Conjuration Sphere

If your companion is reduced to 0 hit points and disappears, you may re-summon it by increasing the spell point cost of summon by one. The companion reappears at one quarter of its maximum hit points with 1 temporary negative level. Any other conditions or ongoing effects on the companion are removed.

This negative level lasts until you rest to regain spell points but otherwise may not be removed. After using this talent you may re-summon the companion as normal without an increased cost, but if the target is reduced to 0 hit points and this talent is used on them again, the negative temporary levels stack. If the companion accumulates negative levels equal to its Hit Dice, it may not be summoned again until the negative levels are removed by resting to regain spell points. 1 Hit Die companions may be summoned by this ability once per day, but take a -1 penalty on all d20 checks in place of the negative level.

You gain an additional companion. Whenever you summon a companion, you must select only one of your companions, although you may have multiple companions summoned at once. You may select this talent multiple times. Each time it is selected, gain another companion.

When you spend a spell point to allow a companion to remain for 1 minute per caster level without concentration, it instead remains for 10 minutes per caster level.

You gain a telepathic link to each of your companions. So long as you are on the same plane as one of your companions, you may communicate with that creature over any distance.

When you summon a companion, you may spend an additional spell point to summon an additional companion that you possess. You must spend 1 additional spell point per companion, but may summon up to 1 additional companion, +1 per 5 caster levels you possess as part of the same action.

Additional costs to summon each companion must be paid separately, as well as spell points spent to allow the companions to endure without concentration. However, if you choose to maintain these summoned companions via concentration, you may maintain all companions summoned through Mass Summon as part of the same concentration action.

When it is not summoned, you may have any of your companions sense anything you sense and may communicate with them telepathically. The companions may attempt Wisdom- or Intelligence-based non-physical skill checks when observing through you. You may obstruct the perceptions of certain companions if you wish.

If you possess the Link talent, you may communicate telepathically with your companions even if they are on another plane.

When you summon a companion, they may appear in any square within close range, rather than only in an adjacent square.

Your companions can deliver touch spells and sphere abilities for you. If you and one of your companions are in contact at the time you cast a touch spell or sphere ability requiring a melee touch attack, you can designate your companion as the “toucher.” You may touch a companion within your natural reach as a free action during your turn to initiate this contact; your companion may do the same during its turn. The companion can then deliver the touch spell or ability just as you would. As usual, if you cast another spell or sphere ability before the touch is delivered, the touch spell or ability dissipates.

You may take this talent a multiple times. If taken twice, the companion may be anywhere within close range of you when you cast the touch spell or ability and may also deliver ranged touch attacks, using its attack modifiers and serving as the effect’s point of origin. Each additional time this talent is taken, increase the range at which this ability functions by one step, to a maximum of long range.

When you target yourself with a sphere effect, you may spend an additional spell point to apply the effect to up to one Conjuration sphere companion, +1 companion per 5 caster levels. All affected companions must be within 5 feet + 5 feet per 5 caster levels. This ability may be used even on effects that normally can only target the caster.

Your companion is connected to great forces of alignment, such as angels, devils, or other extraplanars. Choose one end of the alignment spectrum your companion possesses (good, evil, lawful, chaotic). Your companion becomes connected to that alignment, and may smite a target of its opposed alignment once per day, as the paladin class feature. Your companion may smite its opposed alignment an additional time per day for every 7 Hit Dice possessed.

Your companion increases or decreases permanently by 1 size category. A companion may gain this talent multiple times. The effects stack. A companion cannot become smaller than Diminutive or larger than Huge. Size changes cause the same changes as detailed in the Size Change Alteration talent.

You may spend an additional spell point to choose a different base form for your companion each time you summon it. Any (form) talents that cannot be applied to the new base form become inactive until a valid base form is chosen.

Your companion has the qualities of a great beast. It gains a +20 feet bonus to its land speed, as well as the scent ability. It gains an additional +10 feet bonus to its land speed for every 2 Hit Dice.

Your companion gains armor as appropriate for its form and appearance (a suit of armor, a tougher hide, buffeting winds, etc.). Your companion gains a +2 armor bonus, +1 at every odd Hit Die beyond 1st.

Your companion gains wings and a 30 feet fly speed with a maneuverability of average. This increases by 10 feet per 2 Hit Dice. Alternatively, your companion may gain flight through magical means: it does not gain wings, instead gaining a maneuverability of perfect. This then becomes a supernatural ability, and is subject to anti-magic fields and other such limitations.

Your companion is learned in the ways of war. It gains proficiency with all simple weapons and when summoned, appears with up to 2 weapons it is proficient with (masterwork, but of unremarkable composition). These weapons gain a +1 enhancement bonus for every 3 Hit Dice possessed to a maximum of +5. A companion may gain this form talent twice. If gained a second time, it gains proficiency with all martial weapons and treats its Hit Dice as fighter levels when meeting the prerequisites for feats.

Note: If using Spheres of Might, companions with Battle Creature (form) may take martial traditions instead of proficiency with all martial weapons.

Your companion gains a new set of natural attacks chosen from the list below. A companion must possess the prerequisite limbs and cannot already have a natural attack attached to that limb. A companion may gain this talent multiple times. Each time they gain this talent, they gain a new set of natural attacks.

• One bite attack (primary, 1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, requires head).
• Two claw attacks (primary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires arms or the front pair of at least 4 legs).
• One gore attack (primary, 1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, requires head).
• Two hoof attacks (secondary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires 2 legs, but creature must possess at least 4).
• Two pincers (secondary, 1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, requires arms).
• Two slam attacks (primary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires arms).
• One sting (primary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires tail).
• One tail slap (secondary, 1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, requires tail).
• Two talons (primary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires 2 legs and creature must be airborne to use).
• One tentacle attack (secondary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, no requirement).
• Two wing buffets (secondary, 1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small, requires wings).

Your companion’s abilities and Hit Dice are determined as if your caster level were 1 higher, increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice you possess. This bonus cannot cause you to have an effective caster level greater than your own Hit Dice.

Your companion may shift its coloration to mimic its environment, granting a circumstance bonus on Stealth checks equal to 1 + 1/2 the companion’s Hit Dice. Additionally, the companion gains 1 rank in the Stealth skill per Hit Die; if it already possesses ranks in the Stealth skill, those ranks may be immediately re-trained at no cost.

Your companion gains a bonus feat for which it qualifies, chosen at the time this talent is taken. This talent may be taken more than once for each companion; each time it grants an additional bonus feat to that companion.

Your companion may climb virtually any surface, no matter how slick or sheer. It can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a spider does. The companion must have at least 3 limbs free to climb in this manner. The companion gains a climb speed of 20 feet, including the +8 racial bonus on Climb checks from having a climb speed; furthermore, it need not attempt Climb checks to traverse a vertical or horizontal surface (even upside down). A companion climbing this way retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) while climbing, and opponents get no special bonus to their attacks against it. It cannot, however, use the run action while climbing. If the companion already possesses a climb speed, it gains a +10 feet bonus to that climb speed.

You may treat your companion as if it had the Cooperative Crafting feat and possessed all your Craft skill ranks and item creation feats. All Craft and Profession skills are class skills for your companion. This talent does not remove the need for your companion to have appropriate anatomy in order to be capable of crafting.

Your companion is draconic in nature. It gains a breath weapon which it may use once per 1d4 rounds. You must decide when this talent is gained whether your companion will breathe a 30-foot cone or a 60-foot line and whether it deals acid, cold, electricity, or fire damage. It deals 1d8 damage per 2 Hit Dice (minimum 1d8), and creatures may attempt Reflex saves (DC 10 + 1/2 Hit Dice + Constitution modifier) for half damage.

Your companion is a creature used to living in the ground. It gains a 15 feet burrow speed and tremorsense 10 feet. Its burrow speed and tremorsense increase by 5 feet per 2 Hit Dice.

Your companion is a being attuned to a particular element. Choose either acid, cold, electricity, or fire. Your companion deals 1d3 damage of that element’s type with all of its natural attacks. This damage increases by one die size per 5 Hit Dice.

If your companion possesses the familiar companion archetype, you may spend 1 spell point as a standard action to increase its Hit Dice to the amount it would normally have without this archetype. These additional Hit Dice remain for as long as you concentrate (using the same action normally used to concentrate on a companion) and any decisions about feats or ability score increases from these additional Hit Dice are made when this talent is selected.

If you spend 1 additional spell point, your companion retains these additional Hit Dice for 1 minute per caster level without concentration. Any talent which would extend the duration of your summons (such as Greater Summoning or Lingering Companion) similarly extend the duration of this transformation. Any additional feats or ability score increases gained from these additional Hit Dice are determined when you select this talent and may be changed when you gain a level.

When your companion is reduced to 0 hit points or fewer, it explodes in a burst of energy, dealing 1d6 damage per Hit Die to all creatures within 5 feet + 5 feet per 5 Hit Dice. This damage is either acid, cold, electricity, or fire, chosen when this talent is gained. A successful Reflex save vs. your Conjuration sphere DC halves this damage.

Your companion gains one of the following sets of limbs: a head, 2 arms, 2 legs, a tail. This does not automatically grant any additional attacks. See the Alteration sphere for descriptions of bonuses gained from these limbs. A companion may gain this talent multiple times. The effects stack.

Your companion suffers no harm from being in a hot or cold environment and can exist comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (-45 and 60 degrees Celsius) without having to attempt Fortitude saves. The companion’s equipment is likewise protected. This does not provide any protection from fire or cold damage, nor does it protect against other environmental hazards such as smoke, lack of air, and so forth.

If your companion also possesses Avian Creature, it is acclimated to living at high altitudes and additionally can treat its altitude zone as one lower, plus an additional 1 zone lower per 7 Hit Dice.

If your companion also possesses Water Being, it is immune to the pressures of the ocean and takes no damage from water pressure.

Your companion’s Constitution increases by 2, +1 per 2 Hit Dice.

Your companion appears with an implement of a sphere chosen when this talent is gained. This implement gains a +1 enhancement bonus for every 3 Hit Dice possessed to a maximum of +5 (minimum +1). The implement may take any desired shape (a staff, a ring, etc.), and if the companion possesses another talent that grants it equipment (such as Battle Creature or Shield Bearer), it may choose to combine the benefits of the implement and the summoned equipment, creating one item that functions as both.

Choose one of the following diseases: blinding sickness, bubonic plague, cackle fever, filth fever, leprosy, mindfire, red ache, shakes, or slimy doom. When a creature takes damage from a manufactured or natural weapon attack made by your companion, it must succeed on a Fortitude save with a DC of 10 + 1/2 your companion’s Hit Dice + Constitution modifier or contract the disease immediately (the onset period does not apply). Use the disease’s listed frequency and save DC to determine further effects. Regardless of the success or failure of this save, the creature is immune to further applications of this ability by your companion for 24 hours.

When you spend a spell point to allow this companion to remain for 1 minute per caster level without concentration, you may spend an additional spell point to allow it to remain for 1 hour per level instead. If you also possess the Greater Summoning talent, your companion instead remains for 1 day or until you rest to regain spell points, whichever comes first. Once you have spent a spell point to summon such a creature for a full day, you may dismiss and re-summon this companion at will without having to spend any additional spell points that day.

Your companion’s natural attacks are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. At 7 Hit Dice they are treated as cold iron and silver for this purpose, and at 14 Hit Dice they are treated as adamantine.

As a free action, your companion may telepathically request magical aid from you. You may then transfer any number of your own spell points to your companion. These spell points last until you rest to regain spell points.

Your companion possesses powerful, natural magic. It is considered to possess the casting class feature with no casting tradition (natural casting) and uses Charisma as its casting ability modifier. Its Charisma increases by 1/2 its Hit Dice (minimum +1) and it gains a spell pool equal to its Charisma modifier, and a caster level equal to 1/2 its Hit Dice. The companion does not gain 2 bonus magic talents like most casters do, but may select magic talents with its feats. A companion can never possess the Conjuration sphere.

Your companion gains one of the following traits: Constrict (as the Tentacles talent from the Alteration sphere), grab, lunge, pull, poison (as the Vermin Transformation talent from the Alteration sphere), or trip.

This trait applies an effect or ability to one of its natural attacks. A companion may gain this talent multiple times, gaining a new trait each time. It cannot attach the same trait multiple times to the same natural attack.

This talent may only be applied to companions with a base form suitable to serve as a mount (usually quadruped, serpentine, or vermin, though others may be allowed at the GM’s discretion).

Your companion always acts on your initiative while you are mounted upon it and always appears equipped with a suitable military saddle for its form that does not count against its carrying capacity. You may mount such a companion as part of casting summon if the companion appears within your natural reach. You gain a +1 insight bonus on Ride checks while mounted on your companion. This bonus increases by +1 per 5 caster levels.

If your companion possesses a burrow speed or the earth glide ability, you may travel with it while mounted. This does not grant any ability to perceive your surroundings or any ability to breathe while underground.

The target gains one of the following traits from the Muensterous Traits talent from the Alteration sphere: Cheese Body, Dangerously Cheesy, Spray Fondue.

Your companion gains a pool of ki points, supernatural energy it can use to accomplish amazing feats, as the unchained monk class feature. The number of points in your companion’s ki pool is equal to 1/2 his Hit Dice + its Wisdom modifier (total minimum 1). As long as it has at least 1 point in its ki pool, its unarmed strikes and natural attacks are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. It may take ki powers from the unchained monk list in place of feats, using its Hit Dice in place of unchained monk levels for meeting prerequisites.

Your companion gains one of the following special monster qualities: Fast healing 1, leaping attack, pounce, rend, rock catching, rock throwing, or trample.

A companion may gain this talent multiple times. Each time it is gained, they gain a new trait from the list. See the Alteration sphere for a description of each ability.

Your companion’s Strength increases by 2, +1 per 2 Hit Dice.

Your companion’s Dexterity increases by 2, +1 per 2 Hit Dice.

Your companion gains the ability to rage, as the barbarian class feature, for a number of rounds per day equal to the higher of its Constitution modifier and its Hit Dice. While in rage, the companion gains a +4 morale bonus to its Strength and Constitution, as well as a +2 morale bonus on Will saves. In addition, it takes a –2 penalty to Armor Class. The increase to Constitution grants the companion 2 hit points per Hit Dice, but these disappear when the rage ends and are not lost first like temporary hit points. While in rage, a companion cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration.

The companion can end its rage as a free action and is fatigued after rage for a number of rounds equal to 2 times the number of rounds spent in the rage. The companion cannot enter a new rage while fatigued or exhausted but can otherwise enter rage multiple times during a single encounter or combat.

The duration of the fatigue or exhaustion expires even when the companion is not summoned. If the companion falls unconscious, its rage immediately ends, placing it in peril of dismissal from hit point loss.

The companion may take rage powers in place of feats, if it qualifies for them, using its Hit Dice in place of barbarian levels.

Special: If your GM permits, you may instead use the rage ability per the unchained barbarian, modifying the above ability accordingly.

You companion gains the swallow whole ability, allowing it to make a grapple attempt to swallow a creature that it has grappled at the start of its turn as a standard action. If the companion possesses a bite attack, a successful grapple check to swallow whole deals bite damage.

Each round the creature remains swallowed, it is dealt 1d6 bludgeoning damage plus an additional 1d6 acid damage per 3 Hit Dice (minimum 0d6). Your companion may swallow creatures up to one size smaller than itself. This trait may be taken twice; the second time allows your companion to swallow creatures up to their own size and grants a bonus to CMB and CMD equal to 1 plus 1 per 3 Hit Dice on grapple checks made to swallow creatures or to prevent them from escaping once swallowed. More than one creature may be swallowed at a time, but you may not exceed the maximum total size that can be swallowed, counting two Tiny creatures as one Small creature, two Small creatures as one Medium creature, etc.

A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon, or it can try to escape the grapple. The amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 the companion’s total hit points. This damage is inflicted on the companion as normal.

The armor class of the interior of a creature that swallows whole is 10 + 1/2 its natural armor bonus, with no modifiers for size or Dexterity. If a swallowed creature cuts its way out, the swallowing creature cannot use swallow whole again until the companion receives healing equal to the damage dealt. If the swallowed creature escapes the grapple, success puts it back in the attacker’s mouth, where it may be bitten (if the companion possesses a bite attack) or swallowed again.

Choose one energy type from the following list: acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic. Your companion gains energy resistance to that element equal to 5 + its Hit Dice. You may select this talent multiple times, granting energy resistance against a different element each time.

Your companion is a creature of guile. Your companion deals +1d6 sneak attack damage as the rogue class feature, which increases to +2d6 at 7 Hit Dice and +3d6 at 14 Hit Dice. In addition, your companion may select rogue talents as feats. At 10 Hit Dice, it can select advanced talents as feats.

Your companion’s Intelligence increases by 2, +1 per 2 Hit Dice and gains a bonus on skill checks to identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures equal to half its Hit Dice (minimum 1). This increase stacks with the Skillful Companion talent. Your companion gains additional skill points from this increased Intelligence as usual.

Choose one of the following abilities. This talent may be taken more than once; each time a different ability may be gained:

Bleed: Choose one natural attack your companion possesses. That attack inflicts 1d2 bleed damage. This bleeding can be stopped by a successful DC 15 Heal check or through the application of any magical healing. The die size of this bleed damage increases by one size for every 4 Hit Dice the companion possesses (1d3, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, etc.).

Blood Drain: Your companion drains blood at the end of its turn if it grapples a foe, inflicting 1 point of Constitution damage. This damage increases to 1d2 at 5 Hit Dice, then one die size for every 5 additional Hit Dice thereafter (1d3, 1d4, etc.).

Thirst: Your companion gains 1 temporary hit point per Hit Die of the grappled creature whenever it uses its blood drain ability. These temporary hit points last for 1 minute per Hit Die of the companion and do not stack with other uses of this ability. The companion must have the blood drain option of this talent to be eligible to gain this ability.

Your companion is a being made of shadow. It gains darkvision 60 feet, low-light vision, and a +8 racial bonus to Stealth checks made in dim light or darkness. Your companion takes half damage from attacks and magic originating from corporeal creatures and only deals half damage to corporeal creatures with its own attacks and magic. However, your companion deals full damage to incorporeal creatures and suffers full damage from incorporeal creatures.

Your companion gains the shield proficiency feat, and when summoned, appears carrying a type of shield it is proficient with. If the creature possesses the Tower Shield Proficiency feat, this may be a tower shield. The shield is masterwork, but of unremarkable composition. This shield gains a +1 enhancement bonus for every 3 Hit Dice your companion possesses, to a maximum of +5.

Your companion can shock others, like an electric eel. As a standard action, your companion may make a melee touch attack that deals 1d8 plus 1d8 per 2 Hit Dice electricity damage. This touch attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity. If a creature successfully grapples this companion, the companion may use this ability as an immediate action, inflicting the damage with no attack roll, but allowing a Fortitude saving throw for half damage. If this companion is in water, this ability instead functions as a 10-foot radius burst centered on the companion; affected creatures are allowed a Fortitude saving throw for half damage. Creatures beyond 10-foot but within a 30-foot radius takes half damage, with a Fortitude save for half damage. Once used, this ability cannot be used again for 1d4 rounds.

When you take this talent, choose 2 skills that you have ranks in. When it is summoned, your companion can apply your total skill ranks and class skill bonuses in place of its own when attempting these skill checks. This cannot grant the companion more ranks in a skill than its number of Hit Dice.

Your companion’s Intelligence increases by 3 (raising its base Intelligence to 10), and it gains an additional skill point per Hit Die (raising its total to 3 per level). In addition, it gains 3 new class skills of your choice.

Your companion gains spell resistance equal to 10 + its Hit Dice. This spell resistance does not apply to any effects originating from you.

Your companion gains one of the abilities listed below. This talent may be taken more than once; each time a different ability may be gained:

Nauseating Spray: As a standard action your companion may spray noxious chemicals in a 15-foot cone. Any creature in this cone must succeed at a Fortitude save with a DC of 10 + 1/2 Hit Dice + Constitution modifier or be sickened for 1d6 rounds. This is a poison effect.

Stench: Your companion secretes a stinking chemical offensive to most living things. Any creature other than you adjacent to your companion must succeed at a Fortitude save or be sickened until 1d6 rounds after they are no longer adjacent. A creature that saves against this effect is immune to any instance of it from the same companion for 24 hours. This is a poison effect.

Your companion gains either darkvision 60 feet, low-light vision, or the scent ability. If your companion possesses darkvision from another source, increase its range by 30 feet. If it already possesses the scent ability, it may either increase its range to 60 feet or gain the keen scent ability.

Keen Scent: The companion can notice other creatures by scent in a 180-foot radius underwater and can detect blood in the water at ranges of up to a mile.

Additionally, if you or your companion possesses any of the following spheres, you may choose the following special senses instead of one listed above:

Dark Sphere: Your companion may gain the see in darkness ability. You must spend 1 additional spell point as part of your summon to grant your companion the benefit from this ability.

Life Sphere: Your companion may gain lifesense 30 feet. The creature notices and locates living creatures within range, just as if it possessed the blindsight ability. You must spend 2 additional spell points as part of your summon to grant your companion the benefit of this ability.

Mind Sphere: Your companion may gain thoughtsense 30 feet. This ability functions similarly to blindsight. Nondetection, mind blank, and similar effects can block thoughtsense. Thoughtsense can distinguish between sentient (Intelligence 3 or greater) and nonsentient (Intelligence 1-2) creatures, but otherwise provides no information about the creatures it detects. You must spend 2 additional spell points as part of your summon to grant your companion the benefit of this ability.

Nature Sphere ((earth) package): Your companion may either gain the ability to see through up to 5 feet of dirt and stone or gain tremorsense 30 feet. You must spend 1 additional spell point as part of your summon to grant your companion tremorsense. A companion with tremorsense is sensitive to vibrations in the ground and can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is in contact with the ground. Aquatic creatures with tremorsense can also sense the location of creatures moving through water.

Nature Sphere ((fire) package): Your companion may gain the ability to see through both magical and mundane smoke, ignoring the miss chance for these obstructions, up to its normal range of vision.

Nature Sphere ((metal) package): Your companion gains the scent metal ability. This ability functions much the same as the scent ability, except that the range is 90 feet and the companion can only use it to sense metal objects (including creatures wearing or carrying metal objects). If the companion already has the scent ability, increase the range of this ability by the companion’s scent range.

Nature Sphere ((plant) package): Your companion can see through thick plant matter as though it were transparent, with a range of 30 feet. Leaves, vines, greenery, and undergrowth offer no concealment to the companion’s sight, though solid wood still blocks its line of sight.

Nature Sphere ((water) package): Your companion may see through fog, mist, and murky water as if they were perfectly clear, ignoring the miss chance for these obstructions, up to its normal range of vision.

Telekinesis Sphere: Your companion may gain touchsight 30 feet. You must spend 2 additional spell points as part of your summon to grant your companion the benefit from this ability. Your companion may ignore invisibility, darkness, and concealment, though it must have line of effect to a creature or an object to discern it. It does not need to attempt Perception checks to notice creatures; it can detect and pinpoint all creatures within 30 feet.

A companion may gain this talent multiple times. Each time it gains this talent, select a new sense or increase the range of their darkvision by 30 feet. If a selected ability requires an additional spell point cost, the caster must choose to grant the ability and pay the cost each time the companion is summoned.

The companion grows spines, quills, or thorns. These may be treated as armor spikes of their size (1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, 20x2, piercing) but may be enhanced as natural weapons and may be wielded as a secondary natural weapon if beneficial. The companion is automatically proficient with these spikes. This talent may be taken a second time, allowing the companion to launch spines as a thrown weapon (1d6 Medium, 1d4 Small, 20x2, piercing) with a range increment of 20 feet. The companion may draw the spines as a free action and throw them for any attacks it is entitled to normally. Launched spines regenerate at the end of its turn.

The companion may select a trade tradition and has a trade rank of adroit. This replaces the companion’s normal class skills. When first summoned, they may choose either Charisma, Intelligence or Wisdom as their operative modifier. The companion may select skill talents in place of feats and combat talents gained from the Martial Companion archetype.

Your companion can change its appearance at will. It gains Disguise as a class skill and can attempt Disguise checks as a standard action. This is a spell-like ability, with a caster level equal to its Hit Dice.

Your companion is a natural talent for the trapbreaker’s art. The companion adds 1/2 its Hit Dice to Perception checks made to locate traps and to Disable Device checks (minimum +1). The companion can use Disable Device to disarm magic traps. It may take rogue talents in place of feats, if it qualifies for them, using its Hit Dice in place of rogue levels. At 10 Hit Dice, it can select advanced talents as feats.

Your companion gains a 30 feet swim speed, the ability to breathe underwater, and blindsense 15 feet (only in water). For every 2 Hit Dice, the swim speed increases by 10 feet and the blindsense increases by 5 feet.

Your companion gains the ability to use webs to support itself and up to one additional creature of the same size. In addition, it can throw a web up to once per minute as a standard action. This is similar to an attack with a net but has a maximum range of 50 feet, with a range increment of 10 feet, and is effective against targets up to one size category larger than the companion. An entangled creature can escape with a successful Escape Artist check or burst the web with a Strength check. Both are standard actions with a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 the companion’s Hit Dice + the companion’s Constitution modifier. Attempts to burst a web by those caught in it take a –4 penalty.

The companion can create sheets of sticky webbing in adjacent squares up to three times its size (so a Medium companion can create a sheet that is 15-foot-by-15-foot.). Doing so requires a full-round action and counts as having used its web.

Approaching creatures must succeed on a DC 20 Perception check to notice a web; otherwise they stumble into it and become trapped as though by a successful web attack. Attempts to escape or burst the webbing gain a +5 bonus if the trapped creature has something to walk on or grab while pulling free. Each 5-foot-square section of web has a number of hit points equal to the Hit Dice of the companion that created it and DR 5/—.

If the companion possesses a climb speed, it can move across its own web at its climb speed. While touching a web it created, the companion can pinpoint the location of any creature touching its web.

If your companion is dismissed, any webs it created immediately disappear.

Your companion’s Wisdom increases by 2, +1 per 2 Hit Dice. In addition, whenever your companion rolls a Will saving throw, it may roll twice and take the higher result. If it may already roll twice and take the higher result, it instead rolls three times.

Your companion is of this plane but not of this world. The companion gains the aberration creature type. The companion gains darkvision out to 60 feet and low-light vision. The companion gains a +1 bonus to saves vs. divination and compulsion effects, +1 per 5 Hit Dice as well as a +1 bonus to CMB and CMD +1 per 5 Hit Dice.

You may take this talent twice. If taken twice, your companion’s bonuses improve to +1 saves vs. divination and compulsion effects +1 per 3 Hit Dice and +1 bonus to CMB and CMD +1 per 3 Hit Dice. In addition, the companion gains all-around vision.

Your companion is mechanical in its nature, whether it is a full construct or a modified biological creature. The companion gains the construct creature type. The companion gains moderate fortification and DR 2/adamantine +1 per 3 Hit Dice.

You may take this talent twice. If taken twice, your companion gains heavy fortification, DR 3/- +1 per 3 Hit Dice, and your companion no longer needs to breathe, granting it immunity to drowning, suffocation, or gas-based effects.

Your companion has strong ties to the Faerie. The companion gains the fey creature type. The companion gains DR 2/ cold iron +1 per 5 Hit Dice, +1 saves vs. charms and sleep +1 per 5 Hit Dice.

You may take this talent twice. If taken twice, your companion’s bonuses improve to DR 3/cold iron +1 per 3 Hit Dice, +1 saves vs. illusions and mind-affecting effects +1 per 3 Hit Dice.

Your companion mimics the properties of oozes. The companion gains the ooze creature type. Your companion can move through an area as small as one-quarter its space without squeezing or one-eighth its space when squeezing. The companion gains moderate fortification.

You may take this talent twice for a given companion. If taken twice, your companion gains heavy fortification, and your companion can engulf creatures in its path. As a standard action, the companion may move up to its speed and attempt to engulf any creature smaller than itself that is in its path. It cannot make other attacks during a round in which it engulfs. The companion merely has to move over its opponents, affecting as many as it can cover.

Targeted creatures can make attacks of opportunity against the companion, but if they do so, they are not entitled to a saving throw against the engulf attack. Those who do not attempt attacks of opportunity can attempt a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 Hit Dice + Strength modifier) to avoid being engulfed—on a success, they are pushed back or aside (companion’s choice) as the companion moves forward. Engulfed creatures gain the pinned condition, are in danger of suffocating, are trapped within the companion’s body until they are no longer pinned, and take slam damage from the companion each round (1d4 Medium, 1d3 Small if no slam attack is possessed). An engulfed creature may attempt to escape as if escaping a pin.

Your Conjuration companion is strongly tied to the alignment planes. Choose one of the following alignment groups. Your companion gains two of the options listed under that alignment group. Taking this talent a second time grants the remaining two options under that alignment.

Anarchic

• DR 2/lawful (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Energy resistance (acid, electricity, sonic) equal to 1/2 Hit Dice
• +1 saves vs. mind-affecting effects (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Attacks count as chaotic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Axiomatic

• DR 2/chaotic (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• DR vs. nonlethal damage equal to 1/2 Hit Dice
• +1 saves vs. death effects (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Attacks count as lawful for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Celestial

• DR 2/evil (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Energy resistance (acid, cold, electricity) equal to 1/2 Hit Dice
• +1 saves vs. disease (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Attacks count as good for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Fiendish

• DR 2/good (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Energy resistance (cold, fire) equal to 1/2 Hit Dice
• +1 saves vs. poison (increasing by +1 per 5 Hit Dice)
• Attacks count as evil for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Your companion mimics the properties of plants. The companion gains the plant creature type. The companion gains lowlight vision and a +2 bonus on saves against paralysis, poison, polymorph, sleep, and stunning effects. This bonus increases by +1 per 2 Hit Dice.

You may take this talent twice. If taken twice, your companion gains a +2 bonus on saves against mind-affecting effects that increases by +1 per 2 Hit Dice, immunity to paralysis, poison, polymorph, sleep, and stunning effects, and no longer requires sleep.

Your companion mimics the properties of undead. It is healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy. The companion gains the undead creature type. The companion also gains +2 channel resistance, as well as a +2 bonus on saves against disease, exhaustion, fatigue, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning. These bonuses and channel resistance increases by +1 per 2 Hit Dice.

You may take this talent twice. If taken twice, your companion gains immunity to disease, exhaustion, fatigue, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning, and your companion no longer needs to breathe, granting it immunity to drowning, suffocation, or gas-based effects.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere, caster level 1st.

You may call beings from other planes and bring them into your own. Calling a creature in this manner takes 10 minutes of focused casting and costs 2 spell points. Calling takes one of two forms: allies and hostiles. If you call a servant of an extraplanar being with which you have a strong connection (i.e., a cleric calling a servant of its god) they are considered an ally. All other creatures are considered hostiles, regardless of their disposition towards the caster. GMs have the final say in whether or not a character is capable of calling allies.

To call a target, you must choose a location within close range for them to appear, and the kind of creature to be called must be known and stated. If you wish to call a specific individual, you must use that individual’s proper name. You may call multiple creatures with one use of this ability (up to 3 at once) but the Hit Dice of a single creature cannot exceed your MSB, while the combined Hit Dice of all creatures cannot exceed your caster level.

Allies: Allies are never hostile and do not resist, although additional payment is always expected for their services. Payment can take a variety of forms, from donating gold or magic items to an allied temple, to a gift given directly to the creature, to a quest on your part that matches the creature’s alignment and goals. Regardless, this payment must be made before the creature agrees to perform any services. The bargaining takes at least 1 round, so any actions by the creature begin in the round after it arrives.

A task taking up to 1 minute per caster level requires a payment of 100 gp per Hit Die of the creature called. For a task taking up to 1 hour per caster level, the creature requires a payment of 500 gp per Hit Die. A long-term task, one requiring up to 1 day per caster level, requires a payment of 1,000 gp per Hit Die. A nonhazardous task requires only half the indicated payment, while an especially hazardous task might require a greater gift.

Few if any creatures will accept a task that seems suicidal (unlike a companion from the Conjuration sphere that simply returns to its home plane when reduced to 0 hit points, a called creature actually dies when it is killed). However, at the GM’s discretion, if the task is strongly aligned with the creature’s ethos, it may halve or even waive the payment.

If an agreement cannot be reached, the ally returns to their home plane immediately. If you are not willing to give the requested payment, but attempt to press the target into service anyway, treat the creature as hostile. Pressing a creature in this way may have a detrimental effect on any future attempts to call an allied outsider.

Hostiles: If a hostile creature is unwilling to be called, it is allowed a Will saving throw to resist. If the saving throw succeeds, the creature is not called. If the saving throw fails, the creature is immediately called (spell resistance does not keep it from being called).

When a hostile creature is called, it is rooted to a specific location within range (you can decide how much space to give it, up to a 30-foot radius). It cannot leave this area until an agreement with you has been reached. It can escape this location by successfully pitting its spell resistance against your magic skill check, by teleportation or dimensional travel, or with a successful Charisma check pitted against a DC of your MSD + your Charisma modifier. It can try each method once per day. If it breaks loose, it can do as it pleases, including fleeing, returning to its home plane, or attacking you.

If the creature does not break free of its prison, you can keep it bound for as long as you dare. You can attempt to compel the creature to perform a service by describing the service and perhaps offering some sort of reward. You make a Charisma check opposed by the creature’s Charisma check. The check is assigned a bonus of +0 to +6 based on the nature of the service and the reward. If the creature wins the opposed check, it refuses service. New offers, bribes, and the like can be made or the old ones re-offered every 24 hours. This process can be repeated until the creature promises to serve, until it breaks free, or until you decide to dismiss it (a free action so long as it remains trapped). Impossible demands or unreasonable commands are never agreed to. If you ever roll a natural 1 on the Charisma check, the creature breaks free of the spell’s effect and can escape or attack you.

Once the requested service is completed, the creature need only to inform you to be instantly sent back whence it came. The creature might later seek revenge. If you assign some open-ended task that the creature cannot complete through its own actions, the effect remains for a maximum of 1 day per caster level, and the creature gains an immediate chance to break free (with the same chance to resist as when it was trapped).

Note that a clever recipient can subvert some instructions. At the end of its task, or when the bargained duration expires, a called ally returns to its home plane (after reporting back to you, if appropriate and possible).

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere, caster level 5th.

When you summon a companion, you may spend an additional spell point to have it possess your body rather than materializing in its own form. The companion possesses your body as the wraith’s passive possession or active possession class feature with an effective wraith level equal to your caster level. They may switch between active and passive possession as a swift action. This possession lasts for the duration of the summon and can be dismissed as normal. You may take actions to dismiss a companion that is possessing you even when you could not normally take actions. You may only be possessed by one creature at a time.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Conjuration Sphere (Channel Companion (advanced)), Death Sphere (Project Spirit)

As part of the action to use Project Spirit, you may summon your companion possessing your body as per Channel Companion, spending spell points as normal. Rather than falling into suspended animation, your summoned companion controls your body’s actions until your spirit returns to the body.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Call Planar Creature (advanced)), caster level 1st.

When using the Call Planar Creature advanced talent to call hostile creatures, your traps are even harder to break than usual. If you spend 10 minutes and succeed at a DC 20 Spellcraft check to prepare a summoning circle before you call a creature, that creature finds it very difficult to escape. You cannot know the result of your Spellcraft check until after the calling is performed, but you may take 20 on this check by dedicating 3 hours and 20 minutes to creating the circle.

If your check is successful, the called creature cannot use its spell resistance to attempt to escape its prison, nor use any dimensional or teleportation effects, nor can any of its abilities or attacks cross the prison’s border. When pitting its Charisma against your trap, the DC increases by 5. While a creature cannot disturb the summoning circle, if any outside force disturbs the circle (even a hair falling across it), the called creature is immediately freed.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Call Planar Creature (advanced)).

By spending 2 spell points as a standard action, you may select a creature within close range which you could call using Call Planar Creature. That creature must succeed at a Will save or become trapped as if it had been called using Call Planar Creature. Creatures trapped in this way are always considered hostile and may be contained or bargained with as normal. If you possess the Diagram advanced talent, you may spend an additional spell point to apply its effects to a trap created using this talent without spending any additional time.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Call The Departed), caster level 5th.

You do not increase the spell point cost for re-summoning companions who have disappeared, nor do such companions suffer temporary negative levels from having disappeared.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Altered Size (form)), caster level 15th.

You may increase the size of a Huge companion to Gargantuan or a Gargantuan companion to Colossal. You may decrease the size of a Diminutive companion to Fine. This talent may be taken more than once for the same companion to enlarge the companion from Gargantuan to Colossal.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Natural Aspect (form) (fast healing option)), companion with 3 Hit Dice or greater.

Your companion’s fast healing increases by +1 per 3 Hit Dice.

^{Source: Expanded Spheres: Baron's Lost Apocrypha}

Prerequisites: Conjuration Sphere (Link, Otherworldly Audience, Spell Conduit x2, Spell-Linked Companion), caster level 15th.

You may use Ability Channel, Link, Spell Conduit, Spell Channel, and Spell-Linked Companion abilities through your companion at any distance (even across planar boundaries) and without line of sight or effect.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Channel Companion), caster level 10th.

You may spend 2 additional spell points to summon a companion such that it appears possessing a creature within range of your summon. This functions as if the companion were summoned into you, save that it is summoned into the creature of your choice. The possessed creature is allowed a Will save against your Conjuration sphere DC to prevent possession. On a successful saving throw, your companion is not summoned.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Natural Aspect (form) (fast healing option)), caster level 10th.

Your companion’s fast healing becomes regeneration instead. Your companion is not dismissed if reduced to or below 0 hit points, nor are effects that trigger when the companion is reduced to 0 hit points (such as Explosive Companion) triggered, unless this regeneration is suppressed.

This regeneration is overcome by two of the following damage types of your choice: acid, bludgeoning, cold, electricity, fire, negative energy, piercing, positive energy, or slashing. You cannot select a damage type that your companion possesses resistance or immunity to from a permanent ability, such as a (form) or (type) talent.

Should your companion later gain resistance or immunity to the selected damage type from a permanent ability, you must select a new damage type.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Altered Size (form)).

You may grant your companion the swarm subtype, with constituent members of Tiny size. Your companion’s swarm damage is 1d6 + 1d6 per 3 Hit Dice. At caster level 10th, you can reduce the swarm to Diminutive and at caster level 15th to Fine. The swarm possesses a hive mind with the mental abilities of the companion, so it may be targeted with mind affecting effects unless possessing another ability that would prevent it. The swarm loses all natural attacks, but counts its swarm damage as a natural attack for abilities that modify a natural attack, such as the poison option of the Monstrous Attacks (form) talent.

This talent cannot be applied to a companion with the Troop Companion (form) talent.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere.

You may grant your companion the troop subtype, with constituent members of a Small or Medium size. Your companion’s troop damage is 1d6 + 1d6 per 3 Hit Dice with an enhancement bonus, reach, and threatened area per the companion’s attacks (thus a companion with the Battle Creature (form) talent summoned with a reach weapon threatens as a creature of the individual’s size with a reach weapon). The troop gains no benefit from additional natural attacks, but if it possesses at least one natural attack may count its troop damage as a natural attack for abilities that modify a natural attack, such as the poison option of the Monstrous Attacks (form) talent. The companion still counts as a single creature for the purpose of being targeted by mind affecting effects.

This talent cannot be applied to a companion with the Swarm Companion (form) talent or with a size other than Medium or Small.

Prerequisites: Conjuration sphere (Camouflaged Companion (form)), caster level 10th.

Your companion may use the Stealth skill to hide even while observed.