Looking for raw AND rai, but which templates, if any, that are normally applied to individuals, can be applied to Swarms?

[Reksew_Trebla]

Like, Monkey Swarm is a thing. Can I apply Foo Creature to it? If yes, can I apply the upgraded version, Imperial Foo Creature (found at the bottom of the regular version's page) to said Monkey Swarm?

Can I make a Monkey Swarm be the animal of an Animal Lord or a Lycanthrope? Or could I make it the base creature (not base animal) for Lycanthropic Creature? Probably easier to confirm, but back to Lycanthropic Creature, could I make a Sprite Swarm be the base creature, and the base animal be a Monkey Swarm?

Bonus question: Can I apply Giant to a size Tiny Swarm?

I know that is a lot of questions, I just have a lot of ideas, and want to know if there is any rules at all for this before I throw something like one of these at a group of players. Any help would be appreciated.

[Mysterious Stranger]

A Swarm is not actually a creature, it is a collection of smaller creatures that individually are not threat, but the sheer number make it dangerous. RAW Swarms are composed of fine, diminutive, or tiny creatures. Anything larger cannot be made into a swarm. If you want a collection of larger creatures the Troop type would work.

An Animal Lord is supposed to be a unique creature created by the gods the description states only one Animal Lord for a specific creature is active on a world at any one time. So, I would say that a swarm or troop of Animal Lords is definitely not RAI and probably also not RAW. Any templates that look like they create unique creatures should not be a swarm or a troop.

Lycanthropes are humanoids. As far as I know there are no tiny or smaller humanoids, so that template is not suitable for swarms. You could use the troop type if you want an army of werewolves.

The giant template might be ok for creating really big swarms, but it would not create swarms of larger creatures.