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Just remember that at low levels, your pseudodragon familiar is an exceptionally stupid example of it's kind since the master's level determines it's Int regardless of what it normally might be.
Not really. The bestiary lists the Pseudodragon as INT 10. At the time you can take a Pseudodragon as an Improved Familiar (7th), a familiar's INT is 9. So at worst it's slightly dimmer than the average, not exceptionally stupid. And its INT will climb past normal once its master gets a few levels.
What about the psychopomp Nosoi? A four winged little bird with a funeral mask that that acts as one of many clerks in the bureaucracy of the afterlife? Now that is just adorable.
It melds extremely well with a Neutral Wizard who has a lot of paperwork lying around. Given its ability to use medium sized writing tools, its +2 bonus to the wizard's scribe check, and its ranks in Profession(Scribe), you would have a tough case to make as to why it could not use the Master's skills in UMD to cast scrolls.
It also seems like an unparallelled scout. I mean it flies, has invisibility AT WILL, and has spirit sense to 60 ft, which is like blind sight but it can also differentiate between alive or undead. That is all kinds of useful!
So we have a small bird that can fly ahead with invisibility, see anything that is hiding, and cast scrolls at just the right time and place with near impunity. Add to that its Fascinate that also works with Undead. Did I also mention that it is adorable?
http://paizo.com/image/content/CarrionCrown/PZO9047-Nosoi.jpg
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