Spirit Animal (Ex)

A Rivethun emissary strengthens her bond to the spirit world by channeling additional divine power through her familiar or spirit animal. If she had a non-spirit-animal familiar before becoming a Rivethun emissary, she can select a single shaman spirit (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 37). Her familiar gains the spirit animal ability associated with that spirit.

If the Rivethun emissary had the spirit animal class feature before becoming a Rivethun emissary, her spirit animal grows in power and begins to manifest unnatural traits. The spirit animal gains 2 evolution points as if it were an eidolon (see page 60 of Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide) and can use them to purchase eidolon evolutions from the following list: basic magic, climb, flight, gills, improved natural armor, magic attacks, minor magic, skilled, swim, tail, and unnatural aura. At 5th level, the Rivethun emissary’s spirit animal gains an additional evolution point. It can spend this point to gain an additional evolution, or it can freely reassign all of its points to purchase different evolutions. It also adds the following to its list of available evolutions: burrow, damage reduction, and major magic.