Skyrim:Vigilance

Vigilance (RefID: 0009A7AB)
Home City	Markarth
House	Markarth Stables
Species	Dog	Soul	Leveled
Level	PC×1 (range=6-50)	Type	Animals
RefID	0009A7AB	BaseID	0009A7AA
Other Information
Health	10+(PC-1)×10	Magicka	0
Stamina	20+(PC-1)×5
Primary Skills	Block, Sneak, Archery, One-handed
Faction(s)	MarkarthStablesFaction; PlayerPotentialAnimalFaction

Vigilance

Vigilance is a war dog that you can purchase for 500 gold. He is found next to the stables outside Markarth with his owner, Banning, who hints that Vigilance's ferocity was brought about by feeding him human flesh. Once purchased, he will fight beside you until killed or dismissed.

If dismissed or made to wait for more than two days, Vigilance will return to the Markarth stables and you will need to pay the 500 gold price in order to recruit him again.

Vigilance accompanies you like a regular follower would, but he only understands "wait/follow" and "go back home" commands. Other commands and access to his inventory are not available.

Vigilance is not adept at stealth. When you are sneaking up on an enemy, Vigilance will often race forward to attack, which can break your stealth at lower levels.

Vigilance is one of the animal followers that can be adopted as a pet with the Hearthfire add-on.

Notes

• You will be unable to hire Vigilance if Banning is dead.
• There is a bug that may affect any adopted dog. See the Dog article for details.

Bugs

• He may become lost if you move off a set path. Current NPC followers will catch up after a certain amount of time has passed or you fast travel. ^?
• Even when dismissed, he may still be registered as an animal follower, preventing you from recruiting another. ^?
  • Use the console command Set PlayerAnimalCount to 0 to fix this.
  • Getting Meeko as follower will solve this problem since he will always replace your current pet.