Life Bond (Su): At 14th level, the trainer’s life becomes linked to his active monster’s As long as the monster has or more hit points, the trainer is protected from harm Damage in excess of that which would reduce the trainer to hit points is instead transferred to the monster This damage is transferred point at a time, meaning that as soon as the monster is reduced to a number of negative hit points equal to its Constitution score, all excess damage remains with the trainer Effects that cause death but don’t deal damage are unaffected by this ability This ability does not affect spells such as baleful polymorph, flesh to stone, imprisonment, or other spells that don’t deal damage Merge Forms (Su): At 16th level, as a full-round action, a hybrid trainer can touch his active monster and the two can merge forms This transformation includes all of the trainer’s gear While merged in this way, the trainer is protected from harm and cannot be the target of spells or effects All effects and spells currently targeting the trainer are suspended until the trainer emerges from the monster (although durations continue to expire) The trainer can cast spells while inside the monster by taking control of the monster for the duration of the casting Any material components used for these spells are taken from the trainer’s gear, even though they are otherwise inaccessible The trainer can direct all of the monster’s actions while merged, can perceive through its senses, and can speak through its voice The trainer can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to his hybrid trainer level He can end this effect at any time as a swift action The trainer emerges in a square adjacent to the monster if able If the monster is returned to the trainer’s essence while the trainer is merged with it, the trainer is immediately ejected, takes 4d6 points of damage, and is stunned for round Greater Chimeric Pattern (Ex): At 17th level, a hybrid trainer’s chimeric patterns no longer require the monster growth evolution Greater Aspect (Su): At 19th level, a hybrid trainer can divert more of his evolution points to himself This ability functions as the aspect ability, but the maximum number of evolution points the trainer can divert increases to Perfect Chimera (Ex): At 20th level, a hybrid trainer’s chimeric patterns automatically include the monster growth evolution for free If a monster cannot grow, it gains the advanced template for free instead Hybrid Trainer Evolutions The following evolutions are available only to hybrid trainers Chimeric Spellcasting (2 Points) Choose the trainer spell list of a monster you have captured You gain access to spell per spell level from that monster’s trainer spell list while a chimeric pattern is applied to your active monster Requirements: At least hybrid patterns and chimeric pattern Extended Link (1 Point) Your life link distance is tripled (300 feet, 3,000 feet, and 30,000 feat) If you choose instead to spend points, the distance is extended by 5x (500 feet, etc) Finally, if you choose instead to spend points, your active monster can travel anywhere on the same plane without penalty, and you can use transposition to trade places with it anywhere out to 50,000 feet, as greater teleport Mock Eidolon (4 Points) Your active monster can move and attack independently of you, requiring no actions on your part to direct it It still acts on your turn, but can change its initiative by holding its action The monster cannot cast its own trainer spells, but can work in concert with you so that you can still cast them through it using bond senses Monster Growth (3 Points) Your active monster grows to its highest available form, or to a lesser form and gains the advanced creature template You can choose which to apply as you call upon the monster The monster’s adjusted CR must still be less than your hybrid trainer level Twin Monsters (3 Points) You can call upon up to monsters at a time, applying a single hybrid pattern to each One monster must possess the mock eidolon evolution The other monster must possess this evolution and cannot have mock eidolon Requirements: 20th level, mock eidolon Hybrid Trainer Feats The following feats are available to hybrid trainers Create Hybrid Beasts You can create entirely new species of monsters given time Prerequisites: 7th-level hybrid trainer, mock eidolon hybrid trainer evolution Benefit: You can craft a permanent form for one of your captured monsters using a combination of rare materials, such as gemstones, exotic wood or furs, and special oils The form requires both 1,000 gp of materials and day to craft per final CR of the monster The monster must possess the mock eidolon evolution, but can have any other appropriate evolutions applied to it as well For every points of evolutions applied beyond the cost of mock eidolon in this way, the monster’s effective CR is increased by from its base form (a monster with between and points spent, for example, would increase its CR by +2) If the monster growth evolution is applied in this way, calculate the new CR based on the grown monster, not including the cost of monster growth When the form is complete, you spend a final day placing the monster’s essence within it This reduces your maximum evolution points by Evolution points spent in this way return at a rate of per week A completed monster is freed from you and able to be captured again It regards you as a friend, but is not immediately compelled to be recaptured, should you decide to so If recaptured by any monster trainer, that trainer can choose to disregard the monster’s applied evolutions, which are removed from it, creating an amount of convergence dust equal to half the cost of creating the monster’s physical form Hybrid Hero You are just as much a master of evolution as any hybrid trainer Prerequisites: 5th-level hybrid trainer, at least levels in nontrainer classes Benefit: You add half your total levels in non-trainer classes when determining how many evolution points you have If you are an 11th-level or higher hybrid trainer, you also gain your choice of greater aspect or merge forms at 20th level 191