Skyrim Harem: How To Get Multiple Women To Live At Your House

[Leonidus]

When I finally decided to try the skyrim marriage for the sake of trying it, I started by trying to find the most beautiful women in the game. I then did decide on one, but it was a tough choice and obviously wanted to keep a lot more of them around as well, if only to make going home to store treasure a better experience. Plus, this is a freaking videogame, so why can't we have it all?

To accomplish this, I had to use the console a bit, and 1 mod.
You can do this to any vanilla or official DLC NPC as far as I have seen (done to 14 girls so far).
I could not get this to work on NPCs from the More Interesting NPCs mod.
You can do this in a house you don't technically own, like the Abandoned House in Markarth.
For anyone googling this to do on their xbox or PS3, this is obviously PC only.

The mod I used was Extensible Follower Framework:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12933/

Other mods you may be able to use to do this, which I did not use or try:
Multiple Marriages Mod:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9378/
Ultimate Follower Overhaul:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14037/

STEPS:
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Note that for characters you can already use as followers, you don't need to do the console commands, just talk to them and set their residence where you like. The console commands are to enable follower status. The initial placeatme command is to create a new copy of that NPC so it will interfere with the game as little as possible.

1. Download Extensible Follower Framework and install it.
2. Load game of course, go inside the house you want to set as the home of the NPC.
3. Press ` to open the command console, make sure you don't have a console target (you don't see a refID number in the middle of the screen).
4. Type:
player.placeatme <<enter NPC's baseID here>>
5. Press ` to remove console and quickly face the NPC you just created, then reopen console. They will try to move, probably to their normal home or station, so be fast.
6. With console open again, click on this new NPC you just made. Numbers in the middle of the screen should appear, this is their refID.
7. Type:
addfac 5c84d 1
setrelationshiprank <<their refID you see on screen>> 4
player.setrelationshiprank <<their refID>> 4

[[Note that's setrelationshiprank(SPACE)refid(SPACE)4, same with player.setrel]]

8. Press ` to remove console, and talk to them (hurry before they leave).
9. Ask them to join you as a follower.
10. Talk to them again, you should now get a menu because this is how Extensible Follower Framework adds functionality to followers.
11. In the menu you need to find Residence, which in this version was first click More, then click 1 for Residence. Next click Set, this sets the current location as their residence.
12. Dismiss them as a follower and you're ready for the next NPC.

Be sure you have the NPC selected when you are using those console commands. You might click on something else by accident or something might be so close to you that it will get selected instead. You can deselect something from console by clicking on it again.

EQUIPPING THEM:
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If you want to make them wear what you want:
1. Open console, select NPC in console
2. Type:
equipitem baseID
3. Remove console, then sneak behind and pickpocket their normal outfit so they can't wear it anymore. Don't get caught. (maybe use Player.setav pickpocket 199, and for sneak too)

CUSTOM ARMOR:
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If you use custom armors and the baseID therefore is hard/impossible to find on the skyrim wikis, then in the console type:
help <<"exact name of item">> 4
and then this will give you a list of things in the game with that exact text and show their baseID. You can use the quotes to search for things with a space in the name like "iron dagger".


REFERENCE:
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Name, BaseID

Arwen 00013386
Camilla 0001347B
Haelga 0001335F
Hroki 0001339E
Ingjard xx01541B where XX is the first two numbers on refIDs for your dawnguard NPCs
Jenassa 000B9982
Muiri 0001406B
Nivenor 0001336F
Orla 000133B0
Saadia 00013BA2
Sapphire 000C19A3
Senna 000133B7
Sylgja 000C3A3F
Vittoria 0001327A

These are the most beautiful women I found, using Better Females by Bella mod. Two NPCs from More Interesting NPCs mod were striking, but couldn't get it to work on them (Ingarte xx03C857 and Jolene xx0562AB).

I did not try these two but they are incredibly popular:
Serana xx002B6C
Aela 0001A696

The reason I used this method of doing things was:
1. placeatme command creating a new copy of the NPC should interfere very little with your game
2. Using them as followers that live at your home is better than marriage because they don't just say the stupid marriage dialogue over and over.
3. Extensible Follower Framework is a much smaller less intrusive mod than the Ultimate Follower Overhaul and has less installation problems.

OVERALL:
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Download Extensible Follower Framework
Use console commands to create a new copy of NPC and then make them your follower
Use Follower Framework's wonderful follower menu to set their residence
Use console commands to equip them and steal away their regular outfit

[Kissen Sniffer]

Uhhh... I tried this method and the npc would not move around in my house... then after a couple of minutes I would say, "It's time for us to part ways..." and the follower would still follow me... any Idea how to fix this?

[gnewna]

Sorry, but Better Females is hilarious: http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/2812-1-1323372264.jpg

[Rexwiz]

"wait here"...works like a charm, only problem is getting all that companions to you house to start with...You can use this mod, to get all you "female" companions to the house you want in one go.. instead of one by one.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=87578317&searchtext=

[Zefram Cochrane]

Mutlple Marriages mod is not compatible with Hearthfires, it hasn't been updated in years, just so you know.

[Ilja]

Originally posted by gnewna:

Sorry, but Better Females is hilarious: http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/2812-1-1323372264.jpg

Teehee. I remember, when I was still using that.
I moved to Navatsea's work soon after.