Make money, hire mercenaries and go from there, you'll get it. It'll be exceptionally difficult to unlock all 6 spots without joining a faction but that's the point. If you don't like the added challenge you can ease up the recruiting difficulty and you'll open one spot per level of ease.
DMT's Invasion of Skyrim Epic Mercenaries, only issue is the price is 12K (one time I think) but you can probably fix that in xedit. NFF has a weekly follower charge option. Inconsequential NPCs on LE adds hireable generic mercenaries to most cities. While it is an LE mod it can be easily converted to SE.
A Worthless Husk of Nothing Apr 17, 2020 @ 9:59am. Originally posted by Patoshik: there is no way to prevent lords from escaping NO MATTER what you do so its pointless to do anything but kill them and suck up that -2 honour for doing which is just b u l l s h i t.Even though the game is in early access this is unacceptable , lords should not be 8Y6oB6.