Ranger Archetype: Spirit Listener

Here's a hybrid archetype I made long ago on the Paizo boards. It was part of my attempt to convert another of the Cyborgs... 005!

The team's strong guy is strong in soul as he is in body. Proud of his Apache heritage, he is always in contact with the spirits of nature, and this makes Ranger one of his chosen classes. (As for the second... we'll see another time...). At the same time, I felt that with the Advanced Class Guide rules out, the Spirit Ranger archetype needed an updating. Here's the result.

Spirit Listener (Ranger)

A spirit listener learns how to commune with the spirits who inhabit the lands he has sworn to protect. Reflective and wise, this shamanic ranger acts as a true intermediary between man and nature.

Spirit Bond (Ex): At 4th level, instead of forming a bond with his hunting companions or an animal companion, the spirit listener forms a bond with the spirits of nature dwelling in his favored terrain. He chooses one shaman spirit related to his first favored terrain. He adds that spirit’s 1st–4th level spirit magic spells to his ranger spell list, and can cast these spells spontaneously sacrificing a spell slot of equal level. These are the choices of spirits dwelling in each terrain:

Cold: Mammoth, Waves

Desert: Flame

Forest: Nature, Wood

Jungle: Nature, Wood

Mountain: Stone, Wind

Plains: Mammoth, Nature

Planes: Heavens, Life

Swamp: Bones, Waves

Underground: Bones, Stone

Urban: Battle, Lore

Water: Waves

The spirit listener also gains the spirit ability of his terrain spirit. At 9th level, he gains one hex of his choice from the list of hexes available to his terrain spirit. At 16th level, he gains the greater spirit ability of his terrain spirit. The spirit listener doesn't need to be in his favored terrain in order to use these abilities. His effective shaman level for them is equal to his shaman level -3. This ability replaces hunter’s bond, evasion, and improved evasion.
Spirit–Wise (Sp): At 12th level, as long as he is within one of his favored terrains, the spirit listener can temporarily bond with a spirit related to that terrain. He gains access to one hex from the list of that terrain’s spirit for 24 hours, but the bond ends if he leaves the spirit’s terrain. If he is in his fixed spirit's permanent terrain, he can choose a second, temporary hex granted by that terrain's spirit.
The spirit listener can’t forge a temporary bond with more than one spirit at a time, and can’t bond with a new spirit before 24 hours are passed, even if the first bond ends before this time. The spirit listener doesn’t gain access to the spirit magic spells or abilities granted by his wandering terrain spirit.
At 17th level, the spirit listener needs no more to stay in one of his favored terrains in order to forge or maintain the bond with that terrain’s spirit. This ability replaces camouflage and hide in plain sight.