Nepal
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Yeti/Abominable Snowman/Metoh Kangmi/Metch Kangmi
The Yeti is a cryptid from the Himalayas. It is known of in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim. The name “Abominable Snowman” was a mistranslation made by Henry Newman in a 1921 column of the Calcutta Statesman newspaper. He mistakenly wrote Met-Tah Kangmi as Metoh-Kangmi, and the newspaper then changed it to Metch Kangmi. The name gained notoriety and led to a boom of expeditions. A yeti was first sighted by the Western world in 1921 by Lieutenant Colonel C. K. Howard Bury and his team. They saw the creature on a twenty-thousand-foot snow field on the Tibetan side of the mountains. They seem to live in stream filled valleys…
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Mashan/Chudel
The Mashan is a demonic vampire from Nepal and India. Mashan are rare and have unnaturally long lives. They feed on blood and then flesh, cause madness, control the dead, and kill randomly. They live in an alternate dimension meant for demons, and they cross between worlds where the border is thinnest. Mashan rarely finds a weak point to use and cross over and often requires a magic user to pull them through in an attempt to control them. Magic users can hold Mashan, but lose control if they make even a small mistake. They can be stopped with prayers to the god Shiva, who tells them to return to…
