[@AlexanderML]

Well here's my planned proposed race for you review.


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Race Name: The Sphinx
Other Names: Faceless Sphinx, Ghost Sphinx, Mirage Sphinx, Masked Sphinx.
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Race description: The Sphinx, or more aptly the Sphinges, was created as the third act of creation by X, God of Mysteries. Eternally connected to their creator, each is given a name, of which they are compelled conceal as they are bound to grant a single wish within their power to whoever calls them by their name. And yet they are also innately truthful, and must tell the truth. As such, they like their patron, speak in riddles. Offering a riddle in lieu of speaking their name to those seeking it to gain control over the Sphinx. And though they cannot lie and must grant a wish to those who call upon their hidden names, it does not mean they are without free agency to fulfill that wish in anyway they see fit. They are long-lived legendary lifeforms which may alter reality itself in ways a minor god can. Yet they too are mortal and can be killed, albeit with their god-like abilities, it is very difficult.

Biology: The Sphinx's body itself is selectively immaterial, the blue eagle-feathered wings and powerful lion-like body is straddles between incorporeal and corporeal as their beautiful manes wistfully fade away. Retractable claws match the golden colour of the only definitely solid piece of its existence: A golden mask. They lack eyes, ears, noses and mouths, and yet still retain their senses by a telepathic ability, but lacking such physical features they do not need to eat or drink, nor breathe, although they are capable of resting appearing as nothing more than their blank mask as the dematerialize themselves. It is ill advised to attempt to wear one, or wake one. Despite the odd biology, or rather lack of biology, Sphinges are able to mate, although the exact process is a considered a mystery, yet remember these beings can change reality as they please, as such producing offspring is nothing to question. Each Sphinx can live indefinitely, but most seem to enter a fugue state after the first five or six millennia, a Sphinx that has yet to live a their first millennia is considered a mere child. Death usually comes by destruction of the mask which contains their consciousness, and it is said their consciousness return to X as the god absorbs all the knowledge and secrets it has learned over the course of the Sphinx's life time.

Ecology: It is seldom to see a Sphinx outside of X's realm. Often residing in his great library and continuing their task of cataloguing all knowledge in existence itself. An undertaking tasked by X to be completed, both parties well knowing it is an impossible task, and yet was already done by the God in his second act of creation. As such it they have become in large the curators of his realm. They create the desert sands by carving out the writings within X's collection into massive blocks of stone, and then once a book has been fully transcribed the block is magically shrunk to the size of a grain of sand. Thus is X's realm able to record all that that was, is and possibly will be and conceal the endless knowledge outside the library the realm. As such they are keepers of the second greatest secret of their realm.

Society: There is no exact social structure to the Sphinges. Most outside of X's realm are solitary beings, and those within it serve beneath X. There is a general hierarchy between Sphinges dependent upon the one who can know the most names. The Sphinx which can know the names of other sphinges are allowed to take an administrative role in the task X has set before them, as opposed to being the workers by delegating. These are the Taskmasters, who rise above the workers to report to X when the god checks on the status of completion of the never-ending labor.
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