(if I remember right) an outlander paladin's mount is summoned from the upper planes and it stays in the prime with the paladin for 2 hours/level...thus a 8th Lv paladin can have their mount up to 16 hours in a 24 hour day...and summoned creatures that enter Ravenloft cannot leave, so a paladin's mount would then be trapped in Ravenloft (?)
I can't remember of the paladin mount has the good subtype or not, but would it get a reality ripple? And would the powers of light allow the mount to be summoned? The Ravenloft PH 3.5 says (p. 50):
"Familiars and other companions brought in from other realms (that is, not native to the Ravenloft world) do not become dread companions. They retain their original alignments and other traits."
but unless the paladin's mount was with the paladin when he/she was brought into the demiplane, then does the mount become a dread companion when the paladin for the first time summons in in Ravenloft?
On a side note, I really dislike the dread companion template being added to a paladin's mount...when the LE dread paladin's mount commits a sin for it's master is the paladin's "paladinhood" threatened? Do dread companions in general force powers checks on their masters by their evil acts? It's basically stacking the deck even further against the paladin when it's own holy mount can spell his/her doom.
I'v been considering house-ruling the "dread companion paladin's mount" and instead give/make the mount a creature of the mists that he summons (giving it the "mist" subtype)...or possibly throwing out the rule all together...I dunno
