Summoners, Tell us about your Eidolons! How does your favorite friend look?

[Merellin]

So, This is just a random thread to ask people how their eidolons look! What kind of fun and creative eidolons have you built?

I only played a single summoner, A ratfolk based on Thanquol from Warhammer Fantasy, So obiously his eidolon was Boneripper! The large four armed rat ogre! With fire breath as one version of Boneripper had a flamethrower built into one of his arms.

[Derklord]

Like this, only with four legs (and without the arms, initially). Called Veggie because my half-drow Summoner thought it to be a vegepygmy on their first encounter. The drow-vegepygmy connection was also the reason for it to be a fungus-y creature in the first place.

[Quentin Coldwater]

I made a Summoner based on something found in a PFS adventure. Main character is a criminal, with an Inevitable as his guardian. He's allowed to go outside, but has to have his "jailer" with him at all times. I had a lot of fun with that dynamic. It added a lot of flavour to the character.

[Dragonborn3]

Back when Sarkosis could actually make fragments of their dieties manifest(before Unchained), I used the idea for a Sarkoran samsaran that saved a very minor, ancient, and forgotten diety from a curse of undeath by 'killing' the body.

A quadraped with snake like features, Chakacoutl was eventually going to have three heads(representing birth, life, and death). This was the inspiration. I was going to pick up evolutions for spell casting, grappling, venom for the bite, and fast healing.

Vehemently opposed to undead, Chakacoutl was a Deity of Snakes, Healing, and Reincarnation/Rebirth. He only had one priest(the summoner) though.

[Kimera757]

Derklord wrote:

Like this, only with four legs (and without the arms, initially). Called Veggie because my half-drow Summoner thought it to be a vegepygmy on their first encounter. The drow-vegepygmy connection was also the reason for it to be a fungus-y creature in the first place.

Upvote just for saying Thanquol.

The last time I saw a summoner, his summon was basically a fiend. It started with claws but the summoner got it a magic greatsword.

[Smoke & Mirrors]

Got to give the background for the Character too, to get the right image...

Character Background. Mirrors is an Azata Blooded Aasimar, (called "Mirrors" because of his eyes being all silver and reflective) a well-to-do rich kid who in his adolescence slipped off with some of his fathers cigars (thinking to himself "Father'll never notice them missing") to try out this adult "smoking" thing. Mostly with the expected results (got sick). But he found that when he tried to blow smoke rings (something he had seen his father do) he kept getting humaniod shapes.... several weeks and a number of cigars later and he found he could create "almost real" shapes. Being a young male with an active imagination, his "imagined shape" began to take on the shape often imagined by young adolescent males... you get the idea. Now add in a touch of Anime - and perhaps a splash of succubus (but not evil), and you have Smoke.

His Table Tent describes him like ths: Summoner/"Party Face" - Azata Blooded Aasimar, Silver Mirrored Eyes, white hair, Golden Halo, Dressed in brightly colored silks and leather lamellar armor - he often has "Smoke" hiding near by.

Mirrors calls up Smoke with a procedure that involves lighting up and "smoking" a cigar - Takes a minute or so, lean back, maybe have a glass of good Whiskey and blow Smoke into existence.

Smoke - Small Humaniod Eidolon. NOT a combat creature. At the first sign of combat, Mirrors will normally "send her away". She is VERY SHY, and hides all the time (and is very, very good at not being seen). She is very curious though - kind of like a kitten - and always looking for hidden things - and good at finding them.
Feats: 1) Extra Traits (Kobold neighbor & Inspired), 2) Skill Focus (Stealth) 3) Hellcat Stealth, 4) Dilettante
Evolution Points: 1)Skilled (Stealth), 2) Skilled (Perception), 3) Skilled (Disable Device), 4) Scent, 5) Climb, 6-7) Flight (wings more like a succubus), 8-9) Shadow Blend, 10-11) Shadow Form, 12-13) Ability Increase (INT)

So - I've got a "Rich Kid" Summoner with a "Sex Kitten" Eidolon who many people will think is just imaginary... 'cause they never see it.

[David knott 242]

My summoner's eidolon was a chaotic neutral snake woman, intermediate in appearance and personality between a lillend azata and a marilith demon. She believed herself to be the avatar of the summoner's deity, and it was often unclear which of the two was in charge.

She also became jealous when she was summoned one morning and realized that she could now speak Celestial even though she had never been around anyone who spoke that language. She quickly figured out that my PC had been expending his leftover monster summoning SLA slots each evening summoning a bralani azata for language lessons.

[Ventnor]

I haven't really had the chance to do so, but I kind of want to play an Unchained Summoner whose Eidolon is a Cloud Dragon.

[Yqatuba]

Haven't played a summoner, but if I did it would be a gold tapir with angel wings (the wings probably wouldn't work at first).

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

Paulie Dingle found a fat squirrel in the forest and took it home with him. Over the years the squirrel kept getting bigger and bigger. By the time his cousin Molly Dingle needed his help with some adventuring stuff, McSquizzy was taller than a grizzly bear and liked biting peoples heads off.

[Ember the Eidolon]

Ember was the Eidolon for my Summoner in Kingmaker, Servayn Krolz. He may or may not have had some sort of tie to the fallen house Rorgavia, in Brevoy, with it's former rulers unknown connection to a pair of red dragons. (He carefully denied such rumors, in a way as to keep them alive. 'Cause it was funny, and he's a jerk.)

Ember started out with the quadruped type, and bought various features that would make it feel more 'dragon-y,' such as scales and stuff, and was headed for wings, fire resistance and a fiery breath weapon, and looking very much like a lion-sized red dragon. (Even if some of those choices would have been sub-optimal, given the nature of the breath weapon evolution, and the lack of fiery attacks in that particular AP. In retrospect, the frightful presence evolution would have been cheaper, effective more times per day, and still on-theme. Plus Ember could have complained endlessly about not being able to breathe fire 'yet' and maybe coughted out the occasional bit of hot cinder-laden black smoke, and then look really disappointed about it...)

He was not more than baseline Eidolon intelligence, but acted stereotypically haughty and 'catty' and very much like he thought he was the superior dragon-y being that he appeared as. If I was willing to go 100% on-theme and screw the effectiveness, I would have given him fire immunity and spell resistance and all that jazz, but my roleplayer vs. rollplayer inner dichotomy requires that I have at least some attention spent to 'how well this will play' vs. 'how cool this will look.' :)

As it is, I didn't get far enough along to get him wings or large size, so he played much like a big cat animal companion, all bite, claws and pounce, although he acted 'dragon-y' including hoarding things and demanding that Servayn keep a 'trove' of 'treasure' in his handy haversack that he'd take out for Ember to roll around in. (The eventual plan was to get a couple thousand copper coins and plate them with gold leaf, so it looked and felt like gold, but didn't represent as much money flushed down the drain on a vain 'bed' for a creature that can't even sleep...)

[Sysryke]

I couldn't resist the pun, so I made D'Jaimon the Ketchemal, so I could honestly tell folk that, "I got a Ketchemal!" . . . .

Yes, I realize it's painful, I realize I'm mixing mediums, and I know I must be stopped :p

Anyway, "Dij" was built more for utility than combat. He was our scout/rogue/scamp. His Summoner was an Aasimar who worked for a magical creatures nature park, and wanted to see and catalog all the creatures he'd read about in myths and legends. To that end I worked to get all of the evolutions that granted movement types. I started Dij with the serpentine base form (small), but a pseudo-mammalian skin, a stinger, and a snapping turtle-like face. Imagine a plushie constrictor stuffed animal doll from a zoo but with a fur texture like a well oiled seal or otter. His fur was technically gray, but shifted through rainbow hues in the light like the patina on an oil slick. As he evolved I added different appendages to "justify" the different movement types. He grew spindly arms that extended from his abdomen like the landing gear on a plane (and they could tuck back in). For flight, I wanted a non-traditional wing; so he developed furlable skin flaps that when extended looked like Manta Ray fins. Eventually he would have developed "shoulder spikes" that could articulate like natural drill heads; this would give burrowing and a gore attack.

Campaign tapered off, but a fun build.