What is a point to mark followers as essential whilst you have a quest 'Boethiahs Calling' that you have to slay your follower for Beothiah take over the slain. The npc that I want to slay dose nothing after I order the npc to touch 'Pillar of Sacrifice'. I have to look at youtube (dated 07-07-12) to find out how to over come it. It looks like a vanilla bug by the date. This is for pc only and I done this: console-setessential 'NPC baseID' 0. I done is: setessential 0001990f 0 and it worked. That base ID I typed is for a certain npc only. Anyway its done now.