1001 Summoner concepts


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Let's have some character concepts for the Summoner/Eidolon!

In order to keep things readable, lets try to keep the descriptions simple and concise. No five paragraph background stories please... Well, unless its absolutely necessary for the concept that is.

Here's a few to start.

1: An aristocratic Summoner traveling the world, his Eidolon takes the form of a butler/manservant. Skilled (Proffesion butler) is a must.

2: A Summoner who wanted to be a Bard but doesn't have the knack for bardic magic, instead picking up summoning. He has a few ranks in Perform. His Eidolon acts as the singer/dancer/muse - pick whichever fits your concept.

3: A savage Summoner who beleives the Eidolon is a spirit/god and he serves it rather than the other way round. A "nature-y" type eidolon probably works best here.

4: A scholar who makes short term contracts with beings from beyond. i.e. a contract is one level and every time he levels he makes a contract with a new being (Eidolon changes). Might work best with the Evolutionist archtype.

5: An "everyman" Summoner who came into his powers(and eidolon) by accident and is slightly freaked out by it. A few Profession/Craft ranks for his humble beginnings. His eidolon is an eager to please genie like being. Think "I dream of jeannie".

6: Nervous, shy and easily bullied, this summoners eidolon is his repressed desires and rage. It looks like a beefier, angrier version of himself.


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7: A young boy that travels the world summoning monsters to fight his battles for him. Every time he sees a new monsters he studies it and tries to summon it himself in order to have it fight for him. His eidolon is his favorite summon though, as a small, yellow, mouse like creature that has powerful electric attacks. As a quirk this young boy tends to avoid eye contact with anybody and dislikes tall grass.

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8. A gnomish inventor with his clanking, steam-powered, automaton.

9. A mad doctor with a murderous abomination stitched together from creature parts.

10. A seafaring guide with a great leviathan swimming along side his ship.


11. A devotee of Besmara that everyone often mistakes for a cultist of Dagon because he focuses on the monster and strife aspects of her portfolio. His eidolon is a small version of reaper/leviathan that will get bigger with time.

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12. Born minutes behind your stillborn twin, you have always felt their presence, although your parents thought you mad. Now you have learned to call forth your 'dead' twin, in a body manifested from spiritual energies.

13. A parent was touched by something called a 'chaos beast' that caused their form to nearly fall apart into a mass of tentacles and sensory organs and malformed limbs. Even decades after the cure, they claimed to still feel the 'thousand young of Nyarlatothep' wailing within them, having once tasted freedom. You inherited this sensation, and have learned to unleash the 'thousand young' in many forms, through your summoning abilities.


14. A very shy boy/girl, giving life to his/her imaginary friend.

15. A superhero wearing an invincibile armor/transforming into battle form to defeat evil (Synthetist).

16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)


Bardess wrote:
16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)

So, a boy living his dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers? ;)

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Bearded Ben wrote:
Bardess wrote:
16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)
So, a boy living his dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers? ;)

That's exactly how I read it. Go boy, with your magic girl ambitions!


Set wrote:
Bearded Ben wrote:
Bardess wrote:
16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)
So, a boy living his dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers? ;)

That's exactly how I read it. Go boy, with your magic girl ambitions!

And, as one would expect, there's already a manga/anime with a similar plot.


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Bearded Ben wrote:

Set wrote:

Bearded Ben wrote:
Bardess wrote:
16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)
So, a boy living his dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers? ;)
That's exactly how I read it. Go boy, with your magic girl ambitions!

And, as one would expect, there's already a manga/anime with a similar plot.

Didn't Michael Jackson already accomplish this feat?


Bearded Ben wrote:
Set wrote:
Bearded Ben wrote:
Bardess wrote:
16. A girl living her dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers... Or a boy living the same dream... (Synthetist again)
So, a boy living his dream to become soon a beautiful woman with magic powers? ;)

That's exactly how I read it. Go boy, with your magic girl ambitions!

And, as one would expect, there's already a manga/anime with a similar plot.

More than one... And yes, you read it correctly ;)

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17. A lizard folk summoner who wanted to have a human at her service...


18. A religiously motivated summoner who failed in his priestly studies and now instead has a "angel" eidolon which heals people, and he himself poses as it's "servant".


19. Fate / Stay Night - A mage who has summoned the spirit of a legendary hero (or a copy of it) to guard him and fight for him.


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20. Charlie's Angels - a fat, lazy Halfling Broodmaster Summoner who is waited on hand and foot by his eight lovely Eidolon servants.


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21. HENSHIN! - A wandering youth is possessed by the spirit of JUSTICE! Summoning up an insect-like suit of armor, he battles tyranny and injustice with amazing martial arts and explosive kicks. Flowing red scarf is optional, but highly recommended.


That's my #15...
22. O Romeo! A boy/girl giving life to his/her ideal partner from imagination...

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23. MST3K- A poor man left alone marooned with only a bunch of trashy novels and scry-glass movies "creates" some wise-cracking golems to keep him company

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24. The Darkness (Master Summoner) - this frightened young girl has clearly been the witness of too many horrible things. She keeps her small Eidolon close to her, especially in the dark, because that is when the Others will come. But when the Darkness grows too strong, the Eidolon disappears and the Darklings strike.

24. Alternately, the small Eidolon is a Darkling and he is constantly taunting and bullying the girl into summoning his brethren. And when she finally does, he merges with them to revel in the slaughter

25. Closer to the inspiration (Jackie Estacado) : a young man who discovered on his coming-of-age day that he had inherited a dark and terrible power. The small Eidolon is still a Darkling, but he has no need to tempt the man into summoning his brethren.


27. Wrecked by guilt over an accidental death, a Summoner unwittingly creates his own tormentor to forever remind him. This Eidolon will protect him so he may somehow right his wrong.


28. The universe is a machination of many cogs and gears to you. It seems so simple to put it altogether and give it a divine spark. The eidolon takes the form of an automaton of gears and sheets of metal.


29. A legless Gnome summons a mechanical dog to ride around, as he can't walk.


30. A young girl, possessed by a pair of powerful spirits that keep each other in balance - one good, one evil. When these spirits manifest, the girl's personality is subsumed - but which one will appear? (Wild Flower from Jade Empire as a Synthesist Summoner)

31. An apprentice wizard makes a mistake with a summoning and binds a minor outsider to his own soul. As he grows more powerful, so does it.

32. A child's parents make a deal with a powerful outsider to watch over and protect their unborn child. When he's born, a small outsider arrives to watch over him, forming a bond as they age together.

33. Through a little-known ritual, a follower of a dark god has learned to feed the life force of his enemies to a pet. As it devours more and more souls, the beasts's power increases until it's no longer a creature of this world.


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Golarion Goblin wrote:
21. HENSHIN! - A wandering youth is possessed by the spirit of JUSTICE! Summoning up an insect-like suit of armor, he battles tyranny and injustice with amazing martial arts and explosive kicks. Flowing red scarf is optional, but highly recommended.

viewtiful, just viewtiful

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VRMH wrote:
27. Wrecked by guilt over an accidental death, a Summoner unwittingly creates his own tormentor to forever remind him. This Eidolon will protect him so he may somehow right his wrong.

PyramidHead Eidolon would be scary to see.....or perhaps silent hill is actually a gaint rogue Eidolon bound to the land that manifests when it detects large amounts of sin and guilt from an individual and forms its own mini-brood Eidolons to torment/redeem the person who enters

....Im a Genius, here is your campaign seed. Perhaps we can make this work when Mythic rules come out


+5 Toaster wrote:
Golarion Goblin wrote:
21. HENSHIN! - A wandering youth is possessed by the spirit of JUSTICE! Summoning up an insect-like suit of armor, he battles tyranny and injustice with amazing martial arts and explosive kicks. Flowing red scarf is optional, but highly recommended.
viewtiful, just viewtiful

Very close. Kamen Rider, which is what Viewtiful Joe is parodying/homaging.

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Golarion Goblin wrote:
+5 Toaster wrote:
Golarion Goblin wrote:
21. HENSHIN! - A wandering youth is possessed by the spirit of JUSTICE! Summoning up an insect-like suit of armor, he battles tyranny and injustice with amazing martial arts and explosive kicks. Flowing red scarf is optional, but highly recommended.
viewtiful, just viewtiful
Very close. Kamen Rider, which is what Viewtiful Joe is parodying/homaging.

Rider Kick!!!


Golarion Goblin wrote:
+5 Toaster wrote:
Golarion Goblin wrote:
21. HENSHIN! - A wandering youth is possessed by the spirit of JUSTICE! Summoning up an insect-like suit of armor, he battles tyranny and injustice with amazing martial arts and explosive kicks. Flowing red scarf is optional, but highly recommended.
viewtiful, just viewtiful
Very close. Kamen Rider, which is what Viewtiful Joe is parodying/homaging.

but viewtiful joe will always be closer to my heart. (Goes to closet, and lights candles around GameCube shaped shrine.)

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34: A lonely time traveler who picks up various 'companions' and periodically replaces them. Sometimes has a brood.
35: 'Parent' whose eidolon is their dead or non-existent child.
36: 'Muse' to an extra planer being.


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37. There always was a monster under the bed. Then one day, it came out and we've been best friends ever since.


VRMH wrote:
37. There always was a monster under the bed. Then one day, it came out and we've been best friends ever since.

I heart this.


38. After spending a brief time technically dead, the summoner comes back with his/her soul still bound to the devil/angel their soul was a part of in the afterlife.

and there were 2 24s but no 26 back a ways...


39. Revisit a classic....do the Dr. Jeckyl/ Mr.Hyde thing as either a synthesist or a regular summoner


40. Or how about "WE ARE LEGION..." as a broodmaster.


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Oh! Oh! One more, and this one fits nicely.... Do Aahz and Skeeve from Myth Adventures! Makes sense that Aahz would be the eidolon and "cut off" from his magic, he then spends his time instructing his new pupil in the form of Skeeve as they share myriad adventures together.....


42. I don't care you're the ghost of Christmas Present! Christmas has come and gone, I'm a reformed man... shouldn't you go haunt someone else by now?


43. (In soviet russia,) Your character's Eidolon is YOU!


44. Your Eidolon takes the form of a 'Forum Troll' who follows you around and tells you that 'Technically by RAW, you shouldnt be able to do whatever it is you're doing"


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45. Your eidolon takes the form of a small boy in an orange hoodie pulled tight around his face. He dies often and his name starts with a K. Your character is often vociferously apalled at his frequent daily deaths.


46. Your summoner is catfolk and your eidolon is a giant hairball.
47. Your master summoner is catfolk and your eidolons are many small hairballs.


48. Your eidolon looks like a beholder, because honestly, without them the game just doesnt feel right...


49. Starts out as a facehugger, when summoned appears to arrive like a chest burster, and ends up being a hive queen.


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50. the eidolon is a small orange fish with long whiskers, that just flops around a lot. After you have enough evolution points, it changes into a giant blue rage serpent and kills everything.


51. Falcor!


52. A small white monkey that wears bright red galoshes and speaks and occasionally sings in spanish, Named "boots."


53. A young boy magician carries around his "sister", a tall mechanical puppet with sharp claws


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These are great! Keep them coming guys.

54. A small female Summoner (either young or a gnome/halfling) whose eidolon is a large humanoid in strange bulbous headed armour. One of its hands is like a large drill. It is very docile except when she seems threatened, at which point even she has trouble keeping it in check.


55. Your Eidolon is the most rude, crude and obscene creature imaginable. Its antics leave you permanently in stitches (and at times literally so, alas) but you cannot be run out of town: "It wasn't me!"


56. Ga-rei! The eidolon is a family legacy transmitted from parent to child in your family of exorcist summoners...

57. The Man with a Thousand Faces! You're the ultimate transformist, a Synthetist/Evolutionist who can become anyone or anything. The archetypes don't stack? Who cares?

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Natan Linggod 972 wrote:
54. A small female Summoner (either young or a gnome/halfling) whose eidolon is a large humanoid in strange bulbous headed armour. One of its hands is like a large drill. It is very docile except when she seems threatened, at which point even she has trouble keeping it in check.

Ooh, good one, you evil person!

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