Breeding seasons are an exciting time for all sphinxes. Couples of all kinds have the opportunity to bring new life into the world. With the blessings of the gods, any sphinx pairing has the opportinity to have children, though some pairings will require special items to help secure the gods' blessings. For normal couples, no breeding items are required to produce a cub.

The Breeding Season:
Breeding season in the Sphinxes adoptable uses a slot system. Every month, a limited number of slots become available. Hopeful couples will be entered into a breeding raffle run by Random.org to determine who wins the slots.

Once a slot is secured, a die roll is performed to see if the breeding was a success. Successful rolls will mean the couple will have a baby that season. Unsuccessful couples will receive no children that season. Married sphinxes have a greater chance of a successful pregnancy roll, as the gods looked more favorably on children being raised in homes with more than one parent. Married sphinxes have a total of a 65% chance of a successful breeding (%50 of a singleton, 10% chance of twins, 4% chance of triplets, and 1% chance of quadruplets) and a 35% chance of an unsuccessful pregnancy. Unmarried sphinxes have only a total of 25% chance of a successful pregnancy (24% chance of a single cub, a 1% chance for twins) and a 75% chance for no pregnancy. Items are only used up if a breeding was successful.

Once a female (or a male carrying a cub) successfully breeds, she cannot carry another cub for three more months. Males (or females) siring a cub have no restrictions. Once a player successfully claims a slot, they must sit out the next month's breeding season, whether their breeding was successful or not.

There are special breeding enhancement items that can alter your chances for a cub. These are listed below.

Greek and Netjer Breeding:
There is currently no way to breed Greek and Netjer babies. Greek and Netjer sphinxes may breed with Egyptian sphinxes, but the reulting babies will always be of the Egyptian body type.

The Genetics of Sphinxes:
For all breedings where no extra items are involved, all cubs are generated by the roll of the dice. Everything from mutations to coloration is decided randomly. For most mutations, they will pass on at a rate of 50% if one parent has the trait, or 100% if both parents have the traits. For Wings and Manes, because they are meant to be rarer, they will pass at 20% chance if one parent has the trait, and 40% chance if both parents have it.

There are special breeding enhancement items that can alter the appearance of your cub. These are listed below.

Growing Cubs:
Sphinxes have four life stages: Cub, Child, Teen, and Adult.

	The cub is the first stage of a Sphinx's life. All cubs are born with their eyes closed, but most of the inherited traits will be visible.
	There is no requirement to grow a cub to a child. You just submit the request to the artist who colored your cub, and it will be done in time.
	Information about growing your child stage sphinxes to teens will be released when the teen templates are finished. There will likely be some requirement for growing your teen to an adult. The class that your sphinx becomes depends mostly on the classes of the parents. There is a there is a large chance that the cub will fall into the same class as the parent of the same gender they are. There is also 30% chance of taking on class of the parent of the opposite gender, a 15% chance that they will gain a different class of the same level, a 3% chance that they will have a class of a lower level and a 2% chance that they will gain a class of a higher level. If they do gain a different class then their parents, it is randomly rolled... such is fate.

Breeding Enhancement Items:
Most of the time, a regular breeding will not require any items. But there are items you can choose to use to ehance your breeding. There are a variety of items, potions, and elixirs that all have different effects. Statues and other items may also be stacked upon one another to multiply their effect.

	The Barley item will guarantee a male offspring. You must have one for each cub you wish to guarantee in the case of multiples. The item is not used up if the breeding is unsuccessful.
	The Wheat item will guarantee a female offspring. You must have one for each cub you wish to guarantee in the case of multiples. The item is not used up if the breeding is unsuccessful.
	The Garland of Nephthys will allow a married sphinx to breed once outside of their marriage (the possible RP reasons behind this are left to the owners which can be everything from normal to magical.)
	Eating this dried fish (rumored to carry the fertility of Osiris) will grant your sphinx with great virility. The Fertility Fish can be used by any sphinx couple. If you have a breeding slot secured, this item will guarantee a successful pregnancy.
	The Aphrodisiac Lettuce may be used by any sphinx couple. It is ONLY to attempt to have an out-of-season breeding slot created for you. Your chances of a successful breeding are the same as during breeding season. Your Lettuce is used up whether your pregnancy was successful or not.
	This item grants the fertility and blessing of the White Bull. The Bull's Horn may be used by any sphinx couple. Using this item with a breeding slot will grant +1 cub to the litter's total if the pregnancy is successful. It will not be used up if the breeding is unsuccessful. A maximum of 3 Bull's Horns can be used on a single breeding.
	The Statue of Taweret is a statue for married couples only. If you have a breeding slot secured, this statue will guarantee you a successful pregnancy, and add one additional cub to your breeding. (Works like a Fertility Fish AND a Bull's Horn.) This statue will also allow an out-of-season breeding to be attempted with normal success rates. This will use up your statue whether the breeding was successful or not. (Acts as an Aphrodisiac Lettuce only.)
	The Statue of Bastet is for unnmarried sphinxes only. If you have a breeding slot secured, this statue will guarantee a successful pregnancy. (Acts as a Fertility Fish.) It can also be used to attempt an out-of-season breeding at normal success rates. Your statue will be used up whether the pregnancy was successful or not. (Acts as an Aphrodisiac Lettuce.)
	The Statue of Bes can be used by married or unmarried sphinxes. If you have a breeding slot secured, this statue will guarantee you a successful pregnancy, and add one additional cub to your breeding. (Works like a Fertility Fish AND a Bull's Horn.) This statue will also allow an out-of-season breeding to be atempted with normal success rates. This will use up your statue whether the breeding was successful or not.(Acts as an Aphrodisiac Lettuce only.) This is the only statue that will guarantee unmarried sphinxes have an additional cub if you use it with a normal breeding slot.
	The Statue of Hapy is required for sphinx couples that are same gender to breed. The blessing of Hapy will allow your same-gender sphinxes to have a genetic offspring of their own.
	A Paddle Doll is required for any undead sphinx to breed. This includes ka spirits, mummies, and vampires.
	Colored potions can be purchased and added to your breeding to alter the coloration of the cub. When you submit your breeding form, you can add into the notes how you would like your potion to be used. Colored potions come in blue (shown), yellow, green, red, purple, brown, black, and white.
	Patterned potions can be purchased and added to your breeding to alter the body pattern of the cub. When you submit your breeding form, you can add into the notes how you would like your potion to be used. Pattern potions come in tiger (shown), zebra, cheetah, jaguar, leopard, and ocelot.
	The clear potion is a special potion that will erase all the possible colors and patterns from both parents.
	The Elixir of Myrrh is a special elixir that has a special ability to allow the drinker to reproduce once without a mate. This isn't exactly 'cloning' and can still have variations from the parent, but it does open up interesting possibilities, and will also automatically passes on the traits of the parent. (Gender is still random which may exclude some gender specific traits.)
	The Elixir of Chaos, when used, will add one additional trait to the cub from all possible traits. The trait added is selected randomly.
	The Elixir of Moondust is the rarest of all elixirs. This elixir, when used, will allow the user to create a full custom cub whose traits, markings, patterns, gender, etc are all chosen by the user, so long as the outcome is possible from the combination of the parents. This elixir can only be used to affect the outcome of one cub from one breeding. Any additional cubs from the breeding will be rolled randomly as normal.