Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31246660-20180322124320/@comment-36130067-20180726092634

Bilitis wrote:

>Your staff is able to help so I recommend giving them good equipment. As for the safest homestead to me it's Heljarchen Hall. I'm rarely attacked living there : there are only giants nearby and they spawn rarely. Winstad Manor is a nightmare, constantly under attack (bandits, giants, creatures ...) I feel Like Lakeview is better.

Thanks for the reply. I am now building Lakeview and the housecarl Rayya has arrived. I can make her the steward as well, but since you say the staff can all help fight attackers, it seems like a good idea to have a separate steward if possible. The article on stewards says that certain people might offer to become stewards if they are brought to the property.

I assume that in order to bring him or her to the property, a candidate must become a follower. If so, what happens to my present follower, Lydia, whom I want to marry? Should I marry her first and then look for another follower?

I am not in too much of a hurry to find a steward, since I am building the house myself, but a steward will be necessary for getting a carriage driver, bard, and animals. I am bearing in mind the warning read somewhere not to remodel the origianl small house as an entryway until a steward is in place, because doing so makes it impossible to hire a steward.