Worst Places To Lose Your Followers In Skyrim | Screen Rant
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, misplacing one of the many followers available is rarely an enjoyable experience, but some places are worse than others to leave them in. Vast caves full of enemies or areas that are difficult to navigate can be the worst areas that the Dragonborn can lose one of their faithful allies. Retrieving them can be difficult and annoying, especially since they don't show up on Skyrim's map.
In Skyrim, there are 66 followers that are available for players to take with them on their quest to slay Alduin the World-Eater. They're loyal and true to the Dovahkiin, but unfortunately, it's sometimes easy for players to misplace them at some point in their journey. Whether it's Lydia, one of the Companions, or Serana of the Volkihar vampires, losing a follower often means facing the scariest and most horrific enemies in Skyrim alone, as well as leaving valuable loot behind. Players can also only take one with them at a time, so unless their lost follower dies, they're forced to navigate Skyrim solo for a short while.
There are a few ways that players can lose their followers in Skyrim. Telling them to wait somewhere for whatever reason and then forgetting about them and leaving is possibly the most common, but some of the glitches that the game is known for can result in them disappearing completely. They usually come back to the player's side quickly if they lose them this way, but it's still an obnoxious aspect of Skyrim. Even so, they can be invaluable if the Dovahkiin can keep them around, so long as players avoid recruiting some of Skyrim's followers like Sven of Riverwood.
Blackreach is a cave system deep beneath Skyrim, one that connects three different Dwemer cities. It's a vast area with more to do than a cursory examination will reveal, but it's also one of the more annoying places to lose Lydia or one of Skyrim's other many followers. Its size means that if a player leaves their follower there, it's exceedingly difficult to find them again, and since much of it looks the same and it's rather easy to get lost, they may spend no small amount of time looking for their chosen companion. The area also contains some of Skyrim's most hidden and easily-missable quests; one of them, to find 20 Red Nirnroot, is very time-consuming and frustrating, and is made even worse when the player finally leaves the cave only to remember that they had their follower wait for them somewhere inside.
Blackreach also has many tough enemies that players will have to fight off, both when first exploring it and if they have to return in order to retrieve their follower. Falmer and the Chaurus and Frostbite Spiders that follow them, with their debilitating poisons, are the least of the threats in Blackreach. Dragons and Dwemer Centurions await the player within one of Skyrim's biggest cave systems, and while they become less of an issue at higher levels, facing them without a follower can still be annoying and potentially hazardous, especially while searching through the entire cave. Exploring Blackreach before they're ready should be a mistake that Skyrim players only make once, and since followers can permanently die if they take enough damage, losing them could be the least-worst thing to happen to them if their Dragonborn is unprepared for the enemies within.
The Sightless Pit isn't one of Skyrim's most well-known locations, but it's another one of its worst places to leave followers. The entrance is a long drop down, and since followers can be buggy and jump the entire way at once, often dying, it's best to leave them outside and explore alone. This is one of the reasons why it's a bad place to leave them, since it can be easy for the follower to slip the player's mind once they're out of the cave and on their way to the next adventure. It's not too hard to retrieve them since they can just fast-travel to the pit, but if they've forgotten them for an extended period while they explore Skyrim's immersive open world, it may be tough to remember where they are.
If players manage to get their follower into the Sightless Pit without them dying, then they should make sure to keep them close. The Sightless Pit's name is not unearned, as it's almost pitch-black and extremely easy to get lost in without the aid of torches, spells like Candlelight, Magelight, and Vision of the Tenth Eye, or the Night Eye ability inherent to Khajiit and vampires. Even with these things, it can pose a massive challenge to low to mid-level players both due to the darkness and the many Falmer that inhabit the cave. Losing a follower inside usually means a great deal of fumbling around in the dark and fighting for sheer life in one of Skyrim's more unique and frustrating locations, making it one of the worst places to do so.
As bad as losing a follower in a massive Dwemer ruin or a dark cave is, possibly the worst place is anywhere in the wilds of Skyrim. Unmarked locations are everywhere, and the game's map is vast, so if a player loses their follower somewhere without a fast-travel point or an obvious landmark, it may be even harder to find them than if they were left in Blackreach or the Sightless Pit. Simply having a follower wait by a tree somewhere - or any point far from a recognizable location - could be the easiest way to never see them again. Players will have to wander around the last place they saw them in hopes of finding them, which without an actual starting point, could take ages.
Thankfully, there is a saving grace for players who manage to lose the best followers that Skyrim has to offer. If they've simply had them wait somewhere and forgotten about them, then they'll return to either the Dragonborn's home or their own starting point after three in-game days, so those who don't want to go hunting for them can simply sleep until they come back. They'll still have to retrieve them from where the player first met them unless they've married them, but they won't have to save scum in order to get their faithful companions and all of the loot they were carrying back, so unless they died or disappeared due to a glitch, losing a follower in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shouldn't be permanent.
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