Any way to incorporate the Vahana template?


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The Vahana template, from Bestiary 5, is a template that enhances an animal by some divine intervention. However, due to its late publication, nothing has been done to incorporate it.

So... is there a cavalier, paladin, druid, ranger, hunter or another class archetype that grants that template to their companion? Has there been a spell that bestows it?


Doing searches on d20pfsrd and archives of Nethys brings up nothing other than the monster template itself. You'd need something fairly open-ended like the original leadership feat (don't accept weakened versions like monstrous companion) to have a chance of talking your GM into it.


As a DM, the template itself seems like a way to reward religious characters that go out of their way to do things for their deity. I don't mean like an Iomedaen cleric donating money to an orphanage and calling it a day. I mean like going WAY out of their way to do something that their deity would do if they themselves were mortal, or something akin.

The way I'd use it is if there's a table of experienced players who know how to make good characters and like 1 or 2 newer players that don't really know how to make viable characters and didn't want help creating it as a sort of buff to the new players.

My current table has just that too. There are 2 newer players, and 1 of them refused help on their clerix (or hasn't had a chance to get help). And at later levels he probably is going to fall way behind in terms of power level. I'm thinking as giving him a vahana to help level him out.

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