The Sphinx, General of Animals, each year selects the most beautiful Werelioness to be his bride. She lives with him for one year before returning to her tribe and bearing a little of Weresphinxes. Unlike werelions, weresphinxes have two forms, that of a golden winged lion, and that of a humanoid with a lion's head and great golden wings (and a body covered with yellow fur). Female Were-sphinxes stay with their tribe and become great heroine and mages, but males leave in order not to disrupt the normal tribal order. They go into the Burning Desert and take Hse'eliae wives, giving birth to the Sphinxkin, who are one of the tribe leaders of that groups of Elves. In this way, trade and cultural contact in maintained between the Elves and the WereLions.