Index of familiars (2E)

This index contains lists and rules relevant only to Pathfinder Second Edition. Descriptions of the nature of familiars and processes related to acquiring them, what occurs upon a familiar's death, and class-specific functions of familiars differ in Pathfinder First Edition. For a First Edition equivalent to this index, see Index of familiars (1E).

Many types of creatures can serve as familiars.

Common familiars

Familiars are most commonly animals, especially bats, cats, foxes, ravens, and snakes. Familiars might also be plants, and such familiars might also be capable of shapeshifting into other types of plants. Other familiars can be constructs, dragons, elementals, fungi, or undead. However, the precise nature of a familiar can also depend on the ancestry or class of the person to which it is bonded.

Specific familiars

Attracting specific, unusual, and powerful non-animal familiars requires the person to hone their magical prowess.

Such familiars include:

• aeon wyrds
• calligraphy wyrms
• cerus
• clockworks
• crysmal shardlings
• dweomercat cubs
• elemental scamps
• elemental wisps
• fey dragonets
• imps
• gennayn
• homunculi
• house drakes
• imp
• kinnars
• lantern wisps
• makhluk wayangs
• mockingfey
• mood clouds
• nosoi psychopomps
• pipefoxes
• poppets
• the spellcaster's own shadow
• shikigami
• spellslimes
• spirit guides
• sweet beasts
• tapir sages

Undead familiars

Undead specific familiars have the same requirements, but as undead creatures they have different properties and are often limited to necromancers or others who work with undeath.

• crawling hands
• old friends
• polongs
• talking heads

External links

• Familiar abilities and specific familiars on Archives of Nethys for Pathfinder Second Edition