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Legally I think you can do this but I'm just checking.

Deinonychus (Druid Animal Companion) - Cha of 14

Human option Eye for Talent +2 Int or Cha, raise the other one once so Cha = 15+, or else wait for level 9 and raise each one point.
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Int at 3 lets the pet take any feat for which it is qualified, and with 15 Cha it qualifies for Flagbearer.

Just wondering. In the paladin section the line is: "...although more exotic mounts, such as a boar, camel, or dog are also suitable."
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Elephants were very popular and terrifying riding war animals in Asia and North Africa especially. Wolves are thematic. Tigers may be off for balance reasons. And how about...bear cavalry??
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I looked at additional resources but my search was inconclusive.

Thanks.

Build 1: the general

Race: Peri-Blooded Aasimar
Traits: Reactionary, Call for Help

S 15
D 16
C 14
I 10
W 10
C 15

1) Freebooter Ranger - Fey Foundling
2) Freebooter - Power Attack (bonus)
3) Bard - Combat Reflexes
4) Bard
5) Paladin - Flagbearer
6) Paladin
7) Paladin - Angelic Blood
8) Paladin
9) Paladin - Boon Companion
10) Mammoth Rider
11) Paladin - Angelic Wings
12) Paladin

I built this character to buff the party primarily, secondarily to tank, thirdly to protect others. Depending on the utility of Call for Help trait I can swap it out, and 5th level feat is open for adjustment as well. Probably riding an elephant or a megaloceros at higher levels. With Banner of the Ancient Kings, party members get morale bonus from Flagbearer +2/+2, and an untyped +1/+1 from Freebooter and +2/+2 competence from bardsong (banner lets me use as bard 6). If I'm tanking with full-defense, it's an additional +1/+1 trait bonus.

Build 2: the giant killer

Race: Halfling

S 5
D 17
C 14
I 12
W 14
C 16

1) Freebooter Ranger - Fey Foundling (or Flagbearer)
2) Flowing Monk - Weapon Finesse (bonus)
3) Freebooter - Power Attack (bonus), Dervish Dance
4) Paladin (of Sarenrae)
5) Paladin - Weapon Focus: Scimitar
6) Paladin
7) Paladin - Crusader's Flurry
8) Paladin
9) Paladin - Risky Striker
10) Mammoth Rider
11) Mammoth Rider - Boon Companion
12) Mammoth Rider

As you can see, I was thinking along similar lines here; this is more focused on tanking and doing damage and less on buffing (though it does buff a little).

Just wondering how it works...

It says it gives you a companion at character level -3 but that it stacks with whatever other class gives it to you if you take it later.

However, if we have ally = CL - 3 and then add levels of a class giving a companion, there are really two interpretations.

1) ally = (class levels not giving AC -3) + (class level of class giving a companion)

2) ally = (total character level - 3) + (levels of class giving you AC)
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Both are reasonable interpretations, but the second lets you stack more.

Sample character:

Fighter 2 / Paladin 4 with Nature Soul and Animal Ally feats. Not a problem, the companion is level 3. However, at the next level, the player chooses a mount. The character level is 7, and would have a horse, camel, etc at level 5, but you stack it with the other one you already had and it's now level 8 OR level 9 depending on which interpretation is used. This gets worse as you keep leveling in Paladin, leading to a pet that either stays one level above player level, or two, then three, then four, then five etc levels above player level.

I'm leaning toward the first interpretation, but I think I'd be OK with the second as well...

I apologize if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find anything definite on this question.
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I have a character with the Sylvan Wildblood and Razmiran Priest Archetypes (they can be taken together because they don't replace the same things of a base sorcerer.

I hit 3rd level with my character, and then I get Aid instead of Entangle (I would have gotten Entangle from Sylvan as a subset of Fey). I can't cast Aid at all until I go up another level and it's a pretty underwhelming spell anyway.

When I hit 4th level, I want to take the human Favored Class bonus to add a 1st level spell to my list of spells known (it's a level below the highest I can cast, which is 2).

Can I pick Entangle for my spell known? It's normally a Druid spell but I would have gotten it as a bonus for 3rd level so I'd argue it should be allowed me.

Since you can't get past 12 in PFS, I was wondering about classes giving you a companion that you might want to have at 5 or 6 and then either multiclass or prestige out of.

Especially I was wondering how that would work with something like a Paladin, whose mount changes its type to magical beast at 11. If I'm only a level 6 paladin but have both of the feats, does it still become a magical beast assuming I'm level 11 or 12?
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Also, in PFS, assuming I want to design a character-type like this, I am locked into Half-Orc race because all the ways to qualify for the feat Beast Rider as something else (half-elf, human, aasimar with scion of humanity, any other race with orc bloodline sorcerer) are disallowed, correct?

Thanks.