Orriginal Template Location

[Esdee]

Could anybody tell me where the orriginal Templates are stored within the system ?

Instead of editing the standart templates using the adminCP, I would like to do it manually in order to override the standerd included templates.

I need this for this project I'm working on wherein my supermods get each to derive a new style, for which I want them to use our current style as their starters point instead of the orriginal Vbulletin 2.x one, taking away from them the possibility to actually 'harm' the current style.

I've been looking throughout different files for all day now but haven't been able to find them, which made me realize I have no ideah where the Vbulletin system stores templates in the first place.
And may it be in the database, then still the templates had to be placed there during instalation, no ?