Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-10207438-20130605182139/@comment-10056803-20130724200908

Ok, I found out Heimskr is a protected NPC, which means random NPCs will send him into bleedout as opposed to killing him, so since the Dragonborn is likely the only person in the world capable of killing him due to said status (read: one step down from essential), so I set him to the Follower faction and raised his relationship to ally. After sending Sanguine back to Morvunskar (Because of course sanguine is my follower thanks to the same codes), I picked up Heimskr as a follower. I fast traveled to the Throat of the World to show Paarthurnax my Talos-loving follower, but Heimskr refused to follow. So I told him back at whiterun that he's free, and picked up Sanguine and centerofcell'd to Proudspire in Solitude.

Long story short, Heimskr refuses to follow me as a follower. Dangit, I wanted to spam Talos fanfare at the Thalmor Embassy!