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They test challengers through lethal trials tied to knowledge, magic, and extraplanar access, destroying the unworthy or removing them to prevent further discovery. Sphinx behavior includes time-altering lair actions, age changes, initiative rerolls, plane shifting, and rare interactions. Androsphinx and gynosphinx variants expand these tests with fearsome roaring, displacement, riddles, puzzles, and knowledge-bargaining outcomes.","Sphinxes  \nIn sacred isolation, a sphinx guards the secrets and treasures of the gods. As it calmly regards each new party that comes before it, the bones of supplicants and quest seekers that failed to pass its tests lie scattered aromnd its lair. Ats great oings soeep along its Öanks, its tawny leonine body rippling with muscle and possessed of forepaws powerful enough to tear a humanoid in half.  \nDivine Guardians. Sphinxes test the worth of those who seek the treasures of the gods, whether forgotten secrets or mighty spells, artifacts or magical gateways. Creatures that choose to face a sphinx’s test are bound to that test unto death, and only those worthy will survive it. The rest the sphinx destroys.  \nSome sphinxes are high priests of the gods that create them, but most are simply embodied spirits, brought into the mortal realm by devout prayer or direct intervention. A sphinx maintains its vigil tirelessly, not needing to sleep or eat. It rarely engages with others of its kind, knowing no other life except its sacred mission.  \nMagical Tests. The secrets and treasures a sphinx guards remain under divine protection, so that when a creature fails a sphinx’s test, the path to the objector knowledge it guards vanishes. Even if a sphinx is attacked and defeated, a quester will still fail to gain the secret it sought—and will make an enemy of the god that placed the sphinx as a guardian.  \nBenign deities sometimes grant a sphinx the power to remove supplicants that fail their tests, transporting them away and ensuring that they never encounter the sphinx again. However, those who fail a sphinx’s test typically meet a gruesome end beneath its claws.  \nExtraplanar Beings. Mortals that encomnter sphinxes do so most often in ancient tombs and ruins, but some sphinxes can access extraplanar realms. A conversation with a sphinx that begins between tumbled stonewalls might suddenly shift to an alien locale, such as ali^e%sired game board or a damnting cliff that mmst be climbed in a howling storm. Sometimes a sphinx must be summoned from such an extradimensional space, with supplicants calling it from its empty lair. Only those the sphinx deems worthy gain admittance to its realm.  \nFallen Sphinxes. Whether through the weariness of the ages, regret at the slaughter of innocents, or dreams of worship by supplicants that attempt to bargain their way to knowledge, some sphinxes break free of their divine command. However, even if a sphinx’s alignment and loyalties drift in this way, it never leaves the place it guards or grants its secrets to any except creatures it deems worthy.  \nAndrosphinx  \nAn androsphinx bears the head of a humanoid male on its lionÌs bodq. Gmtoardlq grmff and dooncast, it often begins conversations with insults or negative obsernations. :eneath this grmff exterior, hooener, anandrosphinx has a noble heart. It has no wish to lie or deceive, but it doesn’t give away information readily, choosing its words as wisely as it guards its secrets.  \nAn androsphinx tests the courage and valor of supplicants, not only by forcing them to complete quests but also with its terrible roar, which echoes for miles as it terrifies and dea^ens nearbq creatmres. 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