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Ranx was born to a Taldan woman named Elsin Delgado who had set sail with her husband intending to join the enlightened society of Hermia. Before they reached their destination, however, their ship was boarded by pirates. Elsin's husband was slain attempting to defend his wife and Elsin was taken prisoner. Elsin was initially protected from the crew to make her worth more when sold as a slave, but she was not a docile prisoner, and so the captain let the crew have their way with her to settle her down. She became pregnant by one of the pirates. It took many months for the ship to finish its marauding. It sailed for Bloodcove, where Elsin was to be sold as a slave, but the ship was sent off course by a storm and became shipwrecked in a desolate portion of the Mwangli Expanse. Elsin and others survived long enough for her to give birth to her son, but shortly thereafter, she and the others fell victim to various jungle dangers.

Her son was found alive by a tiger who had once been a druid's animal companion and had developed an affection for humans. She raised him and later another druid adopted her as his animal companion and began to school the human she was raising. He named him Rankx and taught him spell casting and other secrets of the jungle. When he came of age, a tiger known to his adopted mother was killed by hunters, leaving a female cub. Rankx returned the favor and adopted the cub as his animal companion. He decided it was time for him to interact with others of his kind, so he traveled to various Mwangli Expanse cities near the Sodden Lands and eventually boarded the Jenivere as it made for Sargava.

Ranx is a strong, healthy man with mixed race features, with tan skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. He travels light in the company of Tara, his tiger animal companion who is not yet fully grown. His hide armor is made of crocodile hide. He wears clothing similar to those from the Inner Sea under his armor, trousers, boots, and a shirt, made for him by some Halfling weavers he helped with a problem with some wild predators hunting in their village area.

Nature Bond (Ex)
At 1st level, a druid forms a bond with nature. A Feral Child must form a close bond with an animal companion. A druid may begin play with any of the animals listed in Animal Choices. This animal is a loyal companion that accompanies the druid on her adventures.

Unlike normal animals of its kind, an animal companion's Hit Dice, abilities, skills, and feats advance as the druid advances in level. If a character receives an animal companion from more than one source, her effective druid levels stack for the purposes of determining the statistics and abilities of the companion. Most animal companions increase in size when their druid reaches 4th or 7th level, depending on the companion. If a druid releases her companion from service, she may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring 24 uninterrupted hours of prayer in the environment where the new companion typically lives. This ceremony can also replace an animal companion that has perished.

Animal Companion Big Cat (Tiger)

Nature Sense (Ex)
A druid gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks.

Wild Empathy (Ex)
A druid can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person. The druid rolls 1d20 and adds her druid level and her Charisma modifier to determine the wild empathy check result.
The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly.
To use wild empathy, the druid and the animal must be able to study each other, which means that they must be within 30 feet of one another under normal conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time.
A druid can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but she takes a –4 penalty on the check.

Eva
Big Cat (Tiger)
Level: 1
HD: 2
HP: 11
BAB: +1
CMB: +4
CMD: 15 (19 vs. trip)
Fort +4 Ref +6 Will +2
Size Medium;
Speed 40 ft.;
AC 14 Touch 13 FF 11 (Dex +3, +1 natural armor)
Attack bite +2 (1d6+1), 2 claws +2 (1d4+1)
Ability Scores Str 13, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 2, Wis 15, Cha 10;
Special Attacks rake (1d4+1)
A creature with this special attack gains extra natural attacks under certain conditions, typically when it grapples its foe. In addition to the options available to all grapplers, a monster with the rake ability gains two free claw attacks that it can use only against a grappled foe. The bonus and damage caused by these attacks is included in the creature’s description. A monster with the rake ability must begin its turn already grappling to use its rake—it can’t begin a grapple and rake in the same turn.
Special Qualities low-light vision, scent.
Feat: Agile Maneuver
Skills: Acrobatics +7, Swim +5
Link (Ex)
A druid can handle her animal companion as a free action, or push it as a move action, even if she doesn’t have any ranks in the Handle Animal skill. The druid gains a +4 circumstance bonus on all wild empathy checks and Handle Animal checks made regarding an animal companion.

Share Spells (Ex)
The druid may cast a spell with a target of “You” on her animal companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A druid may cast spells on her animal companion even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of the companion's type (animal). Spells cast in this way must come from a class that grants an animal companion. This ability does not allow the animal to share abilities that are not spells, even if they function like spells.

Feral Child (Druid Archetype)
The feral child is an archetype of the druid class, available to human druids.

Some youths, abandoned in the wilderness and then raised by animals, are so connected with their adoptive home and family that they become feral. Suspicious of civilized society, these foundlings often choose allegiance to the wild over their human forebears.

Class Skills
A feral child adds Acrobatics to her list of class skills and removes Fly and Profession from her list of class skills.

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies
A feral child loses proficiency with the scimitar, scythe, and sickle and with shields.

Illiteracy
At 1st level, a feral child is unable to read and write, though she may learn by taking 1 rank of Linguistics. She does not gain Druidic as a free language and cannot select Sylvan as a bonus language.

Improved Unarmed Strike
At 1st level, a feral child gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat.

Beast Family (Ex)
At 1st level, a feral child may choose one specific type of animal as the type that raised her. She gains a +2 circumstance bonus on Handle Animal and wild empathy checks with animals of that type, and she can communicate with them as if using a continual speak with animals spell-like ability, but this ability is non-magical.

Nature Bond (Ex)
At 1st level, a feral child must select an animal companion as her nature bond.

Level 1: Athletic
You get a +2 bonus on Climb and Swim skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.

Level 1 Bonus: Animal Affinity
You get a +2 bonus on all Handle Animal and Ride skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.

Level 1 Feral Child Bonus: Improved Unarmed Strike
You are considered to be armed even when unarmed—you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you attack foes while unarmed. Your unarmed strikes can deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your choice.

Boarded in the Mwangi Expanse: You boarded the Jenivere in the Mwangi Expanse, where you’ve lived or recently traveled through. You harbor no illusions regarding the deadliness of the jungles, the creatures that inhabit it, or the peoples that make their home therein. You gain Polyglot as a bonus language and receive a +1 trait bonus on all Knowledge (nature) checks regarding the jungle.

Devotee of the Green (Faith)
Your faith in the natural world or one of the gods of nature makes it easy for you to pick up on related concepts.
Benefits: You gain a +1 trait bonus on Knowledge (geography) and Knowledge (nature) checks, and one of these skills (your choice) is always a class skill for you.

Beast Bond (Social)
You share a close bond with animals.
Benefits: You gain a +1 bonus on Handle Animal checks and Ride checks. One of these skills (your choice) is always a class skill for you.

Defoliant This milky fluid can be mixed with water to quickly kill light and medium vegetation. One flask of defoliant kills light brush and small trees in 50 5-foot squares. Light vegetation (anything but trees) dies within 1 hour and can be cleared at a rate of 10 minutes per 5-foot square (representing uprooting dead plants and breaking stumps into gravel-sized pieces), leaving barren ground. Medium vegetation (anything but massive trees) dies in 2 hours and can be cleared at a rate of 1 hour per 5-foot square. Massive trees can usually survive a single dose of defoliant, and using defoliant doesn't make clearing them any easier. Defoliant can be used as a splash weapon against plant creatures. A direct hit with the undiluted fluid deals 1d6 hit points of damage, 1 point of Strength damage, and 1 point of Constitution damage (Fortitude DC 20 negates the Strength and Constitution damage); plant creatures within 5 feet of the target take 1 hit point of damage.

Acid Flask You can throw a flask of acid as a splash weapon with a range increment of 10 feet. A direct hit deals 1d6 points of acid damage. Every creature within 5 feet of the point where the acid hits takes 1 point of acid damage from the splash.

Alkali Flask This flask of caustic liquid reacts with an ooze's natural acids. You can throw an alkali flask as a splash weapon with a range increment of 10 feet. Against non-ooze creatures, an alkali flask functions as a normal flask of acid. Against oozes and other acid-based creatures, the alkali flask inflicts double damage.

Current character is a 15 point build, spent as follows:
Str 14 cost = 5
Dex 12 cost = 2
Con = 12 cost = 2
Int = 13 cost = 3
Wis = 13 cost = 3 +2 racial modifier (human) = Wis 15
Cha = 10 cost = 0
Total cost: 15

Other build requirements were:
> 15 Point Buy
> Races from Advanced Race Guide are allowed
> Classes from any Paizo source are allowed, but no summoner archetypes
> Max gold and HP for your character's class
[This was 120 gp for the Druid Class.]
> An evil alignment is allowed...if your character can play nicely with others.
> 2 Traits, 1 Campaign Trait
> Paizo sources only

As the campaign this character was designed to play has apparently stalled before recruitment was completed, I'm submitting the same character to a different campaign of the same AP.

It has a 20 point build, so the ability values will increase as follows:

Con -> 13 Cost +1
Wis -> 14 Cost +2
Cha -> 12 Cost +2
Starting wealth is flat 150 gp, which means the character will have an extra 20 gp to spend or bank.
The allowed sources are more constrained, but Ranx is from the Core Race/Class list, with no 3rd party materials.