can you get your eidolon to use your social skills?

[ohako]

Let's say you're like The Ventriloquist (the Batman villain). You're a summoner, you're hiding behind or holding an eidolon, and here's what you've got

Advanced Player's Guide wrote:

Link (Ex): A summoner and his eidolon share a mental link allows for communication across any distance (as long as they are on the same plane). This communication is a free action, allowing the summoner to give orders to his eidolon at any time.

Okay, instant communication/orders across the dimension. Good for when you cast unfetter, I guess.

Can you tell your eidolon, as a free action, 'Say threat X to this guy, and menace him by shaking your fist thusly and stamping your foot in such-and-such manner'? Who rolls the Intimidate check, the summoner, or the eidolon?

Or, to put it another way

Let's sat that the link ability is one step up from a wizard's familiar's empathic link, such that emotion and language can be perfectly transmitted. Can an eidolon perfectly mimic that communication to others?

[BretI]

No.

However, when creating the Eidolon you do get to choose what some of it's class skills are. You could always choose to use one of those 4 chosen class skills to give them the Intimidate. Good way to Aid Another on some skills.

[Melkiador]

I'd say at best you could offer "aid another" through the link.

[Zhangar]

BretI wrote:

No.

However, when creating the Eidolon you do get to choose what some of it's class skills are. You could always choose to use one of those 4 chosen class skills to give them the Intimidate. Good way to Aid Another on some skills.

Also, just to keep in mind, the 1 point Skilled evolution gives an eidolon a +8 racial bonus on a skill check.