'A literal jungle temple, filled with simian type aether beasts...why does that sound incredibly familiar?'
∆Probably because it sounds like something out of King Kong or Monkey King. Sounds like these ruins lean more towards the latter than the former though. Designwise, I mean.∆
=Given the variety of species, I'd have to agree...wait, it could also be one of the other Immortal Apes though...=
'I...is this the part where you tell me that Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is real? Because y'all seem to be implying that he, and his fellow immortal apes, are real.'
∆=Kind of.=∆
'Kind of, how?'
∆Well...your world had 'Journey to the West', where the Intelligent Stone Monkey, Sun Wukong, went to the literal West of China to find the sutras of Buddha, right?∆
'Yeah...'