Can a Celestial be Awakened?

[Ugulu the Barbarian]

As the title says, can a Cerlestial (Animal) be Awakened? I'm guessing not since beinga Celestial makes the creature a Magical Beast. And, if so, is this bipassible in any way?

Thanks for whoever can answer this rather foolish question

 

[Dandu]

No.

Awaken

You awaken a tree or animal to humanlike sentience. To succeed, you must make a Will save (DC 10 + the animal’s current HD, or the HD the tree will have once awakened).
The awakened animal or tree is friendly toward you. You have no special empathy or connection with a creature you awaken, although it serves you in specific tasks or endeavors if you communicate your desires to it.
An awakened tree has characteristics as if it were an animated object, except that it gains the plant type and its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores are each 3d6. An awakened plant gains the ability to move its limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth, and it has senses similar to a human’s.
An awakened animal gets 3d6 Intelligence, +1d3 Charisma, and +2 HD. Its type becomes magical beast (augmented animal). An awakened animal can’t serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount.
An awakened tree or animal can speak one language that you know, plus one additional language that you know per point of Intelligence bonus (if any).
XP Cost

250 XP.

 

[Runestar]

I do in fact recall some ability in eberron which lets you awaken magical beasts (or at least cast the awaken spell on magical beasts). And best of all, since the effect is instantaneous, you can keep recasting said spell on the creature to give it bonus HD and better wis.

 

[Herobizkit]

Wouldn't an animal with the Celestial template be just an animal with the Celestial template?

Answer: nope, because I'm dumb.

Animals or vermin with this [Celestial] template become magical beasts, but otherwise the creature type is unchanged. Size is unchanged. Celestial creatures encountered on the Material Plane have the extraplanar subtype.

However, there's no rule stating that you can't add the Celestial template to an Awakened animal...

Creating A Celestial Creature

"Celestial" is an inherited template that can be added to any corporeal aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, plant, or vermin of good or neutral alignment (referred to hereafter as the base creature).

 

[Runestar]

Celestial is inherited, meaning you technically have to apply it to the base animal first, before you can awaken it.

There are however, spells which add the fiendish/celestial template to a creature, so you can get round this limitation readily.

 

[the Jester]

You also might be able to use a miracle or wish to change its type back to animal and then awaken it.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

You also might be able to use a miracle or wish to change its type back to animal and then awaken it.

Or to simulate the theoretical awaken celestial animal...

 

[Jack Simth]

Or to simulate the theoretical awaken celestial animal...

Or Polymorph it into an animal so that it's a valid target for Awaken.

 

[Ugulu the Barbarian]

I just found an answer to my own question. Going through my "inherited" stack of Dragon Magazines, I found an Awaken Magical Beast spell equivalent.

It also has an Awaken Ooze, but that just seems plain stupid.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

It also has an Awaken Ooze, but that just seems plain stupid.

It wouldn't be that stupid, would it? A roll of 3d6 gives the ooze an average of 10 or 11 Intelligence. That's not brilliant, but it's hardly "stupid".

Awakened oozes have feelings, too, you know!