Type: General
Source: Dragon #280
Your familiar is an undead creature.
Benefit: Rather than a living creature, your familiar is an undead version of a normal animal. See undead special qualities. Note that you cannot convert an existing non-undead familiar to an undead familiar by taking this feat, although if your familiar is slain and you have this feat, you can reanimate your dead familiar with a raise dead spell. Undead familiars tend to be associated with characters of evil alignment, particularly necromancers.
Undead familiars can be turned or rebuked. Use the familiar's effective Hit Dice (see About Familiars) for the purposes of turning or rebuking. A familiar fleeing or cowering as the result of a successful turn can't obey commands from the master (any more than it could while fear struck or paralyzed). Raising a destroyed undead familiar brings it back as a living creature.