Archives of Nethys
Eidolons
Source Impossible Magic pg. 69Though each eidolon is a unique creature and there are many types of eidolons, each draws upon a particular tradition of magic and manifests from related essence. Multiple types of each eidolon exist as well—for instance, the types of construct eidolon presented in this book are the warrior construct and the scout construct.
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Source Impossible Magic pg. 70
Your eidolon is a terrifying, incomprehensible nightmare patterned after the creatures who owe their existence to the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones. Aberrant eidolons come in a variety of forms, though their anatomies often appear twisted and impossible. Most people can't even look at any aberrant eidolon without developing a splitting headache or having a panic attack, but your studies of the occult have inured your mind to these dread terrors.
Tradition Occult
Home Plane Dimension of Dreams or the Universe
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Angel Eidolon
Angel Celestial Eidolon Holy Source Impossible Magic pg. 71
Your eidolon is a celestial messenger, a member of the angelic host with a unique link to you, allowing them to carry a special message to the mortal world at your side. Most angel eidolons are roughly humanoid in form, with feathered wings, glowing eyes, halos, or similar angelic features. However, some take the form of smaller angelic servitors like the winged helmet cassisian angel instead. The two of you are destined for an important role in the plans of the celestial realms. Though a true angel, your angel eidolon's link to you as a mortal prevents them from casting the angelic messenger ritual, even if they somehow learn it.
Tradition Divine
Home Plane Elysium, Heaven, or Nirvana
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Anger Phantom Eidolon
Eidolon Ethereal Phantom Source Impossible Magic pg. 71
Your eidolon is a lost soul, bound to the mortal world by undying anger or a bitter grudge. Most phantom eidolons are humanoids with a spectral or ectoplasmic appearance, though some take far stranger forms. Your link with your eidolon prevents them from succumbing to corruption and undeath. Together, you will need to decide whether to work with your eidolon to control their anger or channel their wrath into power.
Tradition Occult
Home Plane Ethereal Plane
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Beast Eidolon
Beast Eidolon Source Impossible Magic pg. 73
Your eidolon is a manifestation of the life force of nature in the form of a powerful magical beast that often has animal features, possibly even several from different species. You might have learned the way to connect with the world's life force via a specific philosophy or practice, such as the beliefs of the god callers of Sarkoris, or formed a bond on your own. Regardless, your link to your eidolon allows you both to grow in power and influence to keep your home safe from those who would despoil it.
Tradition Primal
Home Plane The Universe
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Construct Eidolon
Astral Construct Eidolon Source Impossible Magic pg. 73
Your eidolon is a mental construct based on an astral thoughtform and given physical presence and life by their connection to you, their shape limited only by your imagination. Your eidolon's appearance and physical form vary based on your shared vision for their construction, from clockworks to stuffed dolls and everything between, and it's not uncommon for that appearance to change greatly as your construct gains evolutions. Because they arise from an astral entity, your construct is no mindless servitor, but a fully thinking being with their own ideas, goals, and even emotions. These entities are extremely diverse; while many construct eidolons come from a powerful symbiotic connection with astral denizens, just as many arise from the forgotten memories of ancient empires and craftworks drifting across the Silver Sea of the Astral Plane.
Tradition Arcane
Home Plane Astral Plane
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Demon Eidolon
Demon Eidolon Fiend Unholy Source Impossible Magic pg. 74
Your eidolon is a demon, born of mortal sin congealed amid the chaos and evil of the Outer Rifts, using their link to you to spread chaos at your side. Choose an associated sin for your demon. Demon eidolons have appearances as varied as the infinite Outer Rifts. While demons are inherently untrustworthy, your demon eidolon has reached an accord with you and generally keeps it, though that doesn't mean your eidolon isn't actively working to bring your life deeper into their associated sin. Though a true demon, your demon eidolon's link to you as a mortal prevents them from casting the demonic pact ritual, even if they somehow learn it.
Tradition Divine
Home Plane The Outer Rifts
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Devotion Phantom Eidolon
Eidolon Ethereal Phantom Source Impossible Magic pg. 75
Your eidolon is a lost soul, unable to escape the mortal world due to a strong sense of duty, an undying devotion, or a need to complete a task that was of vital importance to the soul during their life. Most phantom eidolons are humanoid with a spectral or ectoplasmic appearance, though some take far stranger forms. Your link with your eidolon prevents them from succumbing to corruption and undeath, and together, you will grow in strength and fulfill your phantom's devotion.
Tradition Occult
Home Plane Ethereal Plane
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Dragon Eidolon
Astral Dragon Eidolon Source Impossible Magic pg. 75
Because dragons have a strong connection to magic, their minds can often leave an echo floating in the Astral Plane. Such an entity is extremely powerful but unable to interact with the outside world on their own. Dragon eidolons manifest in the powerful, scaled forms they had in life; most take the form of great dragons (albeit smaller), but some manifest as drakes or other draconic beings. You have forged a connection with such a dragon eidolon and together, you seek to grow as powerful as an archdragon.
Tradition choose Arcane, Divine, Occult, or Primal
Traits (Variable) The trait matching the eidolon’s tradition
Home Plane Astral Plane
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Elemental Eidolon
Eidolon Elemental Source Rage of Elements pg. 38
Your eidolon is a primal chunk of elemental matter infused with sapience, power, and identity, but unable to manifest a true form of their own without the life force you provide via your connection. Most elementals in their natural environment already have different sorts of forms, from vaguely humanoid, to animalistic, to simple masses of their component element. As your life force provides your eidolon the instincts necessary to adopt a physical form, their appearance varies based on the strength of their own self image and your prior exposure to elementals.
Elemental eidolons tend to reach their unusual state— powerful but formless—as the result of large scale events or cataclysms, such as the war to seal the benevolent Elemental Lords or their recent unsealing. Whether elemental eidolons possess any memories of a previous life or are a new sapience formed from left-over essence of a mighty servant of the Elemental Lords brought low varies from eidolon to eidolon. Together, you might undertake a journey to understand your eidolon's mysterious past or leave the past behind and forge a new destiny of your own.
Tradition Primal
Traits (Variable) one more (see Elemental Core, below)
Home Plane elemental plane matching their Elemental Core
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Fey Eidolon
Eidolon Fey Source Impossible Magic pg. 75
Your eidolon is a fey, a capricious being of the mysterious First World. Many fey appear similar to mortal humanoids, with unusual features such as pointed ears, wings, or bodies composed of natural elements, but the full variety of fey is endless, and many others appear completely inhuman. Fey from the First World never truly die, instead eventually forming into a new creature after being destroyed. Fey eidolons usually come about when a summoner helps stabilize a difficult reincarnation. This means your fey eidolon likely lived a different life just before meeting you and might remember fragments of their old memories. Together, you might have to unravel a memory from your eidolon's past life among the fey.
Tradition Primal
Home Plane First World
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Ooze Eidolon
Eidolon Ooze Source Impossible Magic pg. 76
Your eidolon is a simple creature of protoplasm held together by magic and your mind. They often appear as creeping blobs of a single color, but this doesn't mean they can't have distinctive features, such as moss or fungus growing on their surface or bones and other debris floating within. Because they have been formed by your thoughts, your ooze eidolon isn't mindless, but likely doesn't have a complete personality. Though your ooze eidolon speaks no language, you might believe you can interpret the constant burbles and plops they make as a form of speaking.
Tradition Arcane
Home Plane the Universe
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Plant Eidolon
Eidolon Plant Source Impossible Magic pg. 76
Your eidolon is an intelligent plant, formed from the same disembodied fragments of nature's life energy that become leshies. Plant eidolons tend to be curious and adaptable, with temperaments based on the parts of mortal culture they feel affinity toward. Despite coming from the same source, plant eidolons don't always look like leshies. Plant eidolons have forms that vary greatly and can look like almost any kind of plant creature in existence. Some even resemble plant creatures so strange they are impossible to identify.
Tradition Primal
Home Plane the Universe
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Psychopomp Eidolon
Eidolon Monitor Psychopomp Source Impossible Magic pg. 77
Your eidolon is a psychopomp, a creature whose sworn duty is to usher souls safely to the afterlife and maintain the courts of the dead. Psychopomp eidolons have a variety of appearances, but since they often traffic with mortals, their form typically includes an elaborate mask. You and your psychopomp eidolon share an important fate together, whether it relates directly to your own soul or to a mission that will somehow protect the souls of others.
Tradition Divine
Home Plane The Boneyard
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Swarm Eidolon
Animal Eidolon Swarm Source Battlecry! pg. 72
Your eidolon is a collective of primal energy and nature spirits, gathered into a single fragmentary being. This collection of natural energy has neither form nor identity until bonded with a summoner. You give these spirits purpose, connecting with them and drawing them through to the physical realm. When manifesting, these nature spirits don a simple form, adopting the guise of many Tiny animals. Each of these animals is the same creature and is marked with your summoner’s sigil. The act of manifesting in this swarm form temporarily binds the spirits together into one being, making the eidolon a single entity—one mind and personality speaking with a multitude of voices, and a multitude of bodies acting in concert with a singular purpose.
Tradition Primal
Home Plane the universe
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Undead Eidolon
Eidolon Undead Source Impossible Magic pg. 77
Your eidolon is an undead spirit pulled from the Ethereal Plane or the Void, embodied, and bound to your life force in an unusual, potentially antithetical way that even other summoners can't quite understand. Undead eidolons take about every imaginable shape and form, as their bodies manifest from their connection to you. Their ultimate form can be influenced by an amalgamation of the echoes and memories of their old life before becoming undead, their cause of death, their encounters in the afterlife, and portions of your own essences. Together, you and your eidolon need to explore the mysteries of life, death, and undeath to understand what your bond means for both of your futures.
Tradition Occult
Home Plane Ethereal Plane or Void
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