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<blockquote data-quote="Cyrinishad" data-source="post: 7134363" data-attributes="member: 6808925">Well, although Flamestrike is conflating the Monstrous Manual info with the Pact of the Chain info... I am less certain that any summoned Familiar doesn't have it's own agenda. Specifically, because it is a summoned Celestial, Fey, or Fiendish spirit, that (as referenced by the Find Familiar spell) acts independently of you. It is compelled to obey your commands by virtue of the conjuration spell that summoned it, but that doesn't preclude the fact that it is an otherwise independent Celestial, Fey, or Fiendish spirit...You're right that it can't disobey the summoners direct commands, but that's about it... It's not a construct or automaton, it's a planar spirit that is being temporarily bound by the conjurer to take a familiar form... if that spirit is a Fiendish spirit, it is most certainly evil... and any of the familiar spirits could certainly have their own agenda. The only thing that restricts the familiar's actions is the direct commands of the summoner... That is a very narrow compulsion on a planar being, that leaves a lot of room for interpretation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cyrinishad, post: 7134363, member: 6808925"] Well, although Flamestrike is conflating the Monstrous Manual info with the Pact of the Chain info... I am less certain that any summoned Familiar doesn't have it's own agenda. Specifically, because it is a summoned Celestial, Fey, or Fiendish spirit, that (as referenced by the Find Familiar spell) acts independently of you. It is compelled to obey your commands by virtue of the conjuration spell that summoned it, but that doesn't preclude the fact that it is an otherwise independent Celestial, Fey, or Fiendish spirit... You're right that it can't disobey the summoners direct commands, but that's about it... It's not a construct or automaton, it's a planar spirit that is being temporarily bound by the conjurer to take a familiar form... if that spirit is a Fiendish spirit, it is most certainly evil... and any of the familiar spirits could certainly have their own agenda. The only thing that restricts the familiar's actions is the direct commands of the summoner... That is a very narrow compulsion on a planar being, that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. [/QUOTE]

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