Thread:ChishioKunrin/@comment-33544229-20181028190826/@comment-27404492-20181028201559

Elder/mature versions of Grimm tend to be more armoured, the Sphinx has less armour, the manticores have fire attacks and scorpion tails and they have short necks, the sphinx has a long neck, a snake tail and it has a sonic scream attack. I'll admit that the Sphinx's ability to command the manticores may be evidence it's a mature manticore, but it's equally likely that it could just be an ability the sphinx possesses, and that if there were say, griffins or nevermores there it would be able to command them.