There has been an interesting turn of events. I'll have to add a section especially for people that cannot be enthralled-- or reanimated at all. It seems Bethesda never intended us to invoke the powers of necromancy upon Gunjar. He'll resist Dead Thrall at level 15 (sorry, I can't cast it any lower on this file) and Ritual Stone doesn't even recognize him as a dead body... Sooo... I'll put that up when I'm around to it.
For the first time I tried using masterpug's Grave Robbing technique. To my surprise it worked (although, without all the steps he lists. Instead of waiting 24 hours, I reloaded the auto-save when entering the building. Then I just traveled back to Markarth from Riften and Weylin and Margaret became semi-permanent/permanent... (I put a note on every body anyway)). I had my doubts, but now, I'm the proud owner of Weylin indefinitely... And before ya'll ask, yes, everytime he dies he gasps, "I die for my people!" It's wonderful. I was planning on keeping Margaret as well. The method worked, but sadly, I was more inclined to try to keep Vigilant Tyranus. This latter task has become a little odd, though, I believe it can be explained.
Tyranus appears to be affected by GR... GR? ... Sure... But, as soon as you leave the city he'll disappear. I get the feeling, despite GR working, the game does a second check for his body. Anywho, I'm going to keep him around until I finish up on Molag's request. I'll try again, and hopefully Tyranus will become semi-permanent thereafter.
Anything else of note? hmm...
Well, Bashnag is a fearsome warlock. His Frost Atronach is fetching, and so are his dual casts. He appears to have a much larger magicka pool than Drelas, which saddens me... but, I guess that's okay... i do prefer Drelas' AI in general though. Where Bashnag will either solely use magic or a weapon, Drelas will expend his mana and then use his weapon. 'Course, I haven't given Bashnag or Drelas a whole lot of time under the microscope...
From the experience I had with the conjuring Dremora, I get the feeling Bashnag's neglectful behavior towards the atronach staff I gave him, (and taking into considering the various line-ups of staves some NPCs need) is a result of the same AI characteristic. I haven't gone so far, but I'm assuming he'll need to cast two atronachs in the same battle-- against the same opponent, before using it as the Dremora does.
Now that I'm back in the saddle with a vampiric necromage, it will be good fun to try to collect dead dead bodies again. I'm going to start with Lucky, move on to Silverdrift Lair, and then see where necromancy takes me. Hoorah!
