Animal Menagerie Build, is that legal?

[Anger Nogar]

A friend of mine is bringing an animal companionS focused build and I was wondering on the legality of all those effective druid level stacking.

Here is the deal:

1. Human Standard Bearer Cavalier 1 VMC Cleric, Eye for Talent Racial Trait, Nature Soul Feat.
2. Standard Bearer Cavalier 2
3. Standard Bearer Cavalier 3
4. Standard Bearer Cavalier 4: Eye for Talent retrained to Human Bonus Feat: Animal Ally
(Effective Druid Animal Companion Level: 1)
5. Packmaster Hunter 1, Huntmaster Feat
(EDACL: 3, can split to multiple companions)
6. Standard Bearer Cavalier 5: Mount
(EDACL: 9)
7-15. Evangelist of Erastil 1-9, VMC Domain - Chivalry Inquisition
Final EDACL: 15 (Inquisition) + 12 (Animal Ally) + 5 (Cavalier) + 10 (Packmaster 1-Evangelist 9) + 1 (Huntmaster)

Or in other words this gives him a 11 HD mount and 2x12 HD beatsticks with outflank, +4 enhancement to strength, teamwork feats, etc. and the ability to call a third one once per day with his divine boon.

Is this RAW legal (if a bit cheesy)? Animal Ally seems to explicitly imply that it stacks with animal companion or mount features taken AFTER the feat.

[Sangerine]

Nope.

Animal Ally
He just gets an effective level boost to his animal companion, not the mount, as per the feat. Still has the mount class feature, but no mount from it.

Which sucks when he takes Huntmaster, as it only applies to horses for him, as per the clause regarding the mount feature.

Chivalry Inquisition isn't a domain, it's an inquisition. No go for taking it up via Cleric VMC.

Aligned class kicks in at Evang 2, so he's not getting 9 from it. He gets 8.

Basically, he's getting a boost to horses, and can spread out (12 Animal Ally) + (5 cavalier) + (9 packmaster1+Evang8) = 26 HD.

A single horse can count as 1 HD higher. (He doesn't have the animal companion class feature. He has pack bond, and mount. Only the mount clause in Huntmaster applies.)

For teamwork feats and such.
PackMaster

Spoiler:

A packmaster's precise companion, woodland stride, and teamwork feats apply to only one of her animal companions at a time. (For example, a packmaster can apply precise companion to one companion, woodland stride to another, and a given teamwork feat to a third, but cannot apply any of those to two animal companions at once.) As a swift action, she can change which companion gains any or all of these benefits.

Gotta choose which companion gets what benefit.

For stat bonuses, he retrained his eye-for-talent ability out at 4. So the only companions with that stat boost are those he had prior (IE; none. Since he gets his cavalier mount at 5.)

Cheesy, yes. RAW? Nope.

(Also, your math is really off in your own HD calculations.
15+12+5+10+1=43.
11+(2*12)=35.)

Final Edit/Note: I have a player like this. Toss the CRB at your player for me. I'll bribe you with Doritos or something.

[kyrt-ryder]

In other words, he came up with a cool build that the rules don't quite support.