Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-10207438-20130806022708/@comment-1188343-20150304123930

No, I was nearby the Abandoned Shack, and I have the base game, by the way.

Yesterday, whilst adventuring with my husband Athis, I though "Hey, I should go to Blackreach and harvest those ore veins again," so I fast traveled to the Alftand Lift, which the door always seems to be open after using it the first time, unlike the other Lifts in Skyrim. So I fast traveled there, and nearby is two men fighting a snow bear. One gets wounded and drops to his knees, and Athis fires an arrow at the bear and kills it. I walk up to the bear to loot it and the two men are Farkas and ... Torvald ... or Torvar ... whatever his name is. If he isn't an "active" follower, or married to you and at home, Athis is supposed to be with this random encounter, and he was, but in another, totally unpredictable way. And he didn't want to leave, either. I had to shout him up the hill to the Lift.

Ever notice that a follower will sometimes not follow you to a certain location? It turns out that if they can't pass a certain spot (for whatever reason), they will try to find a way around, even if this route takes forever. I shouted Athis up the hill, and I didn't notice at first that he wasn't on the Lift when I descended. But I got to Blackreach, and he wasn't there, so I took the Lift back up to the surface, stood there for a bit, and he comes running from the direction of Alftand. He was going to go all the way around, through the whole of Alftand and most of Blackreach to get where I would have been. Oy! Make sure your followers are where they need to be, or they may do something drastic!