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So I've been trying my hand with making a few simple custom followers; you know, add them to the factions, make their disposition 75, and then add the relationship so you can pick them up without doing a quest. I've done it successfully before; three successful follower NPCs, in fact, but for some reason, it just isn't working with these three.

I have the following three NPCs in the works;

Ra'zhar (From the 'After Alduin' roleplay) - Khajiit Mage (Destruction). Uses the 'KhajiitMale' voice if that makes any difference. I used J'zargo as a starting point, and I deleted several relationships, factions, et cetera, until all that was really left was his appearance, inventory, spell book, and stats.

Rylvyr II - A from-scratch Dunmer Archer/Mage. Uses the 'Dark Elf Male' voice.

The Ghost Knight - I know this one will probably not work. This is a normal follower NPC, with the 'ghostability' spell in his spellbook to make him look like a ghost. "Is a ghost" is left unchecked. Uses the "CommonerMale" voice because I figured the ghost voice wouldn't work.

For each of these NPCs, I made sure to set them to the factions "Currentfollowerfaction" (-1) and "PotentialFollowerFaction" (0), I made sure to set their disposition to 75, and I made sure to give them a relationship to the player, set to Ally. That should be enough for 'Follow me, I need your help." to show up. Is there something here that I'm not doing correctly?

(Also, on a side note, I'm having some real issues with getting faces to show up properly. I'm done the ctrl-f4 thing with Ra'zhar to export his face data, but he still shows up as a generic greyish brown furred khajiit instead of a white one. Same happened with my other now grey-faced NPCs. Any clue?)

Scratch all of this; I figured out what the issue was. Mod lock, please?

Why don't you explain what the problem was in case someone else ever has the same problem?

The relationship values never saved; I guess they decided to delete themselves or something. Not sure.

As with my issue with the ghost knight, I set the 'parent' character to be the player instead of the Ghost Knight.

As with Ra'zhar and the Grey Faced NPCs, I'm still having an issue, but I was able to fix Ra'zhar.