So I've got about 40 hours into the game and for about 35 of him I had no problems, with the help of a mod, riding a horse with my companion Aela. She would ride along behind me, no problem. But suddenly today she has started flying off at really fast speeds, as many of you have seen in the videos, and she ends up missing. The horse is gone, my companion is gone, just silly bad programming. I don't fast travel and riding a horse was a great alternative, but if I can't have my companion with me, screw it. Fix the freakin bug please, it was reported a long time ago along with several other horse bugs.

Someone did post a thread recently that a butterfly kidnapped his Shadowmere. Now they've moved on to people! We must kill all the butterflies

Speaking seriously, try using console commands

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The horse may be lost, but Aela should appear next to you.

Oh I'm sure, but that's just an immersion breaker. I'll just run around until Bethesda decides to fix horses.

Why is Bethesda responsible for what a mod did to your game?

It's not a mod, it's the game engine. This is a well documented bug, how do you not know that? The mod just lets followers ride with you.

Go Google "Skyrim flying horse" and enjoy the MANY videos.

Hmm. Never seen that one. I don't browse Youtube for bugs, though. I hope for your sake it's not one that they'll continue to ignore.

And the USKP doesn't fix it yet?

Aela = Werewolf.
Horsemeat = Quite tasty apparently.

You figure out the rest.

Skyrim has flying horses?! I want one!

Still, it's the horse of your follower flying off. Aren't those horses added by the mod? Or the mod should've at least tampered with the horses in order to make the game allow your follower to ride it. Besides, it might just be me, but ever since patch 1.5 I've never had flying horses anymore, something the horse from the traveling noble would ALWAYS do with me. So there's a high chance it actually is the mod. Did you try playing without the mod already? You're planning on not using horses yourself anymore anyway, so it might be good to keep an eye out on other traveling horses without the mod activated, and see if they fly off.

Oblivion had Unicorn, Skyrim has Pegasos

Next horse related DLC: Horse Wings

Even better, we'll get a DLC adding an eight-legged horse. (Cookie for the reference)

I used google to find out what you meant, so my internet browser won't be storing a real cookie.

the butterflies...................... THE BUTTERFLIES

On the xBox I have never seen any companion ride a horse...they just run next to us. Also, I have lost enough horses being killed by dragons and such that I just run to anywhere I cant fast travel to.


That would be Odins horse Sleipnir - now gimme my cookie!

Damn, this was my last one...