I'm beginning to think there's a major issue with dismissing followers you hire on Solstheim in Skyrim. Let me explain.

I hired Teldryn Sero at the Retching Netch as one of my first actions in a new game, and he was with me during all of my journeys until the point where I had to enter the Soul Cairn, at which point I had to take on Serena.

I dismissed Teldryn in Volkihar Keep (playing on the Vamp side), and once I completed Dawnguard, went looking for him at the Retching Netch.

He couldn't be found.

I went back to Volkihar Keep, and started searching on foot as a Vampire Lord (tedious at best, but "detect life" works on corpses as well as living as far as I can tell), all the way to Windhelm, and then looked all over that city. Nothing.

Then a thought occurred to me.

There's only two ways of reaching Solstheim after the first boat ride: by boat or fast travel. What if anyone you hire on Solstheim is stuck in Skyrim due to pathing issues when you release them? If this is the case, then Teldryn should be swimming somewhere off the coast of Windhelm trying to get back home.

Is it possible for someone on PC to look at the files (or check in-game, not sure if that's even possible) to see where Teldryn might have wound up in a similar situation, please?