Lydia Blade steward on Goldenhill plantation keeps going to skyheaven temple

[cybx]

I just put Lydia as a steward on the Goldenhill plantation but she went to Skyheaven temple again. Before i assign her to be a steward she was part of the blades. If any Blade member do that i'll change her because im playing on survival and running from Herjarchen hall or Whiterun to get the money from her at the skytemple gets tired a lot

[cybx]

Originally posted by cybx:

I just put Lydia as a steward on the Goldenhill plantation but she went to Skyheaven temple again. Before i assign her to be a steward she was part of the blades. If any Blade member do that i'll change her because im playing on survival and running from Herjarchen hall or Whiterun to get the money from her at the skytemple gets tired a lot. Also theres no dilog on her to send it to House or something, other than buy things, collect money. Any idea how to change her for another steward?

[alexander_dougherty]

talk to her when she's at golden hills there should be dialogue that tells her she's no longer needed as steward at the plantation....

I recommend Goldir as Steward, and others have said illia is a good option too.

[cybx]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

talk to her when she's at golden hills there should be dialogue that tells her she's no longer needed as steward at the plantation....

I recommend Goldir as Steward, and others have said illia is a good option too.

Thnaks for replying. Thants the problem, i went to sky heaven temple to get her as a follower , went to Goldenhill plantation inside the house and i made her a steward to work the farm and she dissapeared. Then i got a map marker to collect money from her at sky heaven temple. I arrived, colect the money and still no other dialog to get her to follow me again or something else. She stays at the Sky heaven temple :( i have to travel from ther to the plantation everytime

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by cybx:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

talk to her when she's at golden hills there should be dialogue that tells her she's no longer needed as steward at the plantation....

I recommend Goldir as Steward, and others have said illia is a good option too.

Thnaks for replying. Thants the problem, i went to sky heaven temple to get her as a follower , went to Goldenhill plantation inside the house and i made her a steward to work the farm and she dissapeared. Then i got a map marker to collect money from her at sky heaven temple. I arrived, colect the money and still no other dialog to get her to follow me again or something else. She stays at the Sky heaven temple :( i have to travel from ther to the plantation everytime

if you have the refID for her, use the moveto.player command (at golden hills)

if moving her to golden hills doesn't activate the dialogue, load a save from before you made her steward because otherwise it will be unfixable.

[cybx]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by cybx:

Thnaks for replying. Thants the problem, i went to sky heaven temple to get her as a follower , went to Goldenhill plantation inside the house and i made her a steward to work the farm and she dissapeared. Then i got a map marker to collect money from her at sky heaven temple. I arrived, colect the money and still no other dialog to get her to follow me again or something else. She stays at the Sky heaven temple :( i have to travel from ther to the plantation everytime

if you have the refID for her, use the moveto.player command (at golden hills)

if moving her to golden hills doesn't activate the dialogue, load a save from before you made her steward because otherwise it will be unfixable.

I dont know what refID is?

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by cybx:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

if you have the refID for her, use the moveto.player command (at golden hills)

if moving her to golden hills doesn't activate the dialogue, load a save from before you made her steward because otherwise it will be unfixable.

I dont know what refID is?

Ok back to basics.

NPCs have two IDs, the base ID and the refID. Technically the refID is for a specific version of the Base ID, because technically you could have more than one version of the Base ID in the game (shouldn't but this is Bethesda). Some console commands use the base ID some use the refID.

if it's a vanilla NPC, then one of the Wikis have the base and ref IDs.
If it's a mod then you might need to check the mod page (or use SSEedit to find the id)
then you type in the game:

prid refID
moveto.player

(put the actual refID in don't type "refID")

[cybx]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by cybx:

I dont know what refID is?

Ok back to basics.

NPCs have two IDs, the base ID and the refID. Technically the refID is for a specific version of the Base ID, because technically you could have more than one version of the Base ID in the game (shouldn't but this is Bethesda). Some console commands use the base ID some use the refID.

if it's a vanilla NPC, then one of the Wikis have the base and ref IDs.
If it's a mod then you might need to check the mod page (or use SSEedit to find the id)
then you type in the game:

prid refID
moveto.player

(put the actual refID in don't type "refID")

Oohh ok,. I dont use mods. Console command with that you are telling me then🙂. How do i find the NPC refID?😆

[alexander_dougherty]

Check a skyrim wiki
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Lydia_(Skyrim)

[Altbert]

RefID for Lydia is A2C94 (but you may already have found it).

Additionally: Unique NPCs have only 1 base ID and 1 reference ID. Non-unique NPCs have 1 base ID, but can have more than 1 reference ID. In general animals, creatures, bandits and guards are non-unique NPCs based on a generic template NPC. If a unique NPC dies, they will not be available in the game anymore. When a non-unique NPC is killed they will be replaced by one of the NPCs in a template list.

[xybolt]

You can try to remove her from blades faction. Not sure that this would prevent her going to there. Don't make saves until you're sure she's not going to there anymore. Revert if it did not help. The commands for console are here below. Use those when you're in goldenrod. Ignore those that are starting with "#" because this is to comment the actual console command below

# target lydia
prid A2C94

# remove her from blades faction
addfac 72834 -1

# move to you
moveto player

Then see if you can talk her to leave goldenrod. It is possible you may need to reset her inventory and I truly hope she goes to Breezehome thereafter .... this is configured in an AI package.

[cybx]

thanks. Ok, so i open the console command ` > prid A2C9 > moveto player (and the first and 2nd line only) if i want to leave her as a blade then?

[Altbert]

If you want to have Lydia as a steward, she can't be a blade! Otherwise she will always return to Sky Haven Temple. It's the same with other possible stewards when you have not completed related quests. They will always return to the locations where you will have to complete quests in which they are involved. The best stewards are the possible followers who you have completed all the quests for, or the followers you can hire. See this page[en.uesp.net] for possible followers who can be hired as stewards and the requirements to hire them.

[cybx]

Originally posted by Altbert:

If you want to have Lydia as a steward, she can't be a blade! Otherwise she will always return to Sky Haven Temple. It's the same with other possible stewards when you have not completed related quests. They will always return to the locations where you will have to complete quests in which they are involved. The best stewards are the possible followers who you have completed all the quest for, or the followers you can hire. See this page[en.uesp.net] for possible followers who can be hired as stewards and the requirements to hire them.

ok, shes already my Thane, but when i got her to join the blades i see that i have not dome the quest to kill the dragon pharalax and im not shure if that helps. Also i was thinking to hire a different NPC from a tavern but i dont see options on Lydia to tlet her go.

[Altbert]

You're the thane and Lydia is your housecarl. If you want her as your steward, you will have to dismiss her as blade. Completing none of the blade's quests will help you with that, since these are radiant quests. You can only dismiss Lydia as steward when she is on the farm or where ever you have appointed her as steward. My personal favorite steward is Illia. She will become available as steward after the quest "Repentence". Other good stewards are Jenassa and Marcurio, although I don't like Marcurio's dialogues after he becomes steward.

[cybx]

Originally posted by Altbert:

You're the thane and Lydia is your housecarl. If you want her as your steward, you will have to dismiss her as blade. Completing none of the blade's quests will help you with that, since these are radiant quests. You can only dismiss Lydia as steward when she is on the farm or where ever you have appointed her as steward. My personal favorite steward is Illia. She will become available as steward after the quest "Repentence". Other good stewards are Jenassa and Marcurio, although I don't like Marcurio's dialogues after he becomes steward.

How do i dimiss her as a Blade? i dont get any dialog to do it