Who do you like to use? Do you use a follower at all?

Like many of us, I first met Lydia and found followers that way. I actually had already had a chance to say "Follow me." to Faendal in Riverwood, but I hadn't payed it much attention. So, yeah, now Lydia serves only as my housecarl in Whiterun whereas Faendal was my follower for something like 58 hours. Then I just killed him today. I finally got enough of his morals. I assassinated one guy, it was a sloppy kill from me, not a perfectly clean one. Then the left upper corner of the screen said that I got some bounty and my follower has left my service. Faendal actually attacked me. Normally I would reload, but this time I thought what the heck, Faendal's been annoying already, especially with spike gates, swinging axes and pressure plates. :angel: A bit shock spam from me and down the follower-turned-hostile goes. My bounty actually was removed since the upper left corner told me that the last eye-witness has died. Cool feature!

So I jokingly roleplayed that Marcurio has used to every dirty low-life trick because he sits at The Bee and Barb all the time. Besides, I wanted to check him out since he says he's a mage. I'm not much of a mage myself so I figured my partner could be, and he could be either long or short range attacker. And yes. This tandem really works. My first battle scene with Marcurio was actually with some of the toughest Foresworn (I think). They even had a named Hagraven. I was like OH SHI- when it discovered me, but Marcurio just went there and completely owned that hag! He must've hit her/it a few times and then he even cast her/it down the freaking tower where the fight was happening! Just overkill with some insane spell! He reminded me of Emperor Palpatine throwing Mace Windu through the window with Force Lightning or something...

So, yeah. After this incident Marcurio has been the favorite follower I've had so far. The packing mule comment hasn't yet grown stale for me. We travel light and we're still a very bad ass team; lots of room for the loot. I think this is only the beginning of a long - if not friendship, at least mutual respect.

(We also saw the today for the first time! o_O Actually I thought it might've been a bug until I checked it from the web.) Anyway, who are you "using" and why, if any?

I've been running with Vorstag mostly. He's cute.

I've had Lydia by my side for a while