Hogwash

Question: In the Ragnarok book, Freyr's boar Gullinbursti is listed as a creature/relic, and is described as a nemean boar that gives Freyr access to Sun and Animal Purviews. My question is would a Creature/Relic similar to Gullinbursti (i.e. a Creature that gives access to Purviews) be a suitable birthright for a scion, and if so how would you distribute birthright dots for such a thing?

Especially for a beginning Hero, I'd probably recommend against it. It's not that it's something I'd say is impossible, or even a bad idea; it's just probably not worth it.

When you're statting a Creature, you usually want its points to go into making it an awesome Creature; you want it to be strong, sturdy, probably have a few powers, and so forth. But since the maximum level for starting Birthrights is 5 dots, you've got a finite number of Birthright points to dump into it, and if you blow two of them on putting purviews on the animal, that doesn't leave too many left over to put into making it badass. It'll always be less powerful than if you'd just put five points into making it cool and put the two purviews somewhere else.

Putting purviews directly on a Creature or Follower also has the potential to be inconvenient for the Scion, which is something you might want to avoid for characters; if the animal happens to go missing or die in combat, I'd assume he'd instantly lose access to that purview until he managed to find or resurrect it, which could be a serious problem in the meantime. Especially if you didn't have as many points to put into making sure it was an indestructible monster-beast, having to keep it alive and with you no matter what's going on could get old pretty quickly.

I totally see why Gullinbursti is presented that way in Ragnarok; he's always described as golden and glowing, and the boar's presence is one of the major reasons that a lot of scholars believe Freyr was a sun-god. There's nothing wrong with him having a Creature that gives a purview (it's not like Gullinbursti really does anything else), nor with a Scion doing so if you really want him to for flavor, mythic significance or just because you think it's cool. But if you're looking to make the most effective use of your Birthright points, I'd suggest just making the Creature as badass a creature as it can be, and putting the purviews on some other relic, perhaps whatever relic summons the critter in the first place. Not only does that keep them connected, but I think most STs wouldn't bat an eye at a stunt that described the creature in some way that connected it to the purviews it shares a relic with.