Dai'Wadeeyan
Sphinx
Creature name: Dai'Wadeeyan Sphinx - not bondable, only one left, location unknown
General
Info:
Guardians of the desert and mountain passes, the Sphinx were a dying race.
They lived long and bred slow. By the time the last male died only three females
remained: one lion type, one tiger type and one leopard type. The three females
gathered to mourn the loss of their last male but when that was finished,
they came up with a plan to try and save their race: they would breed out.
Anymore, most griffons were too proud to want to bother helping the sphinx, most actually considered the sphinx a mistake in the first place. The humans however weren’t nearly as rude and much easier to convince. Since the sphinx guarded the desert and mountain passes any human that wanted to pass had to answer a riddle. In old times if the human failed to answer the riddle correctly he would be eaten. With the new plan that the three females had come up with if the riddle was answered incorrectly the men had two choices: one, breed with the sphinx; or two, get eaten. Needless to say the men chose the first option.
Since humans breed much faster than sphinx each time this breeding would occur a child would result, up to once a year. Unfortunately, in the sphinx eyes, these children were not quite like their mothers. Instead of having the body of a big cat they had the body of a human. Also, with the exception of their tail, all fur had disappeared from their bodies although the color patterns still tinted the skin and determined their hair color.
Shortly
after this plan was put into effect the two oldest females died. This left
the lone lioness sphinx to finish alone. Each sphinx had borne 100 offspring,
one each year since the male’s death, and their numbers were growing
steadily. When she was certain that her and her companions’ children
were not in any danger of dying out the last sphinx left the planet in search
of a wizard who could create her a mate. To this day she still searches the
universe to no avail.