Maybe I can help, without being too obvious about it, by going out on point and handling anything threatening before it reaches her. Why would she be going there?Īs I clump after her through the night, periodically watching her get into pitched battles with marauders and murderers, it occurs to me that perhaps I should not be standing around, twiddling my gauntleted thumbs, while she has to repeatedly fight for her life. She seems to be heading west and soon crosses a river to head north, aiming for Dawnstar.
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I also can't help but notice she's not walking in the direction of Riften. On the other hand, cool! I found her! Now to continue following her for days like a bizarre creep. It's her! For some reason, she's taken off her ebony armor and cult mask and is instead clothed in her original duds. I run around a bit more, and eventually spot a figure walking across another bridge, off in the distance, headed west. There's a female NPC walking around near the bridge that's south of Riften, but it's not my wife. I jump into the icy river to see if she's paddling sluggishly around near the bottom, but I can't see much, so I run up the bank on the opposite side. Maybe now the game has transported her to Riften? If not, where would she have gone? South, I guess. I pay the captain to take me to Windhelm, but when I arrive I don't see Mjoll anywhere. now I'm kind of curious if I can catch up to her in Skyrim. Okay! I guess that's how NPCs handle cross-continental travel: magic barrel-poking. She doesn't speak to the captain, she simply walks across the deck, appears to reach out and touch a barrel. She strolls to the docks and climbs aboard the ship I use when I need to travel between Skyrim and Solstheim. It's the middle of the night when Mjoll finally reaches Raven Rock.
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I take up a position about twenty yards behind her, and grimly prepare to spend the next couple days staring at her back. She eventually climbs onto land and begins walking in the direction of Raven Rock, far to the southeast. A few minutes later, to my surprise, I spot her to the east of me, still swimming. I swim across the channel and stand around on the main island for a bit to see if Mjoll will actually emerge from the water at some point. Did the game already wink her out of existence already and plop her back in Riften, or is she still paddling around somewhere? A minute after deciding I won't let her out of my sight, I've let her out of my sight. After coming up for air and healing myself, I dive back down and realize I've completely lost her. Like all gifted detectives, I start drowning almost immediately. Second observation: she is doing her incredibly slow swimming along the very bottom of the channel, which is making her even slower. I'll follow her stealthily (or as stealthily as a giant orc clad in Daedric armor can) and see how she gets to Riften first-hand.įirst observation: she is an incredibly slow swimmer. Is Mjoll capable of doing that? If she's not, how will she get off the continent? Also, what happens in general when you brush off a follower? Do they really remain persistent in the world for their entire journey back to their home city, or does the game just pluck them up and drop them off once they've walked out of sight? I decide I'll find out by simply not letting Mjoll walk out of sight. The only way I can travel between Skyrim and Solstheim is by paying a ship captain to ferry me between the cities of Raven Rock (in Solstheim) and Windhelm. How, exactly, is Mjoll going to get back to Riften? My original column idea is instantly forgotten as Braul the Easily Distracted Orc decides to investigate this incredibly important mystery. If we were currently in Skyrim, she could just walk to Riften, but we're not: we're on the island of Solstheim, a completely different continent where the new Dragonborn content takes place. As she walks away, however, a thought occurs to me.
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Mjoll seems a bit crestfallen, but tells me she'll be in Riften should I need her again. I've been playing the Dragonborn expansion pack for Skyrim, and I want to try out (and write a column about) the new followers it offers. However, I've just informed her I don't want her following me any longer. She carries my spare gear with no complaint, she never runs out of arrows, and she doesn't mind accompanying me when I murder a bunch of farmers because I can't find a common axe. I love my Skyrim wife, Mjoll the Lioness.