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warman004

New Member
In Skyrim, I went and pick-pocketed Faendal and replaced his clothes with my armor to see if he would wear it. But, he didn't equip mine, instead he wore his other clothes that were no longer in his inventory? Is there a way to fix this?
 

Dabiene Caristiana

Your friendly neighborhood weirdo
From what I understand, companions/followers will equip the appropriate gear given to them when you have them tag along. However, when you dismiss them they will sometimes automatically go to their default gear. If they don't, fast travel to their original starting location (where you pick them up) like Riverwood for Faendal, and they will be wearing their clothes/starting gear. Kinda weird.

But yeah, this is from my experience.
 

khazan99

Semi-professional cabbage collector
It's been awhile since I tackled this issue but.... there are "default" clothes/armor that some NPCs have that you cannot see when you look at their inventory, and therefore, you cannot remove these items through a trade or other means. For example, Lydia wears a default set of steel armor, so no matter what other armor or clothes you give her, she won't wear anything else but the default steel armor (unless what you give her has a higher armor rating than Steel armor...). Note that you also will never 'see' her default armor in her inventory.

I haven't tried with Faendal, but I am assuming he has a set of default clothes as well, and you don't see them in his inventory. Thus pickpocketing his clothes might be possible, but when you give him another set of clothes to wear, the game simply resets to his default set instead.

If you gave him armor to wear, instead of clothes, however, he should wear the armor. Try leaving him (dialogue option to either Wait here) and then travelling to another area and returning to him, and see if that works.

Finally, if you are on PC, there are lots of mods which clear up the clunky issue of followers and their quirky inventory issues.


(EDIT: ^ Dabiene is correct -- dismissing a follower causes them to revert back to their default gear)
 

Sah

Well-Known Member
hello warman004 :) & welcome to the Skyrim Forums:cool:

if you use Faendal as a follower.....and you talk to him, he has an option to caries things for you.....when you give him armors, rings, amulets he will put on ones relevant to his class and sometimes put on a hat instead of a helmet:confused:...if you just want him as a mule to carries things he will use a verity of objects...he will use any potions you give him to carry:mad:....like reiteration or invisibility if hes in danger and dose a runner:sadface:...........then you are all on your own:eek: ............with no potions:confused:

IF you want to customize himo_O.........give him just what you want him to wear....armor helmet gloves boots ring & amulet.......a bow & arrows (make sure he gets the best class arrows)....Light armor works best on him...........and give him a (weaker than his bows damage) sword & a shield to revert to as his secondary weapons when he runs out of arrows.

if you release Faendal from your service BUT leave your stuff in his inventory, he will in time revert to his normal role working for Hod :sadface: so he has no need for armors he reverts back to his original clothing (default) but all your stuff is still there if you chose him again.;)
 

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