them as a mule, as it were (“I am sworn to carry your burdens”, as Lydia dryly states). Give them all your heavy dragon bones and whatnot and you’re good to keep walking at full speed.

My Skyrim follower disappeared

If your Skyrim companion disappears, there are a few things you can try to fix it:

• Find a new follower, ask them to join you, and then go back to where the original follower lives to find them and recruit them again
• Fast travel to your last destination
• Sleep in a bed
• Restart the game

In general, the first of these options has always worked for me in my more-than-a-decade of playing this game on a way-too-regular basis, but the other options act as a solid back-up plan.

Can Skyrim followers die?

Believe it or not, but most Skyrim companions can die when not following you, other than the essential ones. If a battle starts in an area with one of these followers not actively attached to you, be careful.

Once companions are following you, they won’t die easily. Instead, when their health drops low, the follower becomes incapacitated. In this state, they can still die, but the enemy will stop targeting them. Once incapacitated, you need to move the fight away from them to avoid them getting caught in any AoEs or crossfire.

You can, however, kill your follower by your own hand. This means you need to be careful where you’re swinging. The number of times I personally have killed a follower while playing a ranged build is more than I’m happy to admit. If you’re super worried about this, just be sure to save often.

There you have it, all the Skyrim companions or Skyrim followers or whatever you want to call them. We’ve got more, too, with Skyrim maps, Skyrim cure vampirism, and Skyrim creation club guides.