Pre'yep P'ang Monastery

Monastery, home to Pre'yep P'ang Monks. All visitors are expected to leave their weapons at the entrance for safekeeping.

The Pre-yep P'ang Monastery is supposedly located on a psionic source, though those unattuned to such things would never notice. Though this mysterious psionic energy cannot be harvested, monks find great solace in identifying and flowing the energy around them, using the practice to enhance their own patience, discipline, and abilities.

One particular cultural aspect unique to the Pre'yep P'ang Monks is the sport of Ki Emptying, wherein participants take turns identifying the ki of various living things. At the lowest levels, children are indugled by trying to identify their relatives, wrapped in a blanket, by their ki alone. More difficult rounds involve identifying species, differing races, and, most difficult of all, differentiating between two members of another animal (non-humanoid) species. Great Ki masters have been said to be able to identify inanimate objects by their ki, based on residual ki left by craftmasters.

Winners of the Ki-Emptying tournaments are allowed to particpate in nightly riddle-contests, while the less-practiced are required to study for the evening.

Several thousand years ago, the monastery was home to Coheed the Fallen, a great female monk who mastered the art of psionic materialisation. However, when she opted to leave the monastery to act as an advisor to an evil local lord of the time (under threat of the monastery's destruction), her name was forever tarnished. She is yet secretly revered by the young and fantastical monks, but older monks who have taken on the much more strict doctrine are still required to view Coheed's actions with contempt. Visitors are advised not to ask of such things, under penalty of being refused hospice.