Sacrifical Figment Goat Familiar

[grindyelmo]

I read a lot about the mauler archetype being used with goats. I kind of like the idea to make the "normal" familiar more valuable and not just forgetting it completely or waiting to change it to a better one.

And here comes the figment archetype for the goat...now it auto-resurrects without any costs. Isn't it wonderful and very practical if you are for example suddenly short on sacrifices?
Just slit your goat’s throat as an offering to your god or spirit or demon and get it back for a next ritual after a full sleep.
What would you think he would get in return for this offer? A shaman for example couldn't commune with his spirit and would have to sleep again...so it would be a real sacrifice. What would a wizard get out of this?

Another question now is how damaged do you think the goat would become throughout this process? Maybe even killing itself from time to time or starting to disobey? Would a shaman get into trouble for that witch his spirit?

Thanks for the help and ideas!

[DeathlessOne]

Since a figment familiar is a creation of their master's mind and can't serve as a witch's familiar (which the shaman's hybrid class is partially based off of), I would argue that the spirit animal (essentially a familiar) can't have the figment archetype applied to it.

It would be counter-intuitive to have the spirit animal be the link between the Shaman and their divine powers, and that link is essentially a figment of their imagination.

But, as to your question. Slaying the familiar in such a manner wouldn't be a sacrifice of anything at all (except sanity). The loss of the familiar prevents preparing new spells, that's it. The figment 'respawns' when the caster reawakens, BEFORE the preparation of new spells begins.