Around the year 868 AU, sphinxes throughout the continent watched harpies with growing concern. A power vacuum had been created by the fall of the dridder empire, and the “power-hungry vultures” seemed to be circling. The sphinxes were not interested in filling that void themselves, nor were they opposed to another empire rising. What the sphinxes could not abide was either of the ignoble harpy matriarchs asserting herself as the new empress. They established an Order, bindin