MY cleric is thinking of summoning a fire elemental with Lesser Planar Ally.
The rationale isn't crazy, Iomedae does have the Sun Domain...
But Saranrae has the fire domain...
Whatchya think? S'okay? Little touch and go..? Editors welcome to respond too.
Here's a last minute catch, the PC Cleric's actual Domians of Worship are Glory and War.
Modest bump
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Sure. Why not? Use the stats of a fire elemental, but make it lawful good and have it "blaze with the light of the sun" i.e. yellow-white (or, heck, blue-white) flames rather than red-orange ones. If that's not enough, slap the celestial template on it.
Hmm. If you want to go REALLY spiffy...
Step 1: take a normal fire elemental of the appropriate size.
Step 2: Apply the celestial template and give it a modest (50 or 60 foot) fly speed.
Step 3: Put a longsword of the appropriate size in its "hands"
Step 4: Describe it as being "a muscular, blazing humanoid, [of the appropriate size] clad in gleaming armor (you don't need to increase its AC; this is just what its natural armor looks like.) Its body seems to be made of solar fire and huge wings of trailing flame sprout from its back. A helm of gleaming armor sits on the creature's head, and its eyes blaze so brightly you can't bring yourself to look directly at its face. It speaks with a booming, authoritative voice, saying "[whatever you think it should say]!"
Step 5: Call it a "sunfire angel" and go. :)
If reading Pathfinder products has taught me anything, it's that one should never underestimate the impact of flavor text. The bugbear in the MM and the one in Classic Monsters Revisited are EXACTLY the same, stat-wise. But the one in the MM is a whole heck of a lot less scary.
If it needs a bit more oomph or tweaking, slap a searing light spell-like ability on the thing or similar. Those changes, combined, might bump its CR by 1. Nothing too extreme to worry about.
Edit: If you have Anger of Angels by Malhavoc Press, you can really go one cooler by having an Ophanim paladin of the appropriate level show up instead. If not, it's open content. Shouldn't be too hard to track down. (Ophanim are basically sentient, flying wheels of holy fire) If you're really interested, I can post stats for one, but honestly, the tweaked fire elemental should be all you need. They're CR 4 with 4 hit dice.
Edit 2: If you have the book of Hallowed Might (also by Malhavoc press) that has elemental angels in it. The fire angels are CR 5 and have 6 hit dice. One warning, though: they are NASTY CR monsters; they have an impressive array of spell-like abilities (most of them fire-based, but including some healing).
Edit 3: If none of this suits your needs, refine your request a bit and I'll take another swipe at it. I don't currently have a game going, so these calls for aid from other GMs/players are both fun and a way to keep my skills sharp for me. If you're asking as a player, see what your GM will go for.
Good ideas guys, thanks!