So, I recently started an "Adventures with Faendal" playthrough where I ignore major quests (unless I haven't done them) and for the most part, I travel, stay at Inns at night (and every save point is a third person screenshot of Faendal, Me, and whoever else sitting in an Inn or Tavern), and clear out dungeons I pass, with or without quests.

I'm level 29. I know Faendal stops leveling at 30, and plan on gearing him well to keep him going. But that's beside the point.

I am mainly playing sneak/bow/dagger style with light armor.

I was sneaking through Pinewatch recently... Faendal fell a little behind, and I turn to see him, crouched, sneaking, and he does a Silent Roll (perk) to close the distance between us.

Now, I am playing on Xbox 360 and vanilla (albeit with all DLC), and everything I've ever read has said that Faendal does not have perks. I really doubt this. Did the latest patch add this? Even for literally one of the first possible followers? I swear he did it, although no one will probably believe me.

He is in a full enchanted scale armor set with a Dragon Priest mask (whichever allows waterbreathing and is light armor, I forget which), if that helps.

Has anyone encountered this? Has it been overlooked on all of the wikis?

Perhaps no one has used a low-level follower enough to get to the point where they would see such a perk?

What other perks does he get?

On a side note, does fortify one handed enchantments work on followers yet either?

Any input is welcome, thanks!

Maybe he did the thing were you put your weapon away when in sneak mode and press sprint (I think) Which causes a silent roll without needing the perk.

I've seen Farkas do it.

It's exactly this.

I never knew about this. This is disappointing lol

I've seen Lydia doing a silent roll as well. But then again, it was the same Lydia who rushed to a chest, grabbed a staff and started blasting enemies with fireballs...

There seems to be some bug where you sometimes do it without having it, sometimes you even get locked into only being able to do it and not being able to stand up and sprint.

This only happens when you load a save where your character is already in sneak mode.

This is disappointing. I was hoping he got perks.

Does fortify one handed work on followers yet?

On a side note, Faendal is extremely good at sneaking, but he does set off traps alot.

Most... or all Fortify Skill enchantments don't work on followers.

These are the only enchantments that apply to followers.


http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Followers#Enchanted_Follower_Equipment