Welcome to Eveline Temple

[Godai]

Eveline Temple

In the highlands of Godai, hidden away from the rest of the world, is the Eveline Temple, formerly the Delphic Temple. Named after a practicing order of female psychics known as the Eveline Order, its beautiful, old, stone pillars can be seen from most places in Oraclair Town.

Despite many parts of the once sprawling structure, which used to house dozens of women, having fallen to ruin, the temple is anything but a blight on the town and most towns people are actually quite proud to live in the shadow of a place with so much psychic connection and history. There is a steep incline up a hill that all who wish to make pilgrimage must climb. The steps are somewhat preserved, and time has resulted in many branching paths into the lightly wooded areas around it, carved by trainer and pokemon.

At the crest of this climb, nestled between two large stone peaks of this section of the northern mountains, the part of the temple that has been maintained by the shrinking Order remains a pale imitation to the glory from centuries before. The courtyard serves as a gym battlefield for all those daring enough to take on the powerful and well-renowned gym leader. Large marble pillars mark the boundaries of what is now used an arena for smaller battles, and the members of the Order maintain decorative foliage to keep the place feeling like home to them when they come as a part of their education. The pillars are bound to each other by stone beams across the top, (not dissimilarly from the parthenon in our world) but there is intentionally no roof, as the wonders of the universe should not be barred by human construct, according to their philosophy.

One path from this courtyard leads to a short half-kilometer hike to another arena, this one located in a deep quarry that can safely house more potentially destructive gym battles. This is, also, marked with pillars, but they often fall into disrepair due to the events that happen.

The other path leads into the mountain. The entire structure does appear to be man-made, but years of spotty maintenance has resulted in something that feels much more like a cave than a temple. The immense area is thought to have been carved by ancient psychics and their pokemon, as it would have been a major effort for humans of this time to carve out such a sprawling formation even with iron tools. The upper floors are nearly three square kilometers in area, and in the height of its use, might have even functioned similarly to a large village. There are high ceilings and usually sturdy floors, though some do give way to too-sure-footed trainers. The walls are lined with carvings and murals, some restored as best as possible, others quite archaic. There are five known floors to this temple, and each seems to be smaller than the floor above it. The top two floors are the ones that have been restored, with electric lights in most rooms and passages, and not-uncommonly trainers and scholars roaming around for their own reasons. Below them are three more floors, with known entrances to them being guarded by TIS officials that only permit those with an official gym badge.

These are much less hospitable and are home to far more powerful pokemon. There are also more archaeological secrets to behold. It isn’t uncommon that higher members of the Eveline Order make excursions down here to recover lost information about their heritage. There is even speculation that there may be more floors beneath the five known ones, though no one has found any concrete evidence of this.

In the time when humans were absent from the area, pokemon moved in and made this a home for themselves. Some of them have dug into the mountain more, others seem to live very monk-like existences, often meditating. The entire region is steeped in history and secrets, I wonder what could be hidden by these powerful psychic pokemon.

Common
Abra	Meditite	Bronzor	Ralts	Solosis
Spoink	Chingling	Natu	Drowzee	Unown
Munna	Woobat	Spinarak	Joltik	Diglett
Cubone	Geodude	Paras	Mime Jr.	Elgyem
	Spritzee		Rattata - Isdan

Uncommon
Golett	Exeggcute	Wynaut	Mr. Mime	Baltoy
Mienfoo	Grumpig	Duosion	Lunatone	Solrock
	Ariados	Dugtrio	Dedenne

Rare
Chimecho	Parasect	Claydol	Bronzong	Swoobat
Medicham	Marowak	Kadabra	Xatu	Kirlia
	Raticate - Isdan	Hypno	Mimikyu

Elusive
Alakasam	Munchlax	Riolu	Beldum	Golurk	Wobbuffet