Halfling Summoner lvl 9 in Pathfinder, with a big problem.
GM "killed" my Eidolon the only way he knew how: send it into the future a hundred years. It was planar locked, so when it got knocked out, it was stuck on the field and wasn't able to return to its home plane. He then sent it 100 years into the future.
Is there any way that it could return back to its plane and come back to my original time? Is there any way to get it back from 100 years in the future?
Is sending an eidolon 100 years into the future, to never return, even possible?
Cause if I don't have my eidolon, or I can't make a new one, then half of my feats, skills and a few spells are now worthless.
(Also, I know of the Scepter of Ages, and the GM said he probably won't help me find it.)
Best Answer
According to the traditional summoner's eidolon class feature, this isn't a problem unless the GM says it is...
The traditional Pathfinder summoner's eidolon class feature says that
Emphasis mine. The term eidolon is used for two distinctly different creatures in this description. First, the eidolon is the creature to whom the summoner forms the link. Second, an eidolon is a summoned aspect of the creature to whom the summoner formed the link. The first, the linked eidolon, is unalterable without GM intervention. The second, an eidolon aspect, is just an incredibly complex creature that's summoned.
The description of the Conjuration school explains the significant differences between a creature that's summoned and a creature that's called. When a creature is summoned, the effect
Emphasis mine. A summoned eidolon whose summoning effect ends returns to where it came from. However, the DM may have confused a summoned eidolon with a creature that's called. When a creature is called, the effect
This means, for example, a called eidolon would die only once ever, but a summoned eidolon can be summoned over and over despite its apparent death, banishment, disappearance, imprisonment, or whatever. The eidolon aspect is summoned not called.
Thus the summoner should be able to take a standard action to dismiss an eidolon aspect then summon again an eidolon aspect when he's able even if an eidolon aspect is 100 years in the future because the link the summoner formed is not to an eidolon aspect but to the linked eidolon from which the summoner summons an eidolon aspect. Even if an eidolon aspect is 100 years in the future, the linked eidolon should still exist during the summoner's time unless the GM's messed with that, too.
A clumsier, more succinct argument along similar lines in fewer words
As a summoned creature, an eidolon is instantly sent back where it came from when it's dismissed, killed, or whatever, and an eidolon transported 100 years into the future didn't come from 100 years in the future but 100 years in the past.
...Yet the GM may say the eidolon's disappearance is still a problem
I can't have all the information about the campaign, but it sounds like the summoner might've run afoul of the DM. It's easy to do with a summoner, which is widely considered one of the game's most powerful classes.1 It's possible that the DM decided to take away the eidolon only briefly—like some DMs are wont to do with a wizard's spellbook—because the DM assumed he occasionally should despite the game making eidolon removal really difficult (e.g. maybe an instantaneous effect like petrified persists until the effect can be removed). By pointing out the rules, the DM might, instead, take more drastic measures to mitigate the character's power.2 Alternatively, the DM could be planning something awesome but is unaware of how the eidolon works and citing the rules sabotages what might otherwise be a really cool plot.
So before you bring this up, talk to the GM about his plans and confirm that he recognizes how much of your character is bundled into this creature your character summons. If the GM appears sympathetic and says that you should wait a couple of sessions and everything'll be fine, then be patient. If the GM cackles maniacally and says that you're screwed, then bring up the rules.
Time travel yourself: A last resort
If it looks like the GM will never return your eidolon—despite this answer—, and you're nothing without an eidolon, and you've nothing tying yourself to the current time, wait the 100 years. Many possibilities for time traveling the hard way exist—most of them inconceivably boring—, but probably the most painless is to master a homunculus; buy stone salve and a scroll of flesh to stone; find a safe place to hole up (e.g. an elven law firm, a dwarven bank, an ancient creature's heavily-traveled and treasure-filled lair);3 order the homunculus to rub the stone salve on you in 100 years; and cast flesh to stone on yourself, voluntarily failing the saving throw. (The homunculus will be fine—it only goes nuts when you die not when you're petrified.)
However, expect any plan like this to go horribly wrong.
1 The summoner seems powerful because most choices are good choices. The summoner still pales before full casters. (Although some do call the summoner a full caster in 2/3 clothing because of the way its spell list is organized.)
2 The most extreme measure being killing the summoner, obviously.
3 Okay, not that last one.