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<blockquote data-quote="Malvoisin" data-source="post: 2892509" data-attributes="member: 40128"><p>(OOC: Following is the generally-understood legend of Khubsheth and Ankharet. The PCs, as resourceful travelers to these lands, would be familiar with this tale. Feel free to incorporate any elements of it into your conversation. I should have shared this earlier, my apologies for overlooking it.)</p><p></p><p><em>On the edge of the mysterious Barren Hills, between the mountains and the Great Desert, there is a gigantic statue of a crowned gynosphinx, ancient beyond reckoning. At its feet, a great androsphinx known as Khubsheth the Prophet has dispensed counsel and prophecy to all who come to him for longer than mortal records can tell. Legend tells of a long-dead empire of sphinxes, ruled over for milennia by a great queen named Ankharet. She fell into darkness and her empire was shattered, as her subjects rebelled and cast her down. Unable to kill her, it is said they bound her beneath the statue, to wait for the foretold heroes who would be able to slay her and end her evil forever. Their empire in ashes, the sphinxes scattered to roam the world in bitter freedom - all but Khubsheth, who waits for his prophecy to be fulfilled.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malvoisin, post: 2892509, member: 40128"] (OOC: Following is the generally-understood legend of Khubsheth and Ankharet. The PCs, as resourceful travelers to these lands, would be familiar with this tale. Feel free to incorporate any elements of it into your conversation. I should have shared this earlier, my apologies for overlooking it.) [i]On the edge of the mysterious Barren Hills, between the mountains and the Great Desert, there is a gigantic statue of a crowned gynosphinx, ancient beyond reckoning. At its feet, a great androsphinx known as Khubsheth the Prophet has dispensed counsel and prophecy to all who come to him for longer than mortal records can tell. Legend tells of a long-dead empire of sphinxes, ruled over for milennia by a great queen named Ankharet. She fell into darkness and her empire was shattered, as her subjects rebelled and cast her down. Unable to kill her, it is said they bound her beneath the statue, to wait for the foretold heroes who would be able to slay her and end her evil forever. Their empire in ashes, the sphinxes scattered to roam the world in bitter freedom - all but Khubsheth, who waits for his prophecy to be fulfilled.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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