Answer:
Where on earth do the ways always blow from the south?
The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What are we?
What stays in one corner but travels around the world?
Sometimes you feel it weigh a ton. Yet it is nothing, but somehow still there. Makes you uncomfortable around anyone, But speak its name and it's gone.
The more you have of me, the less you see. Who am I?
What sphinxes employ and players enjoy.