2 followers without mods

[House]

In my last playthrough i was able to have 2 followers but dont knew how.
So, in my next character i think i see where's the bug.
It turns out that if you complete the full Dawnguard with Serana, and then go to the Companions Questline, at some point she will have to be replaced for Falkas, but she will continue following you without counts as follower [ you can hire and dismiss another followers ].
If you dismiss her, she will turn into normally follower and then its over.
I dont know if works to other characters, so maybe someone can test if you are starting a new game. Go with a follower and join the companions.
Here, i'll show how:
https://youtu.be/RSsEFGB2BJs

[Rez Elwin]

It happens with any temporary follower, it doesn't replace your existing one, but as said, it's temporary. That said you can get a dog as a second follower, and if you count thralls as followers you can have another two, as well as Barbas. You can, without mods, have a small army.

[th]

I think you can also have a permanent undead minion from the Gallows Hall creation which doesn't count towards the maximum number of summons. Wrathman is really powerful: 30 level, 800 HP.

So a follower + 2 thralls + a dog + an undead = 5 permanent followers. I wouldn't even call it a small army. It's an army all right.

[House]

There's this Goblin Pet in southwest of Riften too, in a cave. He counts as a pet i think, because with him i was not able to hire that Black Dogs of Volkihar Castle.
Just this 3 was enough to efficiently distract Ebony Warrior and Kaarstag in Legendary. I had a lot of work the first time, with just 1 Follower.
I'm going to look for these 2 thralls and look for an enemy to test them.

[mikaeliby]

I´ve had Serana "stuck" as extra follower when I came with Lydia to go back to the gloomreach and free her mother. She hung on after that until told off, then she switched to normal,

But we can also collect half done quests with escort or travel and, like, not going to Skyhaven temple with Esben and Delphine. They then follow everywhere until we go there.

[Mavrah]

Originally posted by mikaeliby:

But we can also collect half done quests with escort or travel and, like, not going to Skyhaven temple with Esben and Delphine. They then follow everywhere until we go there.

Eh. They were really buggy when I tried that. Even Aela was acting weird when I had the two of them following. After about 45 minutes of shouting at all of them to move Delphine and Esbern disappeared somewhere near Falkreath.
They had apparently spawned at the temple and were neck-deep in Forsworn, with a dragon overhead. It was fun to have several essential followers for the big raid, but not worth the hassle of babysitting and un-sticking them all the time.

[mikaeliby]

That definately happens too. One could say it makes the game more alive :)