Elder Evil Bonus Feats

[Endarire]

Greetings, all!

Elder Evils page 10 says that an intelligent creature who worships an Elder Evil gets a free bonus feat at L1 and one more per 5 HD he has.  These are [Vile] feats.  Must this creature meet all prereqs for said feats?

[zook1shoe]

I would assume yes, if you want to gain the benefits of the feats. Otherwise follow the standard rules for losing benefits of things you no longer meet the prerequisites to.

Say you fail to meet the requirements of some/all of them... You still have them, just don't gain any benefits until regain the prerequisites or do the Dark Feat Shuffle.

[phaedrusxy]

An expansion on this question: If I don't devote myself to an Elder Evil until later in life, after I meet many of the prereqs, do I still get the feats for my earlier levels? If so, can I use my current stats for qualifying for them? Or can I only consider what I had at the level I'm getting them for?

For example, I'm level 5, and decide to devote myself to an Elder Evil. Can I take Dark Speech for the bonus feat at level 1 (it requires a base Will save of +5, which I have now, but didn't at level 1)?

[zook1shoe]

I don't see why not?

[Kethrian]

Yes, you should assume that you must meet all prerequisites when you get to pick bonus feats, because ignoring them is the exception to the rule.

It states, "Doing so grants the creature one bonus feat, plus an extra bonus feat for every five character levels or Hit Dice. These bonus feats must be selected from among the vile feats given in the accompanying table."  To me, that reads that you get all those feats at once, plus other bonus feats later as you gain more Hit Dice.  And it tells you that you can only pick from the vile feats on the table on the next page.  Deformity feats are not in the vile section, so they would not be eligible feats.