Here's what I got so far, emphasis mine.
Benefit: Pick any two templates from the following list (see Simple Summoning Templates below for details): aerial, aqueous, chthonic, dark, fiery, or primordial. When you summon one or more creatures that would normally be available with the celestial, entropic, fiendish, or resolute template using a summon monster spell (or an effect that mimics such a spell), you can instead apply one of the chosen templates to each creature. You can apply a different template to each creature you summon.
This template can be applied only to a non-outsider with none of the subtypes that follow...
Primordial creatures are magical precursors or echoes of creatures from the Material Plane. A primordial creature’s CR increases by 1 only if the base creature has 5 or more HD.
Rebuild Rules: Defensive Abilities gains DR as noted on the table below; SR gains SR equal to its new CR + 6; Speed gains a +10-ft. bonus to all speeds; Attacks the damage dice for one primary natural weapon increases as if the creature were one size larger (if the creature has more than one primary attack, the increased damage is applied to the first attack type it has from this list: bite, claw, slam, gore, talon, sting); Spell-Like Abilities gains spell-like abilities listed on the table below according to its Hit Dice (including all the spell-like abilities of lower-Hit Die primordial creatures), each available 1/day. The DCs of any saves against these abilities are equal to 10 + the primordial creature’s Charisma bonus + spell level.
Sorry for all the quotes, but finally here's my question. I have an evil summoner focused on using summon monster to summon only Devils/Demons/Daemons. Primordial template does not require anywhere in the template that it be a "non-outsider", but versatile monster feat says it can only be applied to creatures that would already have a fiendish or celestial template, so does summoning an evil outsider have it come with the fiendish template thus allowing me to add the primordial template (on top of evolved summon monster, augmented summoning, and the giant template from rod of giant summoning) to really get the biggest bang for my buck in my evil outsiders?
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TL;DR: No, evil outsiders do not have the fiendish template.
The only monsters that have the celestial/fiendish/etc. template available are those with an asterisk by their names on the summon monster tables. Those are the ones that Versatile Summon Monster expand to allow primordial et al. They tend to be animals or other non-outsiders. Summonable evil outsiders don't have that asterisk. Thus, they don't have the fiendish template, so there's nothing to swap out for primordial.
Seems a little silly to have summonable animals be fiendish and the spawns of hell not to be, but whatever. *shrug*
Seems a little silly to have summonable animals be fiendish and the spawns of hell not to be, but whatever. *shrug*
Well, the spawns of hell are fiendish. They just don’t have the fiendish template. Templates are added to normal creatures to make them be another way. In this case, we might take a normal wolf and then make it fiendish. It wouldn’t make much sense to take an already fiendish creature and then apply the template to them.
Just like the other side, archons, angels and whatnot do not have the Celestial template.
They are themselves celestial beings, they do not need to have to be transformed into ones.