User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-2219755-20120817105038/@comment-66716-20120818181046

The only reason I take anybody with me is to be a pack mule. Followers aren't really good for anything else. They just get in the way during fights and repeat themselves often.

I haven't given much back story to either of my characters. Pretty much none at all to my second one, but my first character has a little history. She's the decendant of the hero from Oblivian, who wanted to go out and see if she could bring some honor back to the family after people forgot about what her ancestor had done for the world. She clearly got more than she expected.