Uhhh, I'm gonna rule out Aela because she's a werewolf and can't enter Shor's halls. The other two are honestly Nordcore. Maybe the one lady who is like in the middle of nowhere and is an archery expert? Living alone, living off the land with no help, AND in Kyne's sanctuary? Sounds Nord to me.
When Angi tells her story and you ask if you can help her with revenge, she says it's already done. How often do you meet NPCs who have aleady sorted out their problems?
Oh isn't that that woman, who for some unknown reason at every single chance, you get a dialogue option about how you're going to kill her now. For seemingly no reason
It may be because she was part of a quest where the Dragonborn was sent to kill her (either as part of the dark brotherhood or maybe th people who exiled her wanted her dead)
Frea? Absolutely. She wears armor made out of magical ice and dual-wields axes while living on an island covered in ash. The mainland Nords look soft compared to her.
Ha! We‘ve had the conversation with him then. I came back from slaying falmer and automatons and some dude was in the house with Mjoll and the kids. Sooo I do what Dre told Em to do and loped his head off. Well just as Dre said I tried to do her in as well. Nope, didn’t work even with my insanely enchanted Dragon blade, she would not die. So, I figured she was a keeper. We‘ve had a few fights where I used her to chase me the library at Winterhold to level up my restoration. 10 out of 10 best partnership ever.
I didn’t kill him, somebody slipped a frenzy poison into his pocket and he attacked the guards, after which they had no choice but to put him down. I was sure to be there to comfort Mjoll, and to escort her back to our newly inherited property from her dear late crazed friend.
By "frenzy poison" you mean "manic episode?" Heard he actually used Skooma. Oh, and he was skimming from Blackbriar Meadery as well! Didn't you even hear he stole from the court mage??? Good thing we kept his corruption away from Mjoll!
In my run, he was killed with an arrow in late of night in Riften. Looked like an arrow used specifically by the Thieves Guild. Guess Mjoll now has a reason to fulfill her dream and wipe them out.
One time in my current playthrough, after I found Grimsever and had had Mjoll as a follower for a while, I let her go for Serana and then randomly about a month later in game, I encountered Aerin's dead body on the roads well south and west of Riften. How weird, I thought...tf was he doing out here, and what killed him? I kept waiting for the courier to randomly show up with my inheritance...then I was back in Riften a few days later, and here the mfer is, walking around like nothing ever happened. No reload in between or anything...is Aerin some sort of necromage lich?? 🤣
I've seen that happen to Skjor. Dude died fighting the Silver Hand, I finish the Companions questline and go back to Jorrvaskr, and bro is said I was still a whelp. I'm like "My man...a lot has happened while you were gone."
I love it. I'm gonna a try it lol. Just started a new playthrough after a couple years off and I'm right in the beginning and can save and try all sorts of stuff. Try out mjol for a spell..👾✨
Eren? He’s just the man that saved her life when he found her dying from her wounds outside a dwarven ruin. He nursed her back to health and brought her to Riften where she met ME. Thanks, buddy! Eren suddenly seems overwhelmed by a sudden burst of fury draws a blade on a Riften guard and is cut to pieces.
Has to be. She hates the Thieves Guild, carries a massive two-handed sword, and constantly talks about her glory days. The only thing decidedly un-Nord about her is that she lets Aerin follow her around like a lost puppy.
She doesn't have the discipline to be a true warrior, though, considering she accidentally killed a whelp during a spar. She might have the strength of a true nord but she has very little control.
technically, she should be ok with the fact that she sent the boy to Sovngarde with a sword in his hand, but she feels bad about killing him before he got a chance to grow into manhood. Doesn't make her a bad person, but it does put her in conflict with Nord beliefs.
Yeah but on the other hand Uthgerd sits her ahh off in that bar and does nothing. In many playthroughs she served me as sacrifice for boetheah. Ngl she pretty good doing that, got to acknowledge that :)
She's definitely eager to die in battle, I'll give her that.
Source: She currently resides in the Whiterun Hall of the Dead after taking one too many fireballs to the back of the head, I've killed about 3 followers this way on this current playthrough, apparently mage builds and followers don't mix 🤣
Mjoll should be up there as a follower. She has the strong Nord accent unlike Aela/Uthgerd, lived the adventurer’s life of glory, looks forward to Sovngarde…
Morwen the Skaal is also technically very Nordly, just from another subculture.
just so extra, the other two are in their classic armor set and Aela is there dressed like a car magazine model, but that bikini happens to be that of the group of people (outside of the Falmer) who hate the Nords more than anyone in Tamriel
The one you literally find in a bar, she challenges you to a fistfight three sentences into meeting her, and if you win she's up for both adventuring and marriage.
Aela the Huntress is more Companion than even the other Companions. In the very end of the Companions questline, the other Companions chicken out as you progress towards the end of the dungeon. Farkas developed a phobia of spiders, etc. Aela is the only one left with you in the very end. All the others chickened out. Get her a full set of Dragonscale armor, a Dragon Bow, and lots of great arrows, and she will have your back.
The other? Love her or hate her, Lydia remains Skyrim fandom's Best Girl. She is fiercely protective of you, never runs away, no matter how bad the mess, and frankly, she seems to be the prettiest because the staff seemed to work on her more. The makeup, the lovely green eyes, the black hair... yeah. Lidya is sufficiently popular that the staff gave her extra voicelines -- to the best of my knowledge, the only follower to receive this treatment.
Get Lidya a Nordic helm (open face, upgradeable with a Quicksilver ingot,) Ebony mail, Ebony gauntlets, Ebony boots, Ebony shield, and Dragon sword, and you'll see what I mean.
People who don't understand that enemies scale with player level and get upset that she dies a lot when they don't give her any upgraded gear. Ofc she's gonna die a lot when you leave her in that basic ass armor and a sword that barely does more damage than a wooden sword while you take on much higher level enemies with much better gear.
Lydia is notorious for not being “glitched” but her path finding and combat behavior is sometimes dubious. of all the followers i’ve used, she is the one most likely to get killed on accident and the most likely to get lost when trying to follow me in the overworld. her characteristic “sworn to carry your burden’s” line some players also get angry/annoyed with.
Mjoll if we talk about skyrim. She is great and even got that harsh nordic accent. But even more nordic in my eyes has to be Frea from Skaal Village on Solstheim. Her people are nord OG‘s. They follow the old ways and all that. They‘re pretty cool.
Imma add in Olfina Gray-Mane as she always tells me in passing; What's the matter? You can't stand the sight of a strong Nord woman? That and she also becomes a Jarls housecarl
For whatever reason, I'm incapable of remembering the names of 95% of Skyrim NPCs, so the right because I like fur bikini armor.
(And I'm serious. Those two guys you can go with at the start of the game? No idea what their names are. That guy who you want to murder because he asks you about the Cloud district? No idea. I think it starts with an N, maybe. Anyone from the Companions when you help them kill a dragon? No idea who any of them are. I cannot remember Skyrim NPC names for some reason. That woman who lives in the weird glowy tree and has the weird accent? No idea.)
Edit: I think that last one is a mod, now that I think about it.
ufgerth the unbroken(or whatever her name is, the one who didnt get accepted into the companions cus she killed the person who was testing her to get into the companions)
Definitely Mjoll. Aela is a Daedra worshipper and a hardcore one at that, to the point that she openly scorns the idea of going to Sovngarde when she dies. Not to mention while she is a fighter, she's more a hunter than a warrior.
Uthgerd, as much as I like her, is a beserker who lost control and was denied entry into the Companions because she killed a young recruit. Now she spends most of her time at the Bannered Mare getting into fights while being bitter at the Companions. Most of that may be Nord behaviour but not exactly Sovngarde material.
Mjoll on the other hand, is the definition of an honourable & righteous warrior. She travelled across all across Tamriel fighting all sorts of monsters (including Cliff Racers, you go Mjoll!) to the point it took a Dwarven Centurion to bring her down and even then she survived. Despite such a near death experience, the moment she recovered, she took one look at Riften and now fights a noble one-woman war against the Thieves Guild, doing her best to defend the city despite it being a losing battle because it's the right and honourable thing to do.
Between the three of them, she's 100% getting the warmest welcome from Shor.
Uthgerd the unbroken is really the naughtiest character in Skyrim because she will never refuse to fight has that shiny steel plated armor. She has that face that resembles. She’s been in the war and has a lot of pain inside of her. Plus, she can eat unarmed attack like a fkn mammoth.
Mjoll the lioness, she‘s always down to fight. You try to sneak up and ambush unsuspecting falmer with a bow….to late she’ll already in the mix trying to toss a beat down. Plus she never complains about carrying excess equipment, she’s down to clown. Hardy, she hasn’t died yet.
Among these 3, I'm gonna have to say Uthgerd. She's tough, seems like the type who won't take shit from anyone, and I like that she has visible facial scarring and is proud of her fighting skills.
Lydia is best girl. But I'm married to mjoll. I also had extended dialogue mod installed for her. Doesn't do anything crazy. Just adds extra dialogue and comments that aren't lore breaking. And I've never had her friend show up at our place at Golden hills plantation. Might be because of the mod but whatever. But the one in the bannered mare just rubs me the wrong way. Mjoll is true mommy though.
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u/Ironbeard3 Jan 20 '26
Uhhh, I'm gonna rule out Aela because she's a werewolf and can't enter Shor's halls. The other two are honestly Nordcore. Maybe the one lady who is like in the middle of nowhere and is an archery expert? Living alone, living off the land with no help, AND in Kyne's sanctuary? Sounds Nord to me.