I've got a good 400 hours into this game and I've never seen the follower before. He's pretty awsome. I'm level 46, playing on master (which is relevant only because the inference that can be drawn that he would be closer to my level than not) I am not a vampire, and hence do not benefit from necromage.

The UESP list him as leveling up to 53. The ability to thrall has always been hard capped, 40 or 48. I suppose though gamesas might tweak it- but my intial elation of bagging Sasquatch (literally, picture George Muerson. In a robe with hood. Summoning gargoyles. NOT MOANING. and even retains some dialogue - like a dremora.

I wish only for greater skyrim minds than mine to kick this around and see what they can glean from it. The UESP's wrong, caps at 40? Maybe I'm a wear wolf vampire and I dunno it? or maybe, just maybe, what we thought we knew about skyrim is going to pleasantly, or unpleasantly, surprised.

Been here along time, not posting, just reading. I remember a guy who built a house of cheese, that was knocked down by a fox. If anyone knows if he ever got it built, much appreciated.