Find Greater Steed

Find Greater Steed
Level4th Level Casting Time10 minutes Range10m
AoESingle DurationInstantaneous
SchoolSpace ComponentsV, S
ClassesPaladin

You summon a spirit that assumes the form of an unusually intelligent, strong and loyal steed, creating a long lasting bond with it.

Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the steed takes on a form that you choose: a coeurl, a dire wolf, a garuda-egi, a griffon, a hunter shark, a pegasus, or a saber-toothed tiger. (Your DM might allow other animals to be summoned as steeds.) The steed has the statistics of the chosen form, except its type becomes Celestial, Elemental, Fey, or Fiend. Additionally if your steed has an INT score of 5 or less, its INT becomes 6, and it gains the ability to understand one language of your choice that you speak.

The steed serves as a mount, both in combat and out, and you have an instinctive bond with it that allows you to fight as a seamless unit. While mounted on your steed, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target your steed.

When the steed drops to 0 HP, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. You can dismiss your steed at any time as an action, causing it to disappear. In either case, casting this spell again summons the same steed, restored to its maximum HP.

While the steed is within 1 km of you, you can communicate with it telepathically.

You cannot have more than one steed bonded by this spell or the Find Steed spell at a time. As an action, you can release the steed from its bond at any time, causing it to disappear.

Just don't take Pegasus from Hercules when he needs it!