I'm looking for a way to have an animal companion with classes other than druid or ranger, for example a paladin that fights with a trained hawk. I'm all for multiclassing if need be, but I'm looking for other ways as well, through feats if necessary. I'm not really worried about min/max stats or optimized builds.


Question: Alternative of "unvalidated"
Answer: Those who say unvalidated (never having been validated) is "not a word" are simply being prescriptive, outdated, and pedantic. It's been used increasingly over the past century (the chart represents a total of 34,000 instances in print).



I don't see any problem at all with the word, which is clearly distinguishable from invalidated (having been been checked and failed validation). If OP wishes to avoid unfounded allegations of illiteracy though, he might wish to consider unverified as a less contentious alternative.