Any adventure with a living androsphinx?

QuaziquestGM

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My party's (orc wedding) dwarf (Clr3/ftr3/paragon3) has gotten it into his head to go looking for the Axe of the Dwarven Lords.

The party knows the location of a female sphinx who has given them information on locations of items in the past. The sphinx's price for the location of an artifact is the location of a suitable androsphinx. (My biological clock is going Tic.....)

The only adventure that I know of with an androsphinx in it is "one last riddle", but the sphinx in that one is dead.

So, any one know of an adventure with an (living, non-gay, hopefully handsome) androsphinx?
 

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Just out of curiosity, couldn't you place one in an existing adventure at your convenience (e.g. replace the gynosphinx in White Plume Mountain with an androsphinx) since you're the GM?
 

Five Coins for A Kingdom, by Allen Varney, has one (although he's part of a mated pair). I think it was M5 or so? You should be able to find it at RPGNow or the like. However, I don't think you will find this helpful, since this was an adventure for 30th level or so D&D characters.
 

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Legend tells of a long-dead empire of sphinxes, ruled over for millennia 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 that they bound her with great magic and buried her in a tomb, 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, save a single great androsphinx.

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. The heroes have come to visit Khubsheth, whether for counsel, prophecy or out of curiosity, but as soon as he lays eyes on them, he attacks! Upon his defeat, he tells them that they are the heroes foretold by the legend of Ankharet. Ankharet ruled over a long-dead empire of sphinxes, but she fell into darkness. Her subjects rebelled and cast her down, but were unable to kill her. It is said that they bound her with great magic and buried her in a tomb, to wait for the foretold heroes who would be able to slay her and end her evil forever. Kubsheth the Prophet tells the heroes that they must enter the tomb of the long-dead sphinx queen, kill her, and destroy her cursed crown, an artifact of tremendously evil power. As his blood seeps into the sands, a doorway opens at the base of the statue, leading down into darkness...
 

There is a riddling androsphinx in 'Pyramid', the first module in the Desert of Desolation series. With the Efretti encounter removed from the plot line, you could easily adapt it to a stand alone adventure.
 

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