Suggestion: Instead of summoning an animal in front of the PC, the creature could be placed somewhere out of the player's field of view, and rush to his aid. I think that would be really neat, and much more in line with the concept of the original shout.

If this is already in the mod, I apologise. I haven't used your mod yet, but I plan to.

Thanks for the update

Minor question: When you say you need 5 dragon souls, does that refer to the storage counter?

And once the spell is active, does that mean I have to stockpile souls to get the benefits or will it consider every soul I acquire, even if I spend some?

Hmm... thought I noted it.

No, it counts the Misc Stat on how many dragon souls you've absorbed in total, not the huge count you end up accumulating because the game throws dragons at you like they're cliffracers.

My game just refuses to do that; the dragons are a myth in my game. All i'll get are the fixed encounters, so i'll never see the 50% reduction in cooldowns

It has been like that since release, and i'm still wondering why when everyone keeps saying there are more dragons than butterflies in Skyrim

Regardless, every bit that buffs Shouts helps