Animate Dead Pools and Undead Mastery Question

[Silva Stormrage]

Hello, I have a few rules I need clarifications on while working on a build.

Assuming a build of Dread Necromancer 8/ Cleric 5.

1: Would I have two animate undead pools? One for dread necromancer levels one for cleric levels?

2: Would the Dread Necromancer's undead mastery ability effect the cleric's animate dead pool if he has a different pool? The ability just says that you get it 4 + charimsa modifier hd per class level whenever you cast animate dead. Not wether or not the spell was from the Dread Necromancer's spell list.

So the total pool would be 2 * (8 * (Charisma Modifier + 4)) Hd?

Thanks for the help.

[Flickerdart]

Animate Deadpools? This would be the best ability ever, forever.

You have two caster levels - a DN one and a Cleric one. So a DN spell would refer to your DN CL and a Cleric spell to your Cleric CL, meaning that logically they would stack. The Undead Mastery ability doesn't care about that, though, so you should get it for both.