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Sphinx

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Sphinx

 

A composite animal with the face of a man or woman (albiet a distorted one), wings of a brightly colored parrot, and the body of a feline. They can't fly, but are excellent climbers and gliders.

 

Although often depicted as large as lions or bigger, Sphinxes are in fact, the size of housecats. Indeed, many of the Sphinx's traits are those of Cats, magnified. They are vain, spiteful, selfish, cruel, eccentric, insane, and destructive. Despite this, for reasons unexplainable, nobody holds these things against them.

 

Sphinx are often kept as housepets by little old ladies who don't know any better. They feed on two things: humans and books. They are able to absorb the knowledge in both to increase their intelligence. A Sphinx baby starts out with brains comparable to that of a normal cat, but consumption of more books and people can gradually increase their intelligence to the point where they can speak many different languages, and think on a level comparable or above that of Battal's most intelligent races.

 

Although they hunt for humans in packs, they will only kill a person if he fails to guess one of their riddles correctly, or if he displays the emotion of fear.

 

In Book 8, it would appear that Dame Walk had a pet Sphinx, although the text is vauge enough on this point that it could be interpeted that Dame Walk's pet was rather a cat named "Sphinx".

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