Ascendancy shards may be applied to an animal companion that is currently bonded with or owned by a player character, once a player has attuned to the shard they may apply it to said animal companion and the animal companion gains the following benefits.
The animal companion's current hit points and hit point maximum increases by one of its current hit die.
The animal companion also gains a telepathic link with the player, which provides the following benefits.
Your animal companion may act independently from you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turns, additionally while your bonded creature is within 100 feet of you, you may communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action you can see through your animal companion's eyes and hear through its ears until the start of your turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the animal companion has. During this time, you are blind and deaf with regards to your own senses.
If an Ascendancy shard is applied a second time or to an animal companion such as a familiar summoned with the Find Familiar spell, the summoned familiar gains the following benefits, regardless of what the chosen form of the familiar takes.
The animal companion or summoned familiar gains a +2 bonus to its intelligence stat and a +2 to another stat of your choice, to a maximum of 20. Additionally the range of your telepathic link increases by 100 Feet and the animal companion or summoned familiar's current hit points and hit point maximum increases by one of its hit die. Lastly the animal companion or summoned familiar's proficiency modifier increases by 1.
Notes: player spending 30 minutes to attune with the item or attune as part of a short rest.
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