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Cicero, I freaking love that guy to death. I know a lot of people find him annoying, but to each their own, I suppose. I think he's hilarious, and really unique in the way that he's the only follower in Skyrim that makes tons of funny comments and remarks during my adventures, and telling awful, lame jokes that make me laugh.

But moving on to combat, though. He's got good sneak and one-handed skills, and is really quick to jump into battle to help me. The one problem with that is, if I do something bad in town, for example, if I pickpocket someone and get caught, the NPC will usually turn hostile on me. If I'm alone, there's no problem, I just need to yield to a guard and pay a small bounty, but with Cicero, he'll just go crazy and start attacking anyone that's hostile towards me, which is a problem as it then turns my small 5 gold bounty into 1000+ gold 'cause he will just kill everyone, haha.

Aside from that, he's pretty competent and can hold his own in combat. He never dies, either (he literally can't; the only time you can ever kill him is during that quest "Cure For Madness", after that you can't kill him even if you want to), and he's very good at keeping up with me even if I'm on a horse or sprint several paces away. I've had followers that are like two miles behind me every time I turn around, but Cicero's always close, sometimes too close, to me (sometimes he'll bump into me and push me forward because he's so close).

He's just a funny guy. Even if he didn't help me fight at all, I'd still keep him around just because he makes me laugh with his odd remarks and random dancing.

Lydia, until she died. She was a thief too which was good because she could lock pick for me if my skill was too low. But I actually have about 7 followers (yes I know, its impossible, but its not)

1.) You can have your companion (the normal follower your allowed)

2.) A dog (can be purchased outside of stables)

3.) Special assassin (Retrieved from the dark brother hood)

4.) Esben and ____ ? from the aldwin's wall quest (hold off the quest to keep them around as followers)

5.) A daedra's best friend quest, the invincible dog is a follower (until quest is completed, so I suggest holding it off swell)

6.) The fire atronarch that esben summons

7.) My follower (the women from azura's shrine) summons a frost atronarch

Vorstag is my in demand. He factors out the obtrusive yet for some reason i think of its humorous... he's a super tank as long as you dont hit him which includes your elite skills. Murcurio dishes out a super form of DPS yet, properly we could in simple terms say he replaced right into somewhat too excited approximately my amulet of mara. Being that i cant sleep in camp with one eye open, i had to enable him bypass. the blacksmith in riften replaced into additionally involved too. Now i in simple terms ward off riften all jointly

Lydia because she never dies... well until she died :'( But I didnt know Cicero could be your follower. I might just take him up on the offer.

cicero.... he will fight a mammoth with a balloon ...hes crazy awesome like thAT