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Sphinx's Riddles

By Afternoon Cat

Solutions, rewards and gradually easier tips. All hidden behind spoilers so you can try your best first.

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Category: Characters, Loot, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Inn Save, Fast Travel and Other Info

1st Shrine

2nd Shrine

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Inn Save, Fast Travel and Other Info

The game uses autosave and that can mess things up if you fail a quest. Inn saves are treated as checkpoint saves that cannot be autosaved over. If you fail a riddle and want to try again, use the cliff nearby and select the last inn save in game over screen menu.

Bring at least one portcrystal that you can leave at the shrine and a lot of ferrystones because the riddles make you travel a lot.

You can fail in the first set of Riddles and do them in any order. Second batch is done in random order and failing results in Sphinx leaving.

There is one riddle with a time limit.

1st Sphinx shrine location: Cave that leads to the Mountain Shrine is behind the ruined fortress north of Checkpoint Rest Town. Climb to the top of the fortress and then over the back wall. Cave has a lot of treasures and a boss at the end before you reach the shrine.

1st Shrine

Riddle of Eyes

Tip 1: There are more than one red chests in the dungeon, one of them has a rare item.
Tip 2: It's somewhere you wouldn't expect the most valuable treasure to be.
Tip 3: It's in the first half of the dungeon.

Solution: The Sealing Phial is in a chest above the entrance doorway.
Reward: Wakestone and you get to keep the Sealing Phial

Riddle of Madness

Tip 1: It is asking you to bring a person.
Tip 2: You can bring someone who is near or use ferrystone to bring someone to the shrine.

Solution: Bring any NPC to the pedestal, it can be your pawn. You can even bring multiple NPCs for different dialogue.
Reward: Portcrystal

Riddle of Wisdom

Tip 1: You need to seek out a pawn.
Tip 2: Make sure they are a "Parent".
Tip 3: Visit Harve's rift stone if you have not done that already.

Solution: Bring a pawn with name "SphinxParent" to the pedestal. Quickest way is to use Vernworth riftstone and look at the most popular pawns.
Reward: 1200 Rift Coins

Riddle of Conviction

Tip 1: It is asking you to bring an item that is very valuable to you.
Tip 2: It's best to be honest with this riddle.

Solution: Give any item, it is then copied.
Reward: Copy of the offered item (and you get to keep the original item)

Riddle of Rumination

Tip 1: Search the locations you explored at the start of the game. Don't worry, failing this does not prevent you from continuing to the next riddles. In next playthrough you should make a note on which you picked up first.

Solution: Go to the place where you found your first Seeker's Token in that save file.
Reward: 3 Ferrystones

2nd Shrine

Riddle of Reunion

Tip 1: Second shrine is in Battahl.
Tip 2: it's in the northern mountain range of Battahl and can be seen from the distance.

Solution: Climb the water fall area in northern Battahl mountainside, go about half way through the mountain path and take the turn at the middle where there are ruins and a collapsed pillar.
Or if you're adventurous, you can catch a ride from it. Grab hold when it's ready to fly away and climb to it's back. If you're careful you can stand to regain stamina, be careful not to slide off.
Reward: 100 000 G

From now on the order of the riddles is randomized. You can check which one you currently have in the quest log.

Riddle of Recollection

Tip 1: Finding the second shrine counts as a riddle. It also counts failed riddles.
Tip 2: Previous location had five chests, five riddles. Then add how many you have solved at this shrine.

Solution: No one solution because the riddle order is randomized. Count the completed riddles in quest log and bring that number of statues to the pedestal area.
Reward: Unmaking Arrow

Riddle of Differentiation

Tip 1: Use your History NPC page to search NPCs you have encountered.
Tip 2: He lives in Checkpoint Rest Town.
Tip 3: He has a twin, so take a good look on who you are taking to the Sphinx.

Solution: He lives in Checkpoint Rest Town, on the Battahl side of the gate. He usually walks along the main road. You can grab him and use a ferrystone to teleport him to the shrine.
Reward: Whimsical Daydream

Riddle of Futility

Tip 1: You can clear the road of enemies before carrying the pot. The pot location does not change if you fast travel, meaning you cannot teleport it or carry it with oxcart.
Tip 2: Clever use of an item saves you a lot of time.
Tip 3: You can use an item you got from earlier riddle.

Solution: You can either carry the pot to Bakbattahl or take Maurits with you with a ferrystone or the Sealing Phial. He has different dialogue for each option.
Reward: Eternal Bond

Riddle of Contest

Tip 1: Get him off balance first.
Tip 2: Use the environment to your advantage.

Solution: Grab him and send him flying from the cliff.
Reward: Ring of Ambition

The Last Riddle

Tip 1: Kill the Sphinx. Attack it before it flies away. Multiple hits are required so use quick attacks.
Tip 2: The pot you delivered, mural at Mountain Shrine and mural in Bakbattahl give hints on how to fight her and what the reward will be.
Tip 3: Pawns may be in the way in this riddle. You can order them to wait and stay out of the way.

Solution: Only attack it's lion body parts and wings. If you hit the head or chest, it will fly away and leave permanently. Battle alone if possible, pawns can mess up this fight. You can also use Unmaking Arrow when it's flying away, but do not shoot the arrow until it's airborne.
Reward: Eternal Wakestone and money

13 Comments

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Afternoon Cat [author] 15 May @ 2:58pm

I'll add the travel tip to the guide!
I'll have to try to get that ending for the quest next time, thanks for the tip!

Tumblyweeds 26 Apr @ 3:07am

Breaking News: it is possible to get kill credit for the sphinx without her ever flying away.

Vocation: Warfarer. Equipped bow and daggers. Used only daggers' basic attack - and only on her hindquarters. Commanded pawns to wait; mage pawn still healed.

When Sphinx's health bar reached zero, she said some approving things and then dissolved into golden sparkles. She never tried to fly away, and I got credit for "killing" her.

No need to try and "shoot her down" because she never flew away.

Hope it helps. :)

Mahoro 20 Apr @ 7:26am

Riddle of Reunion can also be solved by riding on the Sphinx's back as she's getting ready to fly away.

Just quick run back and grab her to climb on her back. Once you're on her back, you can let go to stop your stamina from draining.

Once you reach Battahl, she'll start flying into a mountain cliff, this sign is the part where you should grab onto her again, as she's going to go through a cave system while ascends towards the shrine.

Afternoon Cat [author] 16 Apr @ 1:36pm

I have added your suggestions and added to previous tips.

Afternoon Cat [author] 16 Apr @ 1:27pm

Maybe they put the effect in case the player accidentally hits it, so it doesn't aggro and leave for a simple mistake.

LeonserGT 16 Apr @ 6:20am

Oh yeah, also forgot to point out that she has palladium on her that tanks first few strikes, just like your own from mage class

the Reverend Lord Percules IV 15 Apr @ 2:08pm

If you're prone to violence, after completing all of the riddles ensure she starts flying away BEFORE using an unmaking arrow on her, otherwise she'll just tank it and leave requiring you to start a new game to kill her

LeonserGT 15 Apr @ 8:12am

Also worth noting that the moniker system itself might be confusing, because it basically works as a name placeholder so to speak for any languages other than pawn's author selected one, so if the game chooses to show you the actual primary name written by player for a pawn - there's no place in the interface (or I haven't found it?) where you can check their moniker, as a result, if your game is in English, a lot of those pawns will probably have their written names, however they would still be correct because their moniker is sphinx-related . The easiest way to see this is to switch language - and you will notice even your arisen and main pawn will change names to monikers.

^^^ basically that was very elaborate way of saying don't be surprised if you see many non Sphinx related names there if you're on English

LeonserGT 15 Apr @ 8:06am

Yeah, every riftstone outside of major cities have only limited selection of pawns, usually have some specific modifiers like "find kindhearted pawns" or "pawns with quest set" or "female pawns of large stature", etc.
The one in Harve is "find pawns with unique moniker" which are all "SphinxMother", "SphinxFather" or "SphinxParent", made specifically for this riddle - also after activating it, you can access that specific modifier from any great riftstone in two capitals.

Afternoon Cat [author] 15 Apr @ 7:50am

Alright, I added the first two suggestions. Statue suggestion is included in the solution.

Yeah, the pot riddle is a bit troll riddle, but on my first character I did it the painful way and I wanted first to add my method as a tip because I guess many will try carrying it first before realizing it can't be this difficult. I got different dialogue from that trip at least

Can you elaborate on the last one, is there something different about Harve riftstone compared to others? I teleported to Vernworth to find a correct named one on my second playthrough. I think any major town rift stone will do. Strangely on my first character I had a correctly named pawn with me when I got this riddle.

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