Rivethun Emissary - Emissary Familiar


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Emissary Familiar wrote:

You forge a mystical bond with a spirit or create a spirit from a fragment of your own soul. You gain a familiar. If you already have a familiar, you gain the Enhanced Familiar feat.

Your familiar gains two additional familiar abilities each day, one of which must be used to select the following master ability[...]

AoN: Emissary Familiar

The way i read this feat, you get either a familiar or the Enhanced Familiar feat.
And regardless of that, your familiar gains two additional abilites.
Which would mean 4 additional abilities, if you already have a familiar, with one of those being locked to the special master ability.

Even though you have to wait two levels compared to Familiar Master, it seems like a powerful option - in addition to loads of flavor.
Or am i reading it wrong?

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Its a really great archetype. You get a great utility focus spell with the dedication and again can pick up another at L6 as a domain spell.


That's a really flavorful and cool dedication.

It'd be great to tack onto a any Dwarven character that wanted to present a connection to the spiritual.

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I am planning to use it for an upcoming Carrion Crown (2e) campaign.
She is a scholar of history, spirits and undeath, having studied in Lepidstadt under Professor Lorrimor.

I am going all in on lore skills, she is a Lorekeeper Shisk with the Shisk Lore ancestry feat and the Pillar of Society background, giving her a total of 7 lore skills - one auto-scaling due to additional lore.

We will be playing with Free Archetype, and i was looking for something different than Familiar Master.
Even though i am not a dwarf, i figured that living underground the Shisk may have some contact and the Rivethun philosophy/religion would be something interesting to use.

Just wanted to be sure that i understand the Emissary Familiar feat correctly, as Pathbuilder seems only to add the Enhanced Familiar yet.


I read it the same way as you, it clearly says "additional" after listing the baseline that you already get the normal effects of (familiar/enhanced familiar).

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