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Contents 1 Bonding Requirements 2 Known Abilities 2.1 Combat Bonuses 2.2 Attribute Modifications 2.3 Specialty Bonuses 2.3.1 Tier 1 2.3.2 Tier 2 2.3.3 Tier 3 2.3.4 Tier 4 2.4 Charms 2.5 Additional Bonuses and Powers 2.5.1 Traits granted

Bonding Requirements

Some combination of social skills is required, based on the failure message:

You sense a lack of social regard from the female mastodon, as though her considers you
ignorant about what it takes to be a member of a community.

It is difficult to say exactly which skills are required, but this familiar was obtainable fairly easily after joining the Brotherhood of Wine and Song and cycling through various easy-access trainers of social skills.

Known Abilities

Pachyderms are huge, thick-skinned animals native to the Northlands. This category includes elephants, mastodons, mammoths and rhinoceroses. They are physically extremely tough, with vast constitution and significant resistance to physical damage, and are excellent mounts. They breathe air, have an herbivorous diet, and cannot see in the dark.

Combat Bonuses

Attribute Modifications

The pachyderm familiar grants its consort a very large bonus to constitution, a large bonus to strength, and moderate bonuses to willpower and charisma.

Specialty Bonuses

Bonus specialty degrees and access are provided as follows:

Tier 1

• Load Bearing

Tier 2

At the middle of "very frail" bond strength:

• Crushing Resistance
• Cutting Resistance
• Piercing Resistance
• Carousing
• Hardiness
• Resilience
• Steadiness

Tier 3

At around the middle of "fairly healthy" (25%?):

• Empathy
• Massive Blow

At "very healthy" bond strength, the first tier bonus specialty (Load Bearing) is increased to 2.

Tier 4

Charms

Initially the pachyderm grants the following charms:

• Urge
• Tame
• Command

Shortly after:

• Call Familiar
• Send Familar
• Kinsee

Additional Bonuses and Powers

Traits granted