Based on some ongoing discussions around the Animist, here's the premise: the Animist's Lore skills are really cool, and as a hyper-versatile Wisdom caster that has room to opt into Intelligence as a fourth score (at the expense of maybe Strength or Dexterity, which both feed into other apparitions and feats), I think there's plenty of room for an apparition centered around Recalling Knowledge. Here's the idea:
Speakers of untold tales appear wherever knowledge is exchanged in great amounts, often in bustling cities rich with gossip and intrigue. They eagerly seek out animists who will readily share their own life experiences, and for every story they are regaled with, they tell an equally captivating tale in return. There is nothing a speaker of untold tales hates more than a secret, however, and they will relentlessly pursue its keeper until it is revealed.
Apparition Skills Mercantile Lore, Theater Lore
Apparition Spells Cantrip message; 1st mindlink; 2nd blistering invective; 3rd hypercognition; 4th countless eyes; 5th sending; 6th phantom orchestra; 7th retrocognition; 8th unrelenting observation; 9th overwhelming presence
Vessel Spell pry
Avatar Hero of the Untold Story Speed 50 feet, ignore difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain; Melee (single-action) pointed retort (deadly 3d8, finesse, reach 15 feet), Damage 6d8+6 piercing; Ranged (single-action) deafening oration (range 120 feet, versatile mental), Damage 6d6+6 sonic
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Uncommon, Animist, Concentrate, Focus
Duration sustained up to 1 minute
Your apparition spurs you to uncover what others would keep hidden, filling the gaps in your knowledge with rumors that might just prove true. For the duration, you become trained in Secret Lore, a special Lore skill that can be used only to Recall Knowledge, but on any topic. When you Cast this Spell and the first time you Sustain it each round, you Recall Knowledge using a Lore skill, which can be Secret Lore or any other Lore, and can immediately announce any knowledge you obtained from the check.
The information you obtain from your apparition is mostly hearsay, so you take a -2 circumstance penalty to checks using Secret Lore, but it provides additional details to your other knowledge domains, granting you a +1 circumstance bonus to checks to Recall Knowledge using any other Lore skill in which you're trained.
Heightened (3rd) Your proficiency in Secret Lore is expert, and the circumstance bonus is +2.
Heightened (5th) Your proficiency in Secret Lore is master, and the circumstance bonus is +3.
Heightened (9th) Your proficiency in Secret Lore is legendary, and the circumstance bonus is +4.
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Effectively, you'd get an apparition that'd be really good for Recalling Knowledge, obtaining and communicating information in general, and also blasting out your foes' eardrums and setting them on fire as you spill the tea. Though useful on any Animist build, it'd be especially useful on an Animist who builds Intelligence, especially one that accumulates additional Lore skills or chooses their apparitions specifically for the Lore they provide. What do you think?