This was an episode with tonnes of details to like. It’s nice to finally meet a canonical sphinx—this has me looking up my notes from when I wrote Chapter 2 of Time on Their Hooves. Of course we always knew a magical land of ponies and griffons must have them. The human-headed version of ancient Egypt wouldn’t fit, so the Southern Equestrian variety seems to be a cross between a pegasus and a giant ferocious kitty.

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