NOOB FAQ Lydia caughing and using magic!?

[Snobhit.®]

Lydia caughs sometimes.

pls help i hope she's not dying on me, shes the only friend i have in...life!

XDDD

Question:

1. is there a way to stop her caughing?

2. why idid she even start caughing in the first place?

3. is it contagious?

4. can lydia recharge magical weapons( magical staffs)?

[𝕊𝕋𝕌ℝ𝕄-𝕂𝔸𝕋]

I'm just learning about Lydia myself..not had this experience myself, ...yet...
But one thing she pisses me off with is that she will stand there continuously Yawning..
I feel like saying:

''Lydia, are you with me on this or do you just wanna go do something else?. Am I boring you? Well piss off back to whiterun then!''

[Shufflecat]

Lydia can't recharge magical weapons by herself. If you give her a "soul trap" enchanted weapon she will recharge any soul gems you give her though.

Dunno about the coughing. I don't believe that NPCs can contract deseases the way the player can, and I don't think even the player can spread deseases. I don't know for sure, but I think deseases work as a race linked dice-roll encounter mechanic rather than as an actual contagion. That is, for example, you can only get rockjoint from wolves, and the game doesn't actually assign specific wolves to be rockjoint carriers, it just rolls a dice every time you fight a wolf to see if you contract rockjoint from the encounter. if wha you're fighting isn't a wolf, then it doesn't roll for rockjoint.

From my own experiences with deseases in game, I don't think any of them (except vampirism) change textures/shaders or animations to "display" the sickness. You just get stat modifiers and the ocassional "you don't look well" comment from NPCs. I suspect there some kind of randomizer determining what idle animations are played for an NPC, and for some reason Lydias is getting stuck. My Lydia is a yawner like Master Dan's, and I had pretty much the exact same response to it as he did, LOL.

As for stopping it, I dunno. Try dismising her, cleansaving, reloading, then rehiring her. If that doesn't work, and the coughing really bugs you, leave Lydia at home and hire Janessa (the psycho dark elf mercinary in The Drunken Huntsman). She's pretty badass, and has a bit more personality than Lydia.

[Tox Laximus]

Sounds to me like she wants more from the relationship, like a new kitchen.

[Jogon]

I think you could be right. I find Lydia is fond of coughing especially when you are attending to something else and ignoring her. Just like she turns away or hides in a corner when you are talking to another female.

Originally posted by Tox Laximus:

Sounds to me like she wants more from the relationship, like a new kitchen.

[frogprincess_q4]

I have noticed NPCs seem to cough a lot on Solstheim, from the ash I assume...

The coughing is just a little "human" thing to make NPCs seem more real. She's not sick, she won't die from it and you can't catch it from her. Personally, I don't tend to travel with Lydia, she annoys me senseless, but I have had other followers do it occasionally.

[Jogon]

I noticed that there was more coughing on Solstheim and put it down to the ash because the locals mentioned it quite often. Even the guards coughed occasionally.

Originally posted by frogprincess_q4:

I have noticed NPCs seem to cough a lot on Solstheim, from the ash I assume...

The coughing is just a little "human" thing to make NPCs seem more real. She's not sick, she won't die from it and you can't catch it from her. Personally, I don't tend to travel with Lydia, she annoys me senseless, but I have had other followers do it occasionally.