The improved familiar feat says you "may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each alignment axis".
But the entry for the Lyrakien says the spellcaster must be chaotic good.
Can my chaotic neutral magus have a lyrakien familiar?
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The improved familiar feat says you "may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each alignment axis".
But the entry for the Lyrakien says the spellcaster must be chaotic good.
Can my chaotic neutral magus have a lyrakien familiar?
Nope. The Improved Familiar feat has a specific list of familiars associated with it. You can select one of those even if you are one step away. The Lyrakien Azata (and other Bestiary 2 Improved Familiar choices) are more selective in who they will bond with.
The improved familiar feat says you "may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each alignment axis".
But the entry for the Lyrakien says the spellcaster must be chaotic good.
Can my chaotic neutral magus have a lyrakien familiar?
The master MUST be chaotic good. The lyrakien is a specific exception to the general rule. Also it's AOE attack damages anyone who isn't chaotic good.
Darn. I'm playing a character that want's to be a good and heroic person, but down deep inside he is just too jaded and generally disgusted with the nature of the world. I was going to play up the relationship between the two of them, emphasizing the lyrakien's role in keeping from him drifting over the edge into full blown evil.
Oh well. I'll figure something else out. Thanks for your help.
Hmm, what's the process for atonement to change alignment? Maybe I can do the same general thing, but play up the lyrakien's role in my character's tenuous grip on goodness.
See the Redenption or Temptation section under the Atonement spell. Your character could befriend a chaotic good cleric (or a cleric of a chaotic good deity, as most NPC clerics match their deity's alignment exactly) and then ask the Cleric to cast an Atonement spell to align your character with that deity's will, offering him the cost of the material component of the spell as a token of his sincerity. Then the Cleric casts the spell, and your character's alignment magically and definitively changes to chaotic good.
An alternative would be for your character to simply start behaving in a consistently chaotic good manner until you can convince your GM that your alignment has changed -- but that method could be slow and unsatisfying given the very subtle changes in behavior involved. The Atonement method has the advantage of being definitive in its results and not requiring as much in the way of a judgment call from your GM.
Well, I think I will need to go for option two.
It is a significant point in his back story that he actively blames the gods for what he sees as a cruel and capricious world.
Identifying quote "I would rather be damned to an eternity in all the hells of creation than ever bow in supplication before those petty tyrants again."