Guarded to this day by the Obsidian Guard, the Andesite Pyramid is supposedly the burial site of the Sphinx of Jewels. Some believe this is a name or title bestowed upon one of the princes of the Eparapt Dynasty, but other stories point to this being the resting place of an actual sphinx that assisted several generations of princes of the previous dynasty.
The truth might be something else entirely – a few apocryphal tales speak of a potent psionic lich with the “Jeweled Sphinx headdress” who moved into this pyramid when it was completed but before a prince could be set to rest here and who manifests its foul will through the otherwise mindless-seeming Obsidian Guard (sixteen animated obsidian “statues” of warrior guards that defend the pyramid against…
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