Sphinx
| Sphinx | |
|---|---|
| - | |
| Type | Boss |
| Weak To | - |
| Resists | - |
| Drops | Key of Sagacity |
| Quests | A Game of Wits |
The Sphinx is an intelligent monster with the body of a lion, the head and chest of a woman and great feathered wings. Rather than fighting on sight, she challenges the Arisen with riddles and rewards correct answers, first at the Mountain Shrine in Vermund and later at the Frontier Shrine in Battahl, in the side quest A Game of Wits.
Sphinx Lore
The Sphinx is a wily creature that prefers a contest of wits to a contest of strength. She guards a store of treasure that can only be won by solving her riddles.
How to Beat the Sphinx
Each riddle allows a single answer, and a wrong one ends the game, after which the Sphinx leaves for good. She can also be fought, either instead of answering at the Mountain Shrine or once the riddles are done. In battle she relies heavily on spells, and only her beastly parts, the lion's body, legs, tail and wings, should be struck; blows to her human head and chest make her give up the fight and fly away, taking the rewards with her. The Unmaking Arrow, won from one of her own riddles, kills her outright when loosed at her. Defeating her yields the Key of Sagacity, which opens the great chest behind her and its Eternal Wakestone.
Where to Find the Sphinx
The Sphinx waits at the Mountain Shrine north of the Ancient Battleground, reached through Worldsend Cavern and the Shrine Corridor. After her first riddles are solved she flies to the Frontier Shrine in Battahl, west of Checkpoint Rest Town along the river, where the rest of A Game of Wits plays out.
Sphinx Locations
| Name | Type | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Shrine | Dungeons | Vermund |
Sphinx Quests
A Game of Wits begins at the Mountain Shrine in Vermund, where the Sphinx challenges the Arisen to a contest of riddles, many of which send the Arisen travelling in search of the answers. Partway through, the Sphinx moves to the Frontier Shrine west of Checkpoint Rest Town to pose the rest, and the contest ends in a battle with the Sphinx itself.
Sphinx Drops
| Name | Image | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Key of Sagacity | 
|
Valuables |
All Monsters
Bosses
| Name | Image | Weak To |
|---|---|---|
| Armored Cyclops | - | - |
| Chimera | 
|
- |
| Cyclops | 
|
Lightning |
| Dragon | - | - |
| Drake | 
|
Ice |
| Dullahan | 
|
Holy |
| Golem | 
|
- |
| Gorechimera | - | Holy |
| Goreminotaur | - | Fire |
| Griffin | 
|
Fire |
| Grim Ogre | - | Fire |
| Lesser Dragon | - | Ice |
| Lich | - | Holy |
| Medusa | - | Lightning |
| Minotaur | 
|
- |
| Ogre | 
|
- |
| Sphinx | - | - |
| Talos | 
|
- |
| Wight | 
|
Holy |
Monsters
| Name | Image | Weak To |
|---|---|---|
| Asp | - | - |
| Bandit | - | - |
| Bat | - | - |
| Chopper | 
|
- |
| Coral Snake | - | - |
| Crow | - | - |
| Garm | - | - |
| Goblin | 
|
- |
| Gore Harpy | - | Fire |
| Harpy | 
|
- |
| Hobgoblin | 
|
- |
| Knacker | 
|
- |
| Leapworm | - | - |
| Lost Mercenary | - | - |
| Magma Scale | - | - |
| Ooze | - | Fire |
| Phantasm | - | - |
| Phantom | - | - |
| Purgener | - | - |
| Rattler | 
|
- |
| Redwolf | - | - |
| Saurian | 
|
- |
| Serpent | - | - |
| Skeleton | 
|
- |
| Skeleton Lord | - | - |
| Slime | 
|
Ice |
| Sludge | - | Ice |
| Spider | - | - |
| Stout Undead | - | - |
| Succubus | - | - |
| Undead | 
|
Fire, Holy |
| Venin Harpy | - | - |
| Warg | - | - |
| Wolf | 
|
- |
