Lair of the Sphinx

Overview of the lair

The Lair of the Sphinx, also called the Ruined Temple and Strange Ruins, was the ruins of an Isu site located on the southern shore of Lake Kopais in Boeotia, Greece, which housed the Sphinx, a hybrid creature originating from the Isu's Olympos Project.

Within the ruins was a statue of a Sphinx standing on a pedestal, and around it were pillars with various pictographs. By night, the pillars lit up, and seemed to flare with unearthly fire.

History

During the Peloponnesian War, the site was visited Gorgias, a Boeotian historian and an ally of Pythagoras. He met there the Spartan misthios Kassandra, who had been sent by Pythagoras to retrieve an artifact needed to seal Atlantis.

While Kassandra was looking for the other half of the medallion apparently required to summon the Sphinx, the creature slew Gorgias. When Kassandra returned, she defeated the Sphinx by answering her riddles correctly. Kassandra then claimed the artifact masquerading as one of the Sphinx's feathers.

Gallery

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  Close up
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  A statue of the Sphinx in the ruins
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  Kassandra approaching the Sphinx
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  The Sphinx waiting for Kassandra's answers
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  The ruins at night
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  Kassandra touching one of the images

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey