Temple of the Oracle

The Temple of the Oracle was the home of the oracle Cha Ni in one universe.

The Temple was located in the middle of windswept, snowy mountains, (PROSE: Paying It Forward) seemingly including Mount Penglai. (PROSE: How Jenny First Met…) It was “pristine” and “white”; an inscription spelled out in characters half a meter high was cut into the raw rock of the cliff underneath the temple, greeting all visitors. Cha Ni herself dwelled in an inner garden inside the Temple with “perfectly manicured plants and artistically arranged rocks and the water filled bamboo thing that went *doink*” (PROSE: Paying It Forward) as well as a bamboo stand and a koi pond; (PROSE: How Jenny First Met…) at least, that was where she entertained visitors. The Temple's location was a secret; she entertained only the worthy and other incarnations of herself, (PROSE: Paying It Forward) though some monks lived with her and tended to her needs, for example by cooking food for her and her visitors. One account suggested that the Temple was housed within its own pocket reality whose space-time make-up was noticeably peculiar, and that the mountains which seemingly surrounded the Temple on all sides were not technically “real”, depending on how one wanted to define the word. (PROSE: How Jenny First Met…)