SaveVsBedWet
Well-Known Member
OK...I'm fairly certain this issue is directly related to the "follower-won't-leave-you" bug, usually in conjunction with Companion quests. I had an issue awhile back where Farkas kept running after me, even if I told him to "part ways". He eventually ticked me off enough that I killed him - big mistake. I think the game still thinks Farkas is following me, though he's lying face-down/ass-up in a meadow somewhere. This is unfixable, and several other forums indicate that unless you go back to a save point before the "event" you can't undo it by waiting, taking on other follower quests, or by any other means. I guess I'll have to shelf Skyrim in favor of other means of entertainment until a patch comes out for this issue, since it's now brought the Dawnguard quest to complete halt. Thanks Bethesda...great programming.
Can't even fix it with the console or the Skyrim Resource Kit or whatever that allows you to set the flags and variables for every NPC in the game directly?! I used the official editor (whatever its name was mentioned above) to go in and make several followers marriage capable who were not as well as to change their appearance. Seems you should be able to also change the flags associated with whether or not you have followers as well as whether or not a particular character has been marked a follower.