Arcane Thesis

During your studies to become a full-fledged wizard, you
produced a thesis of unique magical research on one of a
variety of topics. You gain a special benefit depending on
the topic of your thesis research. The arcane thesis topics
presented in this book are below; your specific thesis
probably has a much longer and more technical title like
“On the Methods of Spell Interpolation and the Genesis
of a New Understanding of the Building Blocks of Magic.”

Improved Familiar Attunement

You’ve long held that fine-tuning the magic that bonds
wizard and familiar can improve the mystic connection,
compared to the safe yet generic bond most wizards
currently use. You’ve formed such a pact with your familiar,
gaining more advantages from it than most wizards. You
gain the Familiar wizard feat as a bonus feat. Your familiar
gains an extra ability, and it gains an additional extra
ability when you reach 6th, 12th, and 18th levels.
Your connection with your familiar alters your arcane
bond class feature so that you store your magical energy
in your familiar, rather than an item you own; you also
gain the Drain Familiar free action instead of Drain
Bonded Item. Drain Familiar can be used any time an
ability would allow you to use Drain Bonded Item and
functions identically, except that you draw magic from
your familiar instead of an item.

Metamagical Experimentation

You’ve realized that the practice known as metamagic is a
holdover from a time long ago, when wizards had to work
out their own spells and variations rather than rely on spells
recorded by others and passed down over the years. This
allows you efficient access to various metamagic effects.