One ability of your minions particularly strong.

Prerequisites: None

Benefit:

Choose a minion from a summoning spell or feature like animal companion, special mount or eidolon. Such creatures are known as signature minion. Name the creature. The minion is unique, multiple animal companions or summoning spells cast can not call the signature minion twice at the same time.

You can teach feats and attributes to the creature as if it had the Apprentice feat.

If a signature minion is slain, you need to raise it with a special ritual that takes one week.

Summoning: Whenever use the appropriate summoning ability, you may choose to call your minion. You can equip it with items wearable by the creature and will bring and use those items, when summoned by you in future. Also the DC of checks to dispel signature summons are increased by 2.

Upgrading: When you gain a similar feature of a higher level, you can choose to replace the minion to upgrade the signature minion to the better version. A upgraded minion retains the items, learned feats and attributes. E.g. Once you reach second level spells, a small fire elemental signature summon, could become a medium fire elemental summoned by summon medium fire elemental. However, a summoned cat cannot be replaced by summon snake. A horse could become a celestial horse or pegasus. Ask your DM if you are unsure.

Alternatively, you can also upgrade summoning spells by adding 2 levels of the pathfinder npc class per raised spell level, e.g., a summoned hound archon (first level spell) raised to a third level spell could gain four pathfinder warrior levels.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. You choose a new name and a new creature each time.