LE Immersive Vanilla Followers

[RalinDrakus]

I was going to make a request that focused on requesting that the Gray-Mane brothers Avulstein and Thorald be made into followers. I discovered Rhowington's mod 'Return of Thorald': http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38534/? making me second guess a request. However, after completing Moss Mother Cavern quest for Valdr, I again reconsidered.

 

I mention those three NPC's: Avulstein, Thorald, and Valdr, because despite their interesting stories, despite our helping them, AND despite their surviving the quest, they do not become followers. There are many more that I could mention, but these three stand out to me because they don't even work with the option we can typically use to cure this situation - using ATF or similar mod to force the NPC to become a follower anyway. I tried this on all three. With the Gray-Mane brothers, after completing Missing in Action I used the Make Follower spell on both of them. Both tried to follow, had proper dialog, but still ran way to whatever realm of Oblivion Bethesda condemned them to. With Valdr, after completing his quest at Moss Mother Cavern and waiting for him to properly bury his comrades, I used the spell on him and although the spell seemed to work by notifying me that one less follower slot was now available, I couldn't engage him in conversation.

 

The point of all this is, has anyone considered making a sweeping mod that includes all the obviously intriguing NPC's that we do quests for or with, and making those who do not have the option to become followers? Rhowington did it for Thorald, and although I haven't had time test it yet he seems to have done an excellent job by making him fully voiced and updated his looks (He apparently did not modify the vanilla Thorald and just added a new NPC to the game with the backstory and custom dialog for Thorald). Not looking for anything that in depth; that could be a project for later if the interest in it really takes off. I know there are a LOT more than these three vanilla NPC's that I mentioned who should have become followers automatically. Angi for instance, as well as Sinding from Ill Met by the Moonlight. Is this a project that interests anyone? Or something that has already been done that I just haven't found yet?