Quote Originally Posted by werescythe View Post
Well, the idea I had was that Shadow Hound (roleplaying wise) might speak subconsciously with the character as it doesn't have a physical form, so the player has to spend the sorcery points to summon it, thus bringing it into the physical plane.
It's definitely a cool idea, but it's totally RP which means it's up to the DM and the player to work that out. It doesn't give the player any extra power, just flavor. You can have it be like Kindred from League of Legends that is technically 2 characters, but 1 is a wolf head that just floats around a lamb. Wolf doesn't do anything but talk to Lamb (together they are known as Kindred) until you use on of it's abilities.

You can flavor it as the players shadow that is animated or awakened, or a floating dog shadow head that hangs out on the body of the player and occasionally peeks its head out of the clothes to talk to the player.

Very cool idea.