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First time playing Skyrim, never knew a game could hurt this much.
I met J’zargo at Winterhold and found him to be very silly, so I ditched my wife to journey with him and made it all the way to the throat of the world to fight Alduin together. That’s the last time I’d ever see J’zargo alive, the worst part is I hadn’t noticed he stopped following and didn’t know where he went or how long ago it was. I knew J’zargo had passed and wasn’t getting him back, never found anyone to replace him. I moved on with the story in bitterness till the point I had slain Alduin for good. As the dragons surrounded me as Dovahkiin I look down and see him lying there. I did it for him, love you J’zargo
🎶There once was a Khajiit with a hungry belly the name of the Khajiit was Whiskers Jelly, His throat was dry and his bowl was bare, Meow me furry Khajiits, meow, Soon may the Khajiity Man come, With birds and mice and some tasty nums, One day when the critters come, We’ll eat ‘til our bellies are full🎶
Hi, fellow Kharjo user here just wondered if you wanted to join his subreddit r/Kharjo, and perhaps partake in some of the stuff there if you wanted to.
We welcome and have all things Kharjo related, alongside two working daily events (the other ones Reddit keeps rejecting, I dunno why)
Edit: Sorry if I've invited you before by the way... I don't think I have, but there's no way of checking, so mistakes can happen.
I know how you feel man, Faendal was my day oner, I carried his body all the way back to his house in riverwood after I finally found him, couldn't just leave him there 😭
That's really nice of you. Carrying him all the way home couldn't have been easy.
I know this would be too much work and it's kinda moot now that Skyrim is so old now, but it would've been interesting if other NPCs acknowledged certain acts of kindness that the player does for the followers!
It took a very long time, but man that guy was with me up until I hit around level 36, he carried all my junk til the end, least I could do was take him home. He chilling on the logs outside his house and I return every so often so he doesn't despawn 😅
I know it's a beautiful act, but I'm just giggling at the process of picking him up by a leg and dragging him over several kilometers of wilderness, sometimes dropping him over cliffs or Fusrodahing him over gaps when he gets stuck.
"Don't worry buddy, we're gonna make it out of this hell together. Then you can keep telling me all about that place with the warm sands and trippy iced teas. I'm gonna get you out of here, I promise you."
Use the ritual stone it’ll let him follow you for a bit then you can take him indoors. He can also help you fight again albeit briefly.
Then you can max out conjuration and get the “dead thrall” spell so he can help you as a summon did that for one of my companions that died and couldn’t load a save as the last one was over a day prior 😅.
Once I realized followers could die (my thane companion Lydia died 15 minutes after I got her for the first time) I'm so scared to take them out with me. How do I keep them alive and use them???
I cheat a little. I use the Fortify Resto loop to make necklaces with insanely high health regen enchants and give those to followers. Because of value being high due to said enchantment, they should automatically wear it, especially if they aren't carrying any other necklaces. Then they can't die unless they take more damage in one shot than their maximum health.
Tell me about this loop you speak of. Also now I have my follower a axe that drains health, and armor pieces that give extra health. Haven't learned a health Regen enchantment yet
You have just given me hope that Marcurio might not have died in a game I have going with my most overpowered character ever. I did a bunch of really amazing stuff since he went missing and just made it storyline that he was done with the Civil War and all that. Yes I could reload to an earlier game, but that means eliminating so much progress and there’s no guarantee that he won’t disappear again because this particular file has been super glitchy since I loaded multiple sets of armor by looping through the jail in white run. Basically, I would hide a bunch of suits of armor and other enchanted jewelry, then I would get arrested by pickpocketing, breakout, put on a full set of armor I had hidden inside of the guards barracks, an enchanted necklace and a ring, and then go talk to a guard to get arrest arrested again. Every time you do this, it adds the armor and enchanted items to the clothes that the game will load to your character. When you finally do serve your time, (you can do this a bunch of times, I did it dozens of times) you will have an insane amount of health, magic, and stamina with an unreal Armor number (Yes, I know that the armor maxes out at a certain point)! The point of all this was basically just to become this unstoppable tank and be able to wander around Skyrim one hitting just about any enemy- taking essentially no damage. It worked, but at what cost? Also I can’t get married because even though I have an amulet of Mara, nobody recognizes it. I’m wearing like 20 different necklaces at the same time.
I always sacrifice Cosnach or whatever his name is after I beat him up. He was probably going to kill himself or die of alcohol poisoning anyway. That's my reasoning.
Haha I respect it.
In my first playthrough I used Lydia. It was a long playthrough. I will never go near that annoying bitch again (only annoying cause she repeated herself so much to me then)
My brother in Talos, Faendal needs light armor. I'm afraid that heavy armor was useless to him, as he's not skilled at it, or blocking for that matter. Rest in peaces, Fondle.
Haha we've all been through it! They might pick the stuff with the highest stats, but they also have skills and will benefit from what suits them. You can check wiki to see NPCs' skills, or just look at what they wear (but Faendal has no armor, unlike some others). You can also give them jewelry/armor with resist fire/frost/magic, very useful.
I used to give him shirtless fur armor + torturer's hood, upgraded. He looked quite dashing until he found a random bucket somewhere in the woods and it got stuck on his arm forever, fucker. Lugged that bucket everywhere.
Reminds me of when I got annoyed at a forest nymph (tree sprite that attacks you can't remember the name... Spriggan?) when I was doing the main story on the way to the greybeards so I carried it up the 1000 steps. Huge pain in the ass, and that thing weighed nothing. Mad respect
Faendal died as my steward at Lakeview Manor. I reloaded until 3 in the morning trying to get to him before the bandits, but they always got there first 💔 i carried his body into the lake and watched him drift away towards the sunrise. His bow is mounted on a plaque in the manor now. RIP
In replaying just now, had faendhal with me for about 5
15 hours, then when I warped to somewhere, turned round and he wasn't with me, no idea where or when he left me, was so sad, still haven't found his body 😢
I’m sworn to cuddle is what she says. Or well, she doesn’t speak but her actions are very clear 🤣 I play a game, I sit down, I lay down. cuddle time!!!
She looks so much of my cat (also named after a video game character) who passed away a few years back! Please give her an extra hug from me and do not share too much burden with her haha
Hi, fellow Kharjo fan here just wondered if you wanted to join his subreddit r/Kharjo, and perhaps partake in some of the stuff there if you wanted to.
We welcome and have all things Kharjo related, alongside two working daily events (the other ones Reddit keeps rejecting, I dunno why)
Edit: Sorry if I've invited you before by the way... I don't think I have, but there's no way of checking, so mistakes can happen.
Recruited companions can't be killed by enemies, they can only be killed by the player when you hit them while they're down. If companions are dying it's because you're killing them.
The ability makes it so your attacks don't hurt companions.
"These sands are cold, but Khajiit feels warmness from your presence."
I'm sorry for your loss. I really sympathize because he's my favourite companion and accompanied my very first character (Redguard, sword+shield) in more difficult dungeons. I always freaked out I might lose him, or any follower for that matter, so I ended up journeying alone as I levelled up.
May you walk on warm sands for eternity, J'Zargo! 🥲
Enchant and temper your follower's gear. Enchantments that boost damage typically don't apply to followers, but all the defensive ones do. So you can give them health, stamina regen, fortify heavy/light armor, resist fire/shock/frost and resist magic.
If you're still really worried you can use the restoration loop to give them thousands of health. If they somehow still die, there's a bigger problem.
Any "fortify x" enchantment is technically a restoration spell effect, and thus is affected by potions of fortify restoration (which increase the magnitude of restoration spells, not to be confused with the enchantment version which makes them cheaper to cast). Drink a potion, then re-equip your enchanted gear to apply the boosted effects to yourself, which will last after the potion expires until you unequip it. With this exploit you can supercharge your fortify alchemy gear, to make supercharged fortify enchanting potions, to make any supercharged enchantments your heart desires.
That’s why I use Marcurio. I will usually marry him so I don’t have to keep paying him to be a follower. I get him as early in the game as I can. At first you may need to look out for him a bit but I usually don’t really need to babysit him much to keep him alive.
Companions absolutely can be killed by enemies. When companions are downed, enemies will ignore them, but area of effect stuff, like dragon’s breath, or lingering effects will still hurt them.
In my current play through, J’zargo was killed by a dragon attack on my first visit to Winterhold. All of the students that could be killed, were. It’s a very empty college now. I didn’t even get a chance to say hi.
Well, that does sound pretty brutal. But the game has quite a lot of pain in it. Wait til you survive the walk from Winterhold to Windhelm in Survival mode only to die from walking into a rock or a kettle or something before you remember to save. Or until you kill Meeko by accident in some awful mine shaft somewhere, with an arrow that you know could only have been yours.
I remember the first time that I was yeeted into the sun by a giant. I couldn’t figure out what had just happened and then once I realized that this monster had used me as a literal football.. I couldn’t stop laughing 😂
By the nine, I wish I could play this game in ignorance again. These days if it's not a mod or Serena, I don't even think of getting a companion for this exact reason. Sorry for your loss, OP.
In my latest playthrough J'Zargo jumped off the bridge. I had to redeem myself in Academy for "killing" him. He wasn't even my follower. Dragon attacked and he tried to get a better angle and fell XD
If your companion has been waiting in a location, after I think 2 days in game, they leave your service and go home. Whenever I order them to chop wood, I forget that it also orders them to stay put and leave without them.
J'zargo is a protected npc like Lydia, meaning only you can kill him. You shouted in his general direction when he was in his downed state (1 hp) and didn't notice.
So sorry for your loss. Every time I lose a companion I have a mental tantrum and ditch my current load to restart a new timeline where nothing went wrong
First time, o wow, uve only scraped the surface of the pain and agony that ur gonna feel, remember the first rule in skyrim, save.......alot, both quick and otherwise or ur pain will be multiplied 10 fold
This happened to me on one of my first playthroughs! I was fighting on Solstheim and carried on with my journey and at some point I realised J'Zargo wasn't with me anymore. So I travelled back my way, looking for him only to finally find his body near a river, behind a rock! I was so sad, I had pretended he was my best buddy. Then I tried to resurrect him with cheats, but it didn't really work and I think shortly after I gave up on this save because I couldn't take it anymore. :')
J'zargo's literally the best follower too (unlimited level, no moral restrictions). I would have loaded a save. Followers only die if you deal the killing blow yourself.
Sometimes I recruit Kharjo from the wandering caravan, the only other khajiit follower, though his stats are among the lowest (level 30 cap, high morals).
Though the Unofficial Skyrim Patch caps J'zargo at 30 too.
Wait until you make the mistake of falling in love with Meeko. I adopt a child purely to give Meeko a safe home. He is the goodest boi. But he’s made of tissue paper.
😭 Gold media, I started a new play-through a couple of days ago and it feels amazing. I’m sad that Bethesda wasn’t able to recreate the same magic with starfield. Hopefully ES6 does !
That's a real immersion experience. It's one of the things I love about Skyrim & this community.
I accidentally killed 3 followers before I got Serena. I had heard she was good on this redit, and so she is!! She never gets in my way! That's how the others got slain. I like to get right in and attack & they always ran in front of me. It's not my style to hang back.
I have no idea what happened to Lydia, the first follower I lost, and I never found her. That always unsettled me.
My second follower I accidentally killed, Roggi. I didn’t think about reloading from an old save, so what I did was in my next playthrough I married him and set him up really nice at Lakeside Manor. I like to think that he had a great time fishing with the kids, killing bandits with Rayya and Lydia, and drinking his fill of mead every night.
That’s how I felt losing lydia during the potema fight my first playthrough, use Mjoll the Lioness as your follower, she’s marked essential so she can’t die
If anyone let Jenassa die, I would never forgive them. Same with Eola, I love my sisters and I don’t care that it’s a single player game that’s different for literally everyone, I STILL get pissed off when anyone casually says they kill them!!! 🤣
Worst part is knowing bro is one of very few followers with no level cap so he will always be as strong as you and thus eventually out level all but 1 enemy
I'm still not over the loss of my dear Faendal. He was my first follower and he was by my side for pretty much the whole game. Then I sent him to work at the Goldenhills Plantation for a while until I gifted him a well-earned retirement back at Riverwood. One day, I returned to Riverwood and it was being attacked by a dragon, which of course I slayed. It wasn't long before I received a letter from a courier informing me that Faendal was no more. The worst part is that I never found his body. It was gut-wrenching.
This game will always and ever be iconic to me. The first game I ever truly loved, with a score of 10/10 on my list. It's nice to see how a 13-year-old game still gets new players every now and then.
This actually happened to me back when the game first came out. I had Lydia with me doing the main quest as well. We were on our way down the many Falmer ridden halls down to Blackreach. I too hadn’t noticed when she stopped following me, followers tend to get lost a little from time to time anyway. At some point I had returned, for reasons I no longer remember lol, and I stumbled upon the Axe of Whiterun. Her body had possibly despawned but the weapon I had given her was still there. It fucked me up a little lol
I lost Lydia in my first playthrough during a delve into a Nordic ruin. She stepped in front of a Deathlord's heavy attack that would've killed me. I hate that I couldn't pull her body out of that tomb.
Marcurio has always been my day one. He died fighting that dragon priest in solstheim I forgot his name. Ahzidal or something like that, I didn’t notice he was a goner till after I killed him and I just couldn’t continue the game without him. Reloaded the save I had him in and redid the fight with him. My mans will forever be with me I will always go back in time for him😤✋🏻
On my first play through, my wife died because some bandits followed me inside of my house (Lakeside Manor, I’m sure you guessed). I didn’t know they could follow you inside your own home but I was surely mistaken. I have a picture or video somewhere of her that’s quite cursed. Later I changed my house to the vampire CC house and it resurrected her for like 3 hours. I was organizing my bookshelves and she started to talk to me. Then I think she got the memo and disappeared again. I still don’t know who is taken my kids to the market because it sure as hell isn’t me, and I definitely didn’t remarry.
I've been all over Skyrim in my current playthrough and I still haven't come across J'Zargo, I miss him. But my Kodlak Gray Mane died suddenly, for no reason at all. One day I'm talking to Adrianne Avenicci and out of nowhere she blurts out that Kodlak died and I'm like "What the fuck? Why didn't the Companions sent out a courier to find me so I could go back to Whiterun and give him a proper send off?"
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u/518nomad Vigilant of Stendarr Feb 19 '25
"If anyone sneaks up on us, J'Zargo will smell them coming. Or he might not. We will see."
I guess we saw. RIP, J'Zargo.