Dracorion, you do know that abyssals get familiars which are<em>ghosts</em>? And you do know that ghosts in creation very rarely die permamently? In addition to normal familiars what other solars get, abyssal can borrow sense of his familiar by spending 5m (instead getting 5m added to his pool from presence of familiar as trade off). Fun fact; familiars who are ghosts can dematerialize (and can materialize with proper survival tree charm).<br/><br/>That's why I was just saying the familiar would be better for all scouting purposes (crow attacking even mortal is pitiful, even if it's a ghost it cannot do much till materialized and even then beak and scratch and have inteligence of a normal animal as 1 dot familiar).