Holy Land at the Foot of The Mountains
Tabot is a holy land, first and always, but while the dzong-pon rule in the districts, the High One sits with the Celestial Emperor and watches over his chosen land. Though very little is known about the early history of Tobat, legends and documented references reach back to the epic written in the Abhinavamahabharata, called The Godswar elsewhere, it mentions the Kiratas, Ne Yalambar having the dubious honour of being slain in the battle of the Mahabharata, in which gods and mortals fought alongside each other. Legend credits him with meeting the lord of heaven, who ventured into the Tobat in human guise. It is said that during the battle of Mahabharata, Yalamber went to witness the battle with a view to take the side of the losing party. Lord Krishna, knowing the intention of Yalamber and the strength and unity of the Kiratas, thought that the war would unnecessarily be prolonged if Yalamber sided with the Kauravas so, by a clever stroke of diplomacy, Lord Krishna cut off Yalamber's head. According to some legendary accounts in the chronicles, the Kiratas are to have been given dominion, established by commissioners and also communicated by royal edicts, religious mantras, and law, the Dynasty House Kirata in Tobat.
Tobat is a stable and committed nation, ruled sensibly by the hands of the gods. It is a place for prayer and ceremony and scholarly learning, a restful place. The land is poor but workable, and the mountains play host to thousands of goats and sheep. Tabot mainly imports rice, grains, and steel, while exporting copper, furs, and ice to those from Lung who like the glacier ice. Phutan, the capital, is surrounded by a thick bamboo forest, but the remainder of the lowland is rough hills and grassy fields and has few trees save those carefully tended to. It is a wild land, with freezing winds of the mountain glaciers, avalanches and mud-slides, dust-storms and the insurmountable peaks of the Wu Pi Te Shar Mountains. Many of its people are nomads, moving with their herds. The local wild yaks have been domesticated over the years. There are white snow apes and downy snowbirds throughout the mountains, and the white tiger hunts in their realm. Most horrible of the fauna is the yeti, the huge snowmen that have plagued the monasteries since their inception.
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