Call Canine Familiar

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Call Canine Familiar
Level	3
School1	Summoning
Source(s)	Book of Callings Book of Beasts
Casting noise	3
Spell noise	0

Summons a canine to the caster's aid. You can sustain at most one creature summoned by this spell.

Call Canine Familiar is a level 3 Summonings spell which summons one "h" glyph monsters to fight for you. Higher spell power results in a better canine and more duration. Possible summons are:

h Hound

h Wolf

h Warg

Strategy

• Call Imp may produce more interesting allies than Call Canine Familiar, but they're far less reliable; the tactical usefulness of a crimson imp or iron imp is far less guaranteed than that of a fast monster that bites fairly hard. That doesn't mean you should stop using it, however; Call Canine Familiar has a summon cap of only 1, so there's little reason not to use both together.
• Hounds are certainly helpful, but this spell really starts to shine when you manage to get your spell power high enough that you can reliably summon wolves. Eventually reaching warg spell power levels will help further, but that increase in effectiveness is significantly less dramatic.

History

Prior to 0.14, this spell could also summon jackals and its summon cap was 3.