Sphinx Locations and Riddle Solutions

Find the Sphinx in Dragon's Dogma 2! This guide details all Sphinx locations, including the Mountain Shrine and Frontier Shrine, and provides solutions to every riddle.

The first five riddles that the Sphinx poses aren’t too difficult to complete once you know what to do, but you’ll need to come prepared if you want to avoid having to travel back and forth. In short, you’ll need the following things to complete the first set of riddles with as few trips as possible:

• A pawn with the “SphinxParent” moniker
• x1 Portcrystal

The Portcrystal is actually more of an optional item that you’ll only need if you don’t intend to complete the first couple of riddles upon first meeting the Sphinx. This is because she’ll give you a Portcrystal as a reward for completing the Riddle of Madness, so if you’re willing to stay until you complete that riddle, you needn’t bring one of your own. The Portcrystal isn’t essential to complete the riddles, but it will massively speed things up since you can place it at the Mountain Shrine, then return to it using a Ferrystone whenever you need to come back. There’s at least one riddle that will require you to leave the Mountain Shrine to complete, so if you want to avoid making the trek multiple times, you should place a Portcrystal at the Mountain Shrine as soon as possible.

A pawn with the “SphinxParent” moniker can be found at specific types of Riftstones, namely a Riftstone of Fellowship, one of which can be found northeast of Checkpoint Rest Town, and another at Harve Village. You’ll need to go to one of these and recruit a pawn with the SphinxParent moniker before you visit the Sphinx if you want to save some time. Some Riftstones, such as the large one in central Vernworth, can be used to access Linked Riftstones that allow you to attune the Riftstone to a particular type, so long as you’ve found one of that type already in the wilderness. You can check for a SphinxParent pawn at one of these if you’re not close to Checkpoint Rest Town or Harve Village.

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First Sphinx Location – Mountain Shrine, Vermund

To start the quest associated with the Sphinx - A Game of Wits - you first need to find her at the Mountain Shrine in northern Vermund, northwest of the Misty Marshes. You can see the exact location on our map here, but it’s not so easy to reach without going through the Ancient Battleground area first. You can reach this easily enough by taking the roads northeast of Checkpoint Rest Town, or you can take the path from the Misty Marshes by following the main road on its western side, then go through the Rock Wall Berme cave to emerge on the other side, not far from the Ancient Battleground site.

The Mountain Shrine can be found to the northwest of the Misty Marshes in Vermund.

Ancient Battleground and Worldsend Cavern Exploration

The path through the Ancient Battleground is fairly linear, so you can explore it thoroughly to ensure that you loot everything it has to offer, including a Makeshift Vault Key which you can use to open the basement beneath the kitchens at Vernworth Castle, leading to a secret storeroom with some valuable loot, including a Ring of Reassurance, Daughter of the Evening shield, and Wyrmhunter’s Cloak.

Once you’ve explored everything here, go to the northernmost point of the crumbling keep on the Ancient Battleground site to find the entrance to Worldsend Cavern. All you need to do from here is follow the path through the Ancient Ruins, then on to the Shrine Corridor and eventually the Mountain Shrine, where the Sphinx can be found. It’s possible to avoid the Ancient Battleground altogether by climbing the hills northwest from the Misty Marshes if you choose to take that route, but you’ll miss out on the significant rewards that you can gain from exploring the Ancient Battleground this way, including the valuable loot in the Vernworth kitchen basement.

When you first encounter the Sphinx at the Mountain Shrine, you’ll need to interact with her by standing on the pedestal in front of her to begin the riddles. If you want to see this quest through and complete all the riddles, you should never attack the Sphinx while you’re attempting to solve them and don’t try to open the locked chests until you’ve solved the associated riddle. If a chest can be opened, the pink eye on it will be absent.

First Set of Sphinx Riddle Answers

Now that you know where to find the Sphinx at her first location, we’ll go through each of the five riddles that can be solved here. Make sure that you’ve read the above information so that you’ve come prepared with at least a Golden Trove Beetle and a pawn with the SphinxParent moniker!

Riddle of Eyes Solution

The Riddle of Eyes is as follows:

“Our eyes are our allies, yet oft do they betray, for eyes tell lies, so I advise, and thence do lead astray. Yet, how will your eyes advise you? Venture through yonder door, and retrieve that which is of greatest value.”

This first riddle sets the tone of the others, beckoning you to explore the cave through the door that the Sphinx indicates, just to the right down the steps from where you came up to meet her. The cave is filled with goblins and hobgoblins, and a few chests with loot, but the final chest contains only a Rotten Apple. You might think that this is the item you need to give to the Sphinx, but it’s not so poetically complicated as that. Instead, you can find the item that you need - a Sealing Phial - in a chest located just above the entr