Location from Dune by Frank Herbert
The Bene Gesserit school planet — where Sisters are trained in the arts of voice, seduction, observation, and the slow manipulation of human genetics across millennia.
Wallach IX cultivates silence. The training halls echo with the sound of bare feet on stone and the low murmur of Voice exercises. The air smells of old paper, herbal infusions, and the sharp tang of the awareness-spectrum narcotics used in advanced training. Every room is slightly too cold — a deliberate choice to keep the mind alert. Beneath the monastery calm runs a current of absolute purpose. Every Sister here is being shaped into an instrument — of politics, of breeding, of the multi-generational genetic program that is the Bene Gesserit's true work. The gom jabbar test is administered here. Girls who fail do not leave.
Austere stone buildings set into hillsides, connected by covered walkways and meditation gardens. The architecture is deliberately plain — no ornamentation, no color. Training halls with high ceilings and bare floors. Libraries that stretch underground for levels. The landscape is temperate and unremarkable, as if designed to remove all distraction.
Also known as: the Bene Gesserit school, the Mother School