Does Feat: Noble Scion (Thrune) allow you to then take Feat: Improved Familiar?

[Attrition]

Quick question - does Feat: Noble Scion (Thrune) allow a player to then take Feat: Improved Familiar? (relevant text below)

Thanks for any help!

Noble Scion (Local)

You are a member of a proud Chelaxian noble family.

Prerequisites: Cheliax affinity, member of Chelish noble house.

Benefit: You gain benefits based on the noble house to which you belong.

Thrune: You gain Infernal as a bonus language. In addition, at 9th level you may bind to yourself an imp servitor in a ritual that takes 7 days. Your imp servitor grants and possesses all the benefits and abilities of a 1st-level wizard’s familiar.

Improved Familiar

This feat allows you to acquire a powerful familiar, but only when you could normally acquire a new familiar.

Prerequisites: Ability to acquire a new familiar, compatible alignment, sufficiently high level (see below)

[DemonicEgo]

I would say no, because you don't have the ability to gain a NEW familiar, as this imp "familiar" only "grants and possesses all the benefits and abilities of a 1st-level wizard's familiar". Therefore, you don't actually have a familiar to begin with.

[Michael Loy]

Regardless, it's per a 1st level wizard. First level wizards can't take Improved Familiar, due to the level requirement in that feat's prerequisites.

[Gilfalas]

No, because your gaining an 'imp servitor' not a familiar. It clearly says it has the stats and abilities of a 1st level wizards familiar but never says you gaining a familiar.

In fact your binding to it, not it to you. It never says it levels up nor that it becomes your familiar or that it grants you the Familiar class ability.

[blackbloodtroll]

If you have a familiar from eldritch heritage, does the imp replace the familiar, or is in addition? How does this feat interact with the Boon Companion feat?

[Attrition]

Well, first, it says "bind to yourself", so it is binding To You, not you to it.

Secondly, the wording states "grants and possesses all the benefits and abilities of a 1st-level wizard’s familiar", and I'd say that a benefit of the familiar is the "ability to acquire a new familiar" (though this sounds kinda rule-lawyering to me one way, and then makes sense another - I'm kinda new to this game system and its quirks).

As for the level requirement, it is separate from your familiar's level or potential level - all that is determined is whether you have X levels of Arcane spellcasting (for the appropriate familiar).

(And Blackbloodtroll - I would assume it would be in addition. As for Boon Companion, it would then calculate the abilities of the imp as a 5th-level (1+4) wizard’s familiar. No worries about it being a higher level than your character level since you receive the imp at 9th level.)

[Alitan]

...all the abilities of a 1st level wizard's familiar.

Not, 'advances from the powers of a 1st level wizard's familiar.'

It's a static boon, not one that grows with you.

Further, unless Noble Scion/Thrune grants you caster levels, you don't qualify for the Improved Familiar feat (unless you're already a caster).

[blackbloodtroll]

This is something you can gain in addition to a familiar you already have?

[Attrition]

I guess the big question/interpretation is whether or not the Imp Servitor is considered a familiar or not.

I would think that the line "grants and possesses all the benefits and abilities of a 1st-level wizard’s familiar" would imply that it does, only with the limitation that it does not advance in abilities.

(And Blackbloodtroll - I don't see any reason you can't acquire this in addition to a familiar you already have.)

[blackbloodtroll]

Necromancy!
Has this got answered?
Does this count as a familiar for meeting any feat?
Such as:
Evolved Familiar, Boon Companion, Companion Figurine, or Adept Channel.

[blackbloodtroll]

Should I start a new thread, asking the same questions?