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| creator(s)= [[Cupida Hartnell|Professor Hartnell]] | | creator(s)= [[Cupida Hartnell|Professor Hartnell]] | ||
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| first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'' | | first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Euclidean Plane (short story)|The Euclidean Plane]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'' | |||
| copyright= [[Aristide Twain]] | | copyright= [[Aristide Twain]] | ||
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}}The '''Mechanical Sphinx''' was a creation of [[Cupida Hartnell|the Creator]] of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]], a giant robotic sphinx designed to guard the [[Cupid Archives|Archives]] of the [[Cupid Homeworld]] from [[Chronon Flea]]s. | }}The '''Mechanical Sphinx''' was a creation of [[Cupida Hartnell|the Creator]] of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]], a giant robotic sphinx designed to guard the [[Cupid Archives|Archives]] of the [[Cupid Homeworld]] from [[Chronon Flea]]s. | ||
The Sphinx was “enormous, with a copper sheen to match that of the [[Clockwork Cherub]]s and a mouth full of fangs”. | == Description == | ||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
The Sphinx was “enormous, with a copper sheen to match that of the [[Clockwork Cherub]]s and a mouth full of fangs”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
=== Personality === | |||
The Sphinx was sentient and capable of being reasoned with, although it rarely spoke and even more rarely knowingly let anyone enter the Archives without eating them — most people who wanted to visit them, including the librarian himself, [[Bibliophile-962]], usually had to sneak past the Sphinx using secret passageways. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
== Biography == | |||
At some point, the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] became frustrated with having to sneak past the Sphinx even to consult routine [[Cupid Fact File]]s, and resolved to start retrieving their paper files from the Archives and digitising them in the form of a browsable archive. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Euclidean Plane (short story)|The Euclidean Plane]]'') | |||
Despite its usual mores, the Sphinx let [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]], [[Juliet-178]] and [[Arganthone-056]] into the Archives in December 2020 in exchange for a promise of a Christmas gift, when they were looking for a way to thaw out [[Madame Tarsa]] from a magical block of ice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
The Sphinx was present at the [[Christmas|Christmas party]] organised in December 2021 in the Cupid Homeworld by [[CS-NA]], ending up in a friendly sparring match with [[Madame Tarsa]], [[Joybuzzer]] and [[the Frost King]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | The Sphinx was present at the [[Christmas|Christmas party]] organised in December 2021 in the Cupid Homeworld by [[CS-NA]], ending up in a friendly sparring match with [[Madame Tarsa]], [[Joybuzzer]] and [[the Frost King]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | ||
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[[Category:Robots]] | [[Category:Robots]] | ||
[[Category:Cupid Homeworlders]] | [[Category:Cupid Homeworlders]] | ||
[[Category:Creations of Cupida Hartnell]] | [[Category:Creations of Cupida Hartnell]] | ||