Followers do not die...sort of. When they lose all health, they crouch for a while to rest up before rejoining the fight.

However...

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT ever ever hit a follower if they are low on health or resting. Your damage can kill them. So be mindful with those flamethrower hands of death. Also, watch where you shout. I have knocked her off a few cliffs with Unrelenting Force.

There's one Follower who is not as fragile though. If you want it spoiled, highlight the empty spot below.

Lucien Lechance is an obtainable follower.

The one follower is actually a summon who stays permanently. Once he takes fatal damage (You murdering him, or certain other conditions), they can be summoned again without penalty. The Summon power only works once a day, but they will last forever until murdered.

Oh okay. Thank you for explaining that. Next time I play I shall add her to my team~ Cx

I killed Lydia by accident. :(

Don't you guys ever save? :C

The game autosaves every time you zone, which is pretty often, so I tend not to save that much. And, at that point, I didn't know followers could permanently die, so I just went along with it. She wasn't all that useful, anyway, since I fight in-close and she would get in my way a lot. I imagine she works better for mages, though I did get some use out of her as an archer.

Oh, well. There are other companions. :p

I'm glad they added companions to Skyrim ^^

She...has saved me a few times. As cheesy as this is going to sound, I did have a moment where I was about to die, and she literally came back from death to leap in front, take the hit, and deliver the killing blow to a frost troll. So I pretty much owe her a blood debt.

That's pretty epic, Salone.

Also, I'm just going to note, I find the hostility of some NPC's immersion-breaking. Sneaking around in the sewers beneath Riften, I come upon a "Lowlife", sneak up right behind him with an arrow nocked and trained on him, then I try to talk to him... and he starts flailing at me with his fists. If he would have just been civilized, he'd still be alive. >_>

ROFL Suzerain xD That is hilarious

I wanna get this game obscenely bad. I'll get it for Christmas if not sooner, but that's so long for Skyrim. :c

I swear if i get this game i will love in it so hard.

However good you think this game is... it's better, trust me. :p

I was absolutely blown away when I first got it. Hell, I'm still blown away every time I load it up. Ironically, the opening sequence was actually the worst for me -- don't judge it on that. The game improves about 1000% as soon as you get to go off and do whatever you want.

Oh yeah, those lowlifes are kinda...erratic.

Oh, never ever attack a chicken in town ever. If you thought murdering someone was bad, wait until you kill someone's livestock. And yeah, the opening sequence took way too long. Not to mention at no point does it give you the ability to finally confirm your starting choices. That irked me. I don't want to do all that again every time I make a new character. But honestly, my current should be juuuust fine.

I like the guys who become your best friends after you challenge them to a fistfight, beat them down, and then take 100 of their gold. They make terrible decisions, and I appreciate them for it.

I so wanted to kill that anti-Dunmet racist in Candlehearth Hall. He's a disgrace to all Nords. Had to settle for brawling with him...

Come to think of it, I might go hunt him down when I'm next in that area.

I just got this game, I'm so lost but it's so fun hahaha I just became part of the Dark Brotherhood.

I should be getting Skyrim today after work- or tomorrow. ^^ I'm excited~

i still don't have skyrim D8
but my brother said he wants to buy it lol
cuz he's getting a PS3 from a friend, cuz his friend doesn't want the PS3 anymore

and when we have the PS3 we definitly will buy skyrim LOL
i'm excited as to when we will get the PS3 xD

I got Skyrim the other day but sadly my video card is not up to the task (suspected that but thought I'd try. I love Elder Scrolls games. I can always get Oblivion in the meantime until I get a new comp).

Didn't get past the first cutscene before problems hit but I did make my character. After three hours of on and off tweaking I think the process might be a little excessive. For once I didn't make a Khajit first character. I tried, but they didn't have the features I was hoping for. I fiddled around but didn't get a character I was satisfied with. I miss the different ear styles that you can get in Morrowind.

Had the same issue with hair and war paint for my nord. Gave up on the warpaint and just went with scars and passable hair. Maybe it's the snow (here and in game) but I couldn't help but thing that those would be cold hairstyles!

Anyone else want to kill the redguard captain lady?

Has anyone been to the dungeon called Alftland/Blackreach yet? Incredible. Absolutely incredible. Frozen cave leads to derelict Dwemer ruin leads to sprawling, cavernous, majestic subterranean city lit by bioluminesence complete with an underground river and waterfall. Simply breathtaking.

In other news, I fought my first two dragons at once today, they decided to descend on the village of Rorikstead. Was epic. Shadowmere held off the generic Elder Dragon while I took on the named one. Unfortunately, the village mayor lost his life tragically in the attack.

Then, after that, I was attacked by 4 four more dragons over the course of the next hour. Of course, I'm wielding the Dragonbane katana I got from the Blades' temple now, so they go down really quickly.

I off-hand the Blade of Woe which is just brutal on sneak attacks. Also have an Exquisite Ebony Bow, Epic Elven Longsword of the Blaze (+25 fire damage!), and Dawnbreaker forged to Exquisite -- which makes undead explode!

I so love my Ancient Shrouded Armor...

I didn't really get into Oblivion, but I really liked Morrowind and played one of the older Elder Scrolls Games. I modded my Morrowind to death, mostly for nicer graphics, but I loved the plot and game play.

That being said, I have mixed feelings about Skyrim. I'll probably wait to see what kind of reaction it gets before I buy it.

Im not too far in only about lvl 20 ish jus finished theifs guild line Dat nightengale armor its soooo sexy. Im using mehrunes Razor and a Superior Elven dagger im pretty much one shot anything i find when i sneak attack it o3o

Do you have the gloves from the Dark Brotherhood yet? Those *double* melee sneak attack damage. I have literally never had something survive a sneak attack from even one of my daggers, let alone both of them.

I have them but i love the nightengale armor cause i more sneaky i avoid killing when i can so the lock pick really helps. Plus the armor looks awesome ^^;; also i sometimes use a sword main hand so that 15% helps

I have no idea -- I'm 60 hours in and haven't touched the Stormcloaks quest. :p

I've been kind of disappointed with the Daedric quests so far. Being a light armor/one-handed assassin, a lot of the items aren't of that much use to me. I just got Boethiah's Ebony Mail, which is really cool, but I can't use it.

So far Dawnbreaker is my favorite artifact. Makes undead 'splode!

Not being a mage, even the Black Star isn't of much use to me. :(

Success! I fixed my cutscene problem, or rather, it fixed itself after I finally got around to upgrading to Windows 7. Mouse lag hit but I used the ini file tweak for that and it's mostly better now. It's not the best so far but my comp isn't up to par either so it's adequate as long as I slow my running down a little to not zoom ahead of my mouse.

Playing a little on my brother's computer. Level 5 and partway into the first dungeon. I've done more menial tasks like cooking and smithing and such than much else. I haven't found a whole lot of kill outside of bandits but in a way it's nice not to be attacked every thirty feet by something. I really like that they made things like alchemy so much easier. I like the little stations much better to play around with then toting 80 pounds of alchemical equipment around or getting it when you want to try a potion. I've made several potions already that are actually useful!

And the elf thing, yeah, Nords just don't like elves. It came up back in Morrowind too.

Never played Oblivion either. Just Morrowind and Daggerfall. I haven't finished either. Our Daggerfall copy was glitched so we never could finish the main quest, which didn't stop us from playing the game in the slightest, and in Morrowind I just haven't gotten around to it yet. ;)

As if the main quest has anything to do with the finishing these games. :p

I hit level 40 today, I have a feeling my leveling is going to slow down soon since most of my main skills are close to hitting 100. I doubt I'll get past 50 sincce I'm really focusing on the assassin archetype with this character, don't want to branch out into magic/heavy armor just to level.

I do wish the Thieve's Guild would give me more respect. I mean I'm the Listener of the Brotherhood, I'm wearing Epic Ancient Shrouded Armor, I have 95 sneak and 80 lockpicking... and Vex feels the need to boast about how she's the sneakiest person in the guild to me. Yeah, right.

Maybe Skyrim doesn't have a script for her being not that way. Have you beat her rank?

Nope, I'm still a newbie. Which is what I'm saying, I should start off higher just because I'm the best assassin in Skyrim. >_>

Yea Suzerain...you're too proud of it to be the best :p

Compared to what, the Dark Brotherhood guys who come after you and try to assassinate you by CONFRONTING YOU ON A ROAD IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, AND ANNOUNCING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO (try to) KILL YOU? :p

Not much competition. :D

The only reason you aren't the best is because the ones who are have NOT announced themselves or tried to go after you yet :p

I wish enemies could sneak in this game. Would make it more interesting. I mean, think about it, you're in your house resting after a long day's adventuring, then all the sudden you wake up to some ninja slitting your throat for 30x damage. :p

Okay, maybe not such a good idea...

And, really, if there *is* a better assassin than me, they can't be by much. Like I said, nearly all my skills are maxed out and I'm wearing enchanted, ancient Dark Brotherhood armor, not to mention my new-crafted Daedric dagger and bow, and my Blade of Woe.

Basically, if there's a better assassin out there, I have bigger problems to worry about because they're a game-hacking reality warper. :p

That's something Elder Scrolls just does. The groups laugh at you until you better their rank. Just talk to the right guy a few times and usually you get up there until they insist that you actually need to do stuff to get the next rank. Maybe Skyrim is different though. Haven't gotten that far. I'm still going after the golden claw.

and jumping in rivers to catch the odd fish 'cause I feel like it.

Apparently, in Skyrim, while they will eventually respect you more, the old lines don't go away, so you still get insulted even when you're grand-master of everything. :p

That's what taunting is for. ;)

Kind of depressed, I've gotten to the point where I don't need better gear, so there's no point to opening treasure chests or trying to get gold. I've seen all the enemies, and it just feels like there's no point to playing with this character anymore.

I barely did any of the quests, just elected to wander around and explore, but I worry it powered me up too fast and now I'm out of things to do. I only finished the Companions and the Dark Brotherhood, got a ways through the main quest and dabbled in the Thieves Guild. I'll probably finish those, but I'm honestly itching to start a new character.

I think my next run will be with a heavy armor/greatsword/enchanting/restoration/blacksmithing build. I wish I could add destruction in there, but that doesn't go very well with 2h weapons, unfortunately.

I also wish there was a paladin quest like the Knights of the Nine. There's even any paladin-looking armor in the game from what I've seen, so I'll probably have to RP a darker character (when my first was already an assassin...)

Still, awesome game. :D

Well im sure the DLC might add some paladin like armor but i know there is the dawnbringer that destroys undead weapon wise

Then go ahead and start a new character and do the main quest with that one. I run three characters on Morrowind still, depending on what power level I feel like playing with. I'm already contemplating a second character in Skyrim even though I'm still in the first quest dungeon!