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Thank You SOOOO Much!!
This helps a lot. With this info I've now named my princess:

Shahzadi Bahameen 'Abla Hargaithit al-Parishat

I hope we get more stuff for Qadira (and hopefully stuff from Kelesh itself!!!). Thank you for all the work you put into this, its great ^_^

Theoretically a 4th level Human Fighter with Dervish Dance and Martial Versatility (Dervish Dance)

Hello!

I'm making a character (a Keleshite Druid) and I decided to use the trait "Keleshite Princess". That got me to look around for the naming conventions for Keleshite Nobles. I found, in Qadira, Jewel of the East, that the naming convention for a noble goes as follows:

Members of the imperial family frequently bear a given name, followed by a form of their mother’s name, a name earned upon reaching adulthood, a name indicating which branch of the imperial family they’re from, and finally the family name al-Parishat.

So, it'd be something like this:
[Name] al-(of, belonging to)[Mother's Name] [Name earned upon reaching adulthood (a title? like goatslayer?)] [Name Indicating which branch of imperial family they belong to(like what?)] al-Parishat(of Nobility?)

Now I've made up a name for my princess:
Shahzadi al-Bahameena 'Abla Kalish al-Parishat

My question, which I hope you can help me with, is the "Name Indicating which branch of imperial family they belong to" I just put in "Kalish", which is the name of the current ruler of Kelesh, but I am unsure if this is correct. I tried looking around for full names of Keleshite nobility and came up blank, is there an example in a novel somewhere? Your help is much appreciated ^_^

"That one"? You only get the one animal companion, no matter how many classes/feats are contributing to your effective druid level....

I meant it to be two versions of the same animal, and to use whichever the Gm agrees to.

Sorcerer: Your effective druid level for this ability is equal to your sorcerer level – 3 (minimum 1st).

Feather Domain Druid: At 4th level, you gain the service of an animal companion. Your effective druid level for this animal companion is equal to your cleric level – 3.

Adding to Druid:
Sorcerer (1-3) min 1 = 1
Druid (4-3+4) = 5
1+5 = 6 and you are 7th so you don't quite get to max.

Adding to Sorcerer:
Sorcerer (1-3+4) min 1 = 2
Druid (4-3) min 1 = 1
2+1+3 = 5 so worse.

If I'm adding it to Druid, i'd get max, I don't know where you're getting that extra level. At 6th it'd be 1(sorcerer) 1(monk) and 4(druid).

Unfortunately since Boon Companion isn't written in terms of applying to a class there's no way for you to officially designate which class is receiving its benefits, so a dick GM can always zot you down two effective druid levels.

Frankly I don't think it's worth the hassle of explaining the situation to each GM you sit down with so they can make the call, even if you're sure they'll all call it your way.

Yeah, I guess I'll do that, maybe keep an extra sheet with the lower stats too, just in case. But I probably wouldn't be sending that one into battle, so there might be no point for that. Thank you ^_^

Animal companions stacking? Do you mean this?

Yes. this is exactly what I'm referring to ^_^

If you have an A/C from Sylvan only (hence at level-3), Boon Companion says

Boon Companion wrote:

The abilities of your animal companion or familiar are calculated as though your class were 4 levels higher, to a maximum effective druid level equal to your character level.

so your effective druid level would be that of a Sylvan sorcerer four levels ahead of you, i.e. (level-3)+4 = level+1 (capped at HD).

If you have an A/C from Sylvan and from a regular druid, it depends on which class you "apply" Boon Companion to. If you apply it to the druid, you get (druid+4)+(min(sylvan-3,1)) (still capped at HD, of course).

It shouldn't be ambiguous this way---it should just be the way James Risner described---but that's just how Boon Companion is worded. As it is, I would definitely worry about table variation.

Well that doesn't give me a lot of confidence. Do you think it'd be worth it to wait 'till 7th level and then "apply" it to my druid class? Even though its the same animal...

How it most beneficial?

S and D both have penalties.

Well, as I interpret it, S is 1, always since I only took one level of sorcerer and the minimum is 1, and druid is my druid level -3, on top of which I add boon companion. So at 6th character level (1S/4D/1M), by this interpretation it'd be 1S+1D+4=6 giving me "full" animal companion levels.

On the other hand, If Boon Companion has to be spent to counteract the "negative" levels that the sylvan bloodline gets me (sorcerer level -3 minimum 1) then it'd be (1S-3)+1D+4=3 at lv. 6, right? Or am I confusing myself?

You only have one companion and it needs to be compatible with both sylvan and druid lists.

You compute your sylvan value as S.
You compute your druid value as D.

(S+D+4) and cap at your hit dice.

I get that I only get one companion, I just wasn't sure how the negatives kick in with relation to boon companion, nor was I able to find an explanation for how to do so anywhere. The way you propose is the most beneficial for me, I just don't want to sit at a pfs table and have a gm tell me "no, your animal companion's level is lower than that".

If you don't want the headache, just use the standard fey bloodline and get +2 DC to compulsion spells.

Yeah, if I can't find a concrete answer for this, I might just do that.

Hello!

I'm making a Feyspeaker Duid/Scaled fist Monk that I'm thinking of adding Sorcerer to for those sweet, sweet Arcane spells (Mage Armor, Shield & Gravity bow). My question comes when I was looking to take the sylvan Wildblooded bloodline and couldn't figure out how the Animal Companion progression would work. My Druid has the Feather Domain, so she'll get the animal companion (if I don't go sorcerer) at 5th level and I was planning on taking boon companion to fill out my Animal Companion levels. If I take the sylvan bloodline though, I am able to get a companion at 3rd level AND take boon companion, to cash in early on that Animal Companion action. but here's my dilemma; the Sylvan bloodline gives me the companion at my sorcerer level -3 minimum 1, so when I take Boon Companion does that give me a Companion of lv. 2 (1-3+4) till I hit that 4th level of druid and start adding the second druid lv-3 progression? or does it not go into negatives at all (since i'm only dipping into Sorcerer) and just add levels to give me a full Animal Companion progression (1[sorcerer]+4-3[druid]+4[boon companion])? is the headache worth it? are there any other good bloodlines for a naturey based charisma character to take instead?

I have nothing. But if anyone would be kind/Awesome and give me anything I'd be super grateful. If there was anything I could do in exchange (play, gm, etc.) I would totally be up for it.