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Is there anything in Pathfinder like the Retain Essence ability from the v3.5 Artificer? Any kind of mechanic/feat/ability/etc?

I have a level 13 Wizard who's focused on creating clockwork constructs, and he's starting the game with three Clockwork Soldiers and three Clockwork Servants. I know for simplicity's sake some GM's will have summoned creatures/pets/familiars/constructs/etc. act on their owner's turn, but do they still have their own full turn each, or do I have to spend some kind of action to command each of them? All of them at once? How's this work?

This may be a stupid question, but I just need some clarification. I've made a Scrollmaster/Scroll Scholar(eventually Cyphermage), and I'm not entirely sure what level to scribe my scrolls at. Is there any point to making a CL 5 Scroll of Burning Hands to use as a Scroll Blade? Is it still just going to act as a masterwork short sword with 1 hit point and 0 hardness? Should I just stick with CL 1 scrolls for first level spells that are going to be used as Blades?

Secondly: Is there any point to trying to make the scrolls out of a material with a higher hardness, like Darkleaf Cloth or something like it? The RAW says that "Each successful hit by the scroll blade reduces its hit points by 1; this damage cannot be repaired, but does not affect casting from the scroll. When its hit points reach 0, the scroll is destroyed." That first bit doesn't actually say that the scroll takes 1 point of damage, it just says the hit reduces its hit points by 1, so does hardness even apply in this case? But the second part says that it IS damage...

Any help would be great!

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I need someone to explain how this works. I have a 1st level Shadowcaster Conjurer who took the Versatile Summon Monster feat from Monster Summoner's Handbook, and selected the Dark Creature and the Primordial Creature templates. I know that the only creatures that you can apply templates to are the ones with the asterisk on the Summon Monster list, but could I apply both the Dark AND Primordial templates to a creature I'm summoning? Can you apply multiple templates to summoned monsters? Is that a thing? Do I need a feat to do it? Or can I just do it?

I'm looking for advice on how this would work. This character that l'm playing is Lawful Evil(of the "I'll kill people to keep the stability" variety) in a Good/Neutral (not Neutral Good) campaign. It's a long campaign and is pretty much a sandbox game. My character has plans to found his own kingdom, and he would like to do so with a Queen by his side. The NPC that he's currently enamored with though is a Neutral Good wizard, enchantment spec. While this screams role-play opportunity, how would it work mechanically? I have no intention of changing alignments, and I doubt she does either, so how would I take her as a cohort? I'll be taking the Leadership feat next level, at 7th. I feel like there wouldn't be much of a conflict of interest, alignment-wise, since he does respect her for her power over others, considers her a peer, and would of course never betray her.

As a side note, he does harbor secret feelings of suspicion that she might have enchanted him somehow to fall in love with her, but so far Detect Magic and spells of the like have shown nothing.

After a long hiatus, I've decided to start playing with the PFS again. I have two registered characters, one Human Conjurer (level 3) and one Aasimar Cleric (level 1). My issue is that I don't have the character or chronicle sheets anymore; I'm thinking I must have lost them when I moved. I figured for the Aasimar, since he's level 1, I can just remake him, but what do I do about the Conjurer? Am I SOL regarding him?

This doesn't just apply to Smart Armor, though that's what my request has spawned from, but really all of the Tech Armors. Is there any benefits/penalties to wearing Smart Armor without it being "on"? What kind of benefits does it convey once it runs out of charges? Because the Expanded Form of the Smart Armor takes 1 charge/10 minutes, but the Compound Form ALSO takes 1 charge/10 minutes. So I'm a bit confused as to what happens when there are no more charges. Does it lose all AC bonuses, DR, etc?

So the target restrictions on effect words always annoyed me. From a DM standpoint, I can understand why they exist, otherwise some wordspells would be a bit OP. I tried to balance this feat so that I could get what I want out of it.

Thoughts anyone?

Expanded Word
You have learned to use an effect word in new ways.
Prerequisites: Caster level 5th, Experimental Spellcaster
Benefit: Choose one effect word you know with one or more target restrictions. You may now use any target word you have the ability to use in conjunction with that effect word.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different effect word.

Does anyone know where akata come from? Do they come from the same world that the Silver Mount came from? Could they? Is there anything that says otherwise?

Is there any way to discover exactly how many charges an item has remaining, like from a wand or staff(namely Staff of the Magi)?

Any help would be great!

Hey all, I'm gonna start running RotR, AE this Saturday. I've read through the whole thing once already, but I wanted to read through it once again before Saturday. Doesn't look like I'm gonna have time to do that, so is there any plot/foreshadowing that I should keep in mind for at least Part 1?

Any help would be great! Thanks.

I'm going to try being careful about what I'm submitting, so as to not reveal anything...

In determining the price for "charges per day", the books don't say anything (as far as I can tell, for anything that has "charges per week", or "charges per month". How would I determine the price for that?

Also, in determining the price for adding in a spell that uses material components, the pricing lists are there, but what if the spell requires a material component (worth X gp) AND a focus (worth X gp)?