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In our adventuring party for Skulls and Shackles we have a cannibal witch… Anyway, I pointed out the cannibalism sub-domain to her for fun as I discovered it while skim reading and it provoked a little debate.

While it clearly states that the duration is based on ½ your CLERIC level, the profane bonus you receive and its increases per level do not specify a class (instead saying: At 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th level, this bonus increases by 1). Am I correct in assuming that if a class isn’t specified then the level is based on character level and not class level? This doesn’t feel like it is the intention of the power, however I may well be wrong and thought I’d check.

The neighbouring locality of Ustalev to Gastash (the Thassilonian realm of Sloth, associated with Necromancy) intrigues me. As someone currently running Rise of the Runelords and looking at Carrion Crown as a potential AP for the future I'm wondering if the necromantic backgrounds of these two nations are tied and whether there is any lore/adventures relating to this?

Obviously I can make stuff up, but I'm not keen on doing anything too dramatic that isn't enshrined in canon. Call it OCD, call it a desire for everything to be in its proper place, or call it a fear that subsequent products will be rendered invalid from my choices (all our games share a setting).

Ultimately I'm not adverse to spicing up my adventure paths with supplemental adventures. My current Rise of the Runelords campaign includes a lot of elements from the Year of the Risen Rune (which I am happy to alter as it has little overarching impact). So I was wondering, does anyone know of any published material that can link elements of the Runelord of Sloth into the Carrion Crown adventure path?

So I have acquired myself a Bronze Gryphon, go me! This is mostly by default as I am the only person left without any form of ability to fly and the only person with Ride. Sadly however, the reason I have ride is because I’m a Cavalier, which means I also have a horse. Now while I love my horse (who is indeed a killing machine at L10), frankly a Griffon is way more awesome even before we take the stat block into account. Also I have rarely been able to use my horse as we are playing Council of Thieves and this is almost entirely indoors (figurine would be very useful). Lastly, I find having two mounts thematically weak, who has two mount!?

Anyway, remembering that there was the Companion Figurine feat I rushed home to plan my next level to take the griffon as my mount and retire my mighty warhorse to pasture… only to find it wasn’t on the list of viable figurines.

I guess I’m asking for a work around that I can wave under the nose of my DM to justify this as a mount.

Factors:
• It needs to be as in-line with the RAW as it can be (as I have OCD about this)
• Leadership cannot be taken in this campaign as we deem it broken, so cohort is out (however Companion Figurine is the same investment, 1 feat)
• I am currently L10 (Cavalier 6, Pathfinder Chronicler 3, Battle Herald 1… yeah, I know), I do however have the Horse Master feat, which effects ‘mounts’ not simply horses

So, is this even possible? I’m thinking no, but on the off chance it is, hit me! If it isn’t possible, what advice can you give for the best and fairest way to justify it?

Lastly and what I am secretly hoping for is, is that as the Bronze Griffon is basically a creature with no odd abilities it was omitted from the Figurine Companion list as it require no special rules, but however be taken... tell me this is so and save me a lot of trouble :)