Dantalios, The Broken Athlete

Once a peerless athlete, Dantalios fled from reality after he was transformed into a revolting monster by a hag’s transmorphic brew.

How to read this stat block

Summoning Rules^[T]

The following describes the requirements and rituals for binding Dantalios, The Broken Athlete.

Spirit Level: 1st
Constellation: Seer
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (CN)
Binding DC: 16
Totems: You gain a totem bonus on the spirit’s binding check if you meet some or all of these conditions. (+2 insight bonus for at least one, +4 for all)

• You place an athletic trophy that you honestly won into the center of Dantalios’s seal.
• You have a Charisma score of 16 or higher.
• Your combined Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution modifiers are equal to or greater than +10.

Ceremony: You perform grueling warm-up exercises within Dantalios’s seal, letting your sweat drip onto the ground.

Manifestation: Dantalios’s aberrant face appears within every bead of sweat upon your body. Your sweat slowly creeps together, forming an amorphous conglomerate that speaks to you in a watery, weary voice.

Granted Abilities

Dantalios, The Broken Athlete grants the following abilities.

Major Granted Abilities

Beating the DC by 10 or more grants access to the Capstone Empowerment

Speed of Dantalios: As a swift action, you gain a +30 bonus your speed until the end of the turn. If you possess multiple types of movement (such as climb or fly speeds), you must choose which movement type to apply this bonus to. You cannot apply this benefit to a movement mode that you do not possess. After using this ability, it becomes expended for 5 rounds.

Capstone Empowerment: When you use speed of Dantalios, all movement speeds that you possess are doubled.

Minor Granted Abilities

Fleet: While you are bound to Dantalios, your movement speed increases by 5 feet. You must show Dantalios’s sign in order to gain this benefit.

Great Charge: While you are bound to Dantalios, you can charge up to four times your speed during a charge attack.

Mighty Throw: While you are bound to Dantalios, you gain the benefits of Throw Anything. In addition, increase the range increment of all thrown weapons that you wield by 5 feet.

Wrestling Mastery: While you are bound to Dantalios, you receive an insight bonus on Escape Artist checks equal to half your binder level and you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when attempting to grapple an opponent or when making unarmed strike against a grappled opponent.

Signs and Influence

The spirit affects you in the following ways:

Physical Sign: Your legs become digitigrade, your hands

and feet grow vestigial, bear-like claws, and your skin becomes
coated with slimy scales. When you activate one of Dantalios’s granted abilities, your body oozes a putrid, yellow pus.

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