Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-4010415-20181014160637

Glitchee123z wrote: Well I still have to disagree with Chishio. Just because it’s a sphinx doesn’t mean it has to live in the desert. Need I remind you it’s also a Grimm.

Need more proof? Just look at Ol’ Nuck. It’s based off of the Nuckelavee, which is said to live in the sea, yet the Grimm itself lived in a mountain cave.

So in my opinion, it doesn’t matter what the Grimm is based off of for it to live there. It just lives there.

And hell, manticores don’t live in tundras either, but Volume 6 is set in a tundra, where it’ll most likely appear. And by extension, it means the Sphinx will appear as well. I'm not saying it has to live in the desert. I'm saying that, with the way that Miles and Kerry's writing is, it doesn't strike me, thematically, as something that they would put in a snowy tundra.

Like, the Sea Feilong. Oftentimes, sea dragons are long and snake-like, much like an Asian-style dragon. Plus, the ship Blake was on had to have passed by Anima on its way to Menagerie, and Anima is largely Asian-inspired. Thus, Sea Feilong.

Also, the Nuckelavee also went on land in its lore, so it wasn't restricted to the sea.

It just doesn't strike me as something that Miles and Kerry would do, so if they do actually do it, then I'll be surprised that they actually went with subverting an expectation that one would normally have for a sphinx-themed monster. That said, though, if there is a region in Anima that actually has Greek-inspired themes, a la Pyrrha, then having a Greek-style sphinx Grimm show up would make sense in terms of how Miles and Kerry typically are.