HYTHONIA AS A MYTHIC ENCOUNTER The medusa's s k i n cracks, turns a l ifeless gray, and s hatters!
Hythonia serves as a potent threat against even high The monster crumbles to dust-but what clatters to the
leve.1 characters, but you can increase the challenge by ground i s n 't scale and bone, but hollow stone. The sound
using the Shed Skin trait. When this happens, Hythonia
of rippl i n g coi l s precedes the medusa rising up anew, the
heals many of her wounds and slips away from danger,
last of her shed s k i n d ropping away, revealing gl iste n in g, un
and then she can choose one of her mythic actions when
she uses a legendary action. scarred sca les.
You might foreshadow Hythonia using her mythic trait
by describing her skin cracking and turning pale as she Fighting Hythonia as a mythic encounter is equivalent
suffers wounds. Read or paraphrase the following text to taking on two challenge rating 17 creatures in one
when Hythonia finally uses her Shed Skin trait: encounter. Award a party 36,000 XP for defeating Hy
thonia after she uses Shed Skin.