KISMET Lore dump: Little is known about the oracles' upbringing, though it's widely known that unlike other Espers, who emerge from their incubation tanks as fully-grown humans, the oracles came into being as an infants, and were raised by a team of medical professionals, scientists, and childcare specialists. With each oracle taking multiple years to manufacture, Project Delphi's cloning operations ran for nearly 40 years as they created the eight oracles.