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Just as a side note, there's a bit of cheese and artistic license with this concept, so there's the fair warning.
A friend of mine is planning on DMing a god campaign, where each character finds out he/she is the fledgling avatar for one of Golarion's pantheon, and that they are destined to bring back their patron into workings of reality.
I chose to work with Gorum as my patron, yet I wanted to do something other than just give him a bunch of levels in a martial class and call it a day. With that in mind, I decided to look at some of the other classes for a fit, and while any combat-oriented class can find a place with the Lord in Iron, I've decided to go with Cavalier 4/ Druid 16.
I chose the class combination for a rather standard take on nature and animal companions -- in the wild, every creature is in a constant struggle, conflict, and battle to survive and live on to the next day, so why wouldn't a druid find something in common with Gorum to reflect upon and revere?
As for the mechanics, I was hoping to take advantage of the Horse Master and Boon Companion feats to have two animal companions with abilities measured at my character level by 7th level. These two war-beasts would be using the Allosaurus AC stat-blocks, while modeled in a sense to resemble one of Gorum's divine servants called Saint Fang.
As for feats, the only ones I've set in stone so far are Boon Companion at 5th and Horse Lord at 7th.
There are few ways I can go with this, considering I still have a good 8-9 feats (not to mention the feats of the companions) to work with. I want to say Power Attack / Furious Focus with a greatsword, and looking for ways to increase my attack bonus, but I'm not sure.
Suggestions? Any critique or suggestions for the concept itself are welcome as well.
Thanks!
EDIT: Now that's funny, looks like Gorum has druids in his service as priests. So much for it being a crazy idea...
Dotting for later.
Well, it is between you and your GM, but this seems VERY unusual to me. While Gorum does have a few battle druids serving him, but this would seem to be a problem...
...and the faithful garb themselves in metal armor whenever possible to emulate their lord. No matter how poor, a worshiper of Gorum will grab metal armor at the earliest opportunity...
I would think this even more important for an avatar of Gorum. But it would really play havoc with a druid. Gorumites are VERY focused on using worked metal, including weapons, too.
I found this in Gods and Magic (3.5).
Clerics and druids (of Gorum) may prepare rage as a 3rd-level spell and iron body as an 8th-level spell. Clerics may prepare heat metal as a 3rd-level spell. Druids are forbidden from using the rusting grasp spell. Druids can wear metal armor, though they cannot cast spells while wearing it, nor does it meld with them when they use wild shape; druids interested in metal armor acquire a set for a specific beastform and have allies or slaves put it on them when it is time to fight.
Don't know if this helps you, but I thought you would like to know.