Statue item riddle

This riddle is about the eleven statues which need a certain item to be placed in the bowl they are carrying. The eleven times which can be found in the chest in the middle of the room are:


 * Mirror,


 * Jar of water,


 * Grinning skull,


 * Hourglass,


 * Statue of gagged man,


 * Star medallion,


 * Sun medallion,


 * Sword medallion
 * A pair of boots
 * Sun dial
 * Golden circle
 * Letter, doesn't count.

Riddles
Starting by the statue highest in right south corner of the room, going clockwise.

Riddle 1
''Try to defeat me but try in vain. When I win, I end your pain.''

Solution: Grinning skull

Motivation: This riddle is about death. The skull is related to death.

Riddle 2
''I have two heads but one body. The more I stand still, the faster I run''.

Solution: Hourglass

Motivation: When the houglass stands still, the sand will run the fastest from one side to another.

Riddle 3
Always I do tell the truth, yet cannot speak. Look to me and see what really is.

Solution: Mirror

Motivation: A mirror shows how you look and is never wrong.

Riddle 4
Name me and so shall 'you 'break me.

Solution: Statue of gagged man.

Motivation: The man is probably gagged to torture him. Torturing is the process of breaking a man's will.

Riddle 5
''I will save yor life, but yet you can die by me. I settle disputes yet not with words''

Solution: Sword medallion.

Motivation: A sword can save you and it can kill you. It's never used to solve a dispute with words.

Riddle 6
''To those within the dungeon I am joy. To those fully beneath my gaze, I can be Hell.''

Solution: Sun medallion

Motivation: The sunlight is pleasant for prisoners locked up in some dark room. The sun in a desert is deadly.

Riddle 7
''I have seen the mountains rise. I have seen the fall of Netheril''. You shall die but still shall I march on.

Solution: Sun dial.

Motivation: With a sun dial the movement of the sun can be followed.

Riddle 8
''Here, in this place, you swallow me. Yet, if I were more, I would swallow you.''

Solution: jar of water.

Motivation: In small amounts you can swallow water. An large amount of water (ocean) can swallow you easily.

Riddle 9
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, all day if we are bitterly pressed; yet this will I say - we are full at day, and empty when we go at rest.

Solution: pair of boots.

Motivation: Boots are under pressure when someone walks in them and almost nobody sleeps with his boots on, which means they are empty at night.

Riddle 10
''No beginning. No end''. I am a symbol of the world's cycles.

Solution: Golden circle

Motivation: A circle is continuous. You can't point out where it begins.

Riddle 11
At nigth I come without being fetched, at day I am gone without being stolen.

Solution: Star medallion

Motivation: Stars appear at night and are gone when the day is in.

Reward
20,000 experience points, Sapphire Stone, and a Dusty Rose Ioun Stone.MADE ARTIC