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[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
The unit itself counts. You specified a spellcasting sphinx. My scenario would not say that a spellcasting sphinx is helpless unless it were paralyzed or otherwise rendered helpless.

Why is the sphinx more helpless when paralyzed than when not paralyzed? It's still just a hunk of rock. If the military units can't damage it during a battle while it's not responding, then it will wake up soon enough and start spellcasting again.

However, if a soulless has a month to rip apart a helpless sphinx...well, that soulless must have undead leadership or it wouldn't be on the battlefield at all. So the soulless and its undead leader slowly manage to chip away at the head of the sphinx, not sleeping because they are undead and require no sleep, over a period of an entire Calendar month, thereby expelling the vile spirit that inhabited the sphinx into the void.

They don't have a month though. They have only as long as it takes for the statue to wake up. And no matter how much it pounds away at a piece of rock, a soulless isn't going to damage it more than superficially with its fists. Especially when it's a piece of rock that automatically rebuilds itself within a months time.