Having seen a bunch of his creations I fear PhaedrusXY. I don't know which character he's playing but ... (shudder).
Thanks.
I've actually been second guessing myself. I didn't really have time to make a new character from scratch, and so recycled one that I'd made for an old game, but never got to use. It's heavily based on one of VennDygrem's old characters that he played in a (brief) PbP we were both PCs in, in fact.
Now I'm wishing I'd made use of some of the following (maybe in combination):
1) A paladin with the weird substitution level that basically gives him a dragonborn horse mount.
2) A soulbow with the Wild Cohort feat (and some kind of flying animal cohort).
3) Something with Vow of Poverty.