The Tabari Republic

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The Tabari Republic (or the Warhara Tabarax in the native tabari tongue), is a mountainous nation, centred around the capital mountain known as Mos Tran-Kewh, wherein lies the nations administration, carved into the hollowed centre of the mountain.

The Tabari Republic is of the Old Tavarism religion, with Mos Tran-Kewh historically representing the religious centre of Orthodox Tavarism.

Mos Tran-Kewh is the location of the Fafa Ulma.

## History

### Ancient History

Long before time had a name, a group of nomadic herders were crossing the mountains of Elburs, when they were suddenly trapped by a terrible blizzard, reducing all visibility and threatening to freeze the peoples to death. Stumbling blindly through the hostile weather, the people discovered a large cave in a nearby mountain. For over 40 days the blizzard forced the people to shelter in this cave, during which time they began to leave marks on the cave and inhabit it, creating artistic carvings in the rock and carving out rooms to sleep in. When the blizzard finally stopped, the people had grown attached to their new mountain home, and considered it holy, for it had protected them in their most desperate time, and it was named “Mos Tran-Kewh” for this reason, meaning “Holiest Mountain” in their tongue, generations have passed since this time and the mountain has been gradually dug into, with the creation of new rooms and structures within the mountain. During this time the tabari maintained a policy of friendly isolationism, generally ignoring the goings on of the outside world, while seeking to help those who passed through the lands, with directions as well as food and clothes to help them survive the harsh climate the tabari now called home. For much of the tabari history the people of the mountain maintained tension with those of the tabari who instead decided to return to a nomadic herder lifestyle, or whose who devoted their life to agriculture outside the mountain, creating a divide between the various tabari groups, however recently, the people of the mountain have come together with the people of the fields and open plains in cooperation, marking the creation of The Tabari Republic, which promises equal representation of all the tabari groups included within it, with a belief that united they are stronger.

### Modern History

In recent years, Tabaria has become less introspective, sending diplomats out across the continent of Tethys to try and establish relations with the other nations which inhabit it. Tabaria soon found friends, and later allies in its neighbors of Kommerzhy-Sauvier Alykhia, and eventually Archeo. Tabaria has generally pursued a policy of "active neutrality" on the global stage, avoiding sides in major conflicts that may arise, while staying readied if ever Tabaria ever found itself the subject of a war declaration.

#### Partition of Lerne

One of the Earliest diplomatic actions done by the tabari republic was the partition of the Empire of Lerne, a large nation occupying much of the continent of Tethys, while remaining sparce and fairly uninhabited in its main city of Lerne, thus the nations of Alykhia and Sauvier had drawn up plans for the annexation of various Lerne territories, which Tabaria saw, and wishing to secure the southern diorite mountains which Lerne possessed, sought to join the group and dividing up the Lerne territories. However, due to wars not being a possibility, the Tabari leadership had another, bloodless idea for the lands, to divide the lands up among Sauvier, Alykhia and Tabaria, and simply refute the authority of Lerne over the area at all. With no way to counter to unified efforts of it's three main neighbors, the leader of Lerne, Ciaran left, later resettling with the city of Kerola. While the other nations took the land directly, The Tabari Republic instead formed the vassal of Attayan, headed by Zwiezdakon, who wished for greater autonomy and their own base of operations in Fort Attayan.

#### Formation of Shuijin

Following the Partition of Lerne, The nations of Sauvier-Kommerzhy, Tabaria and Alykhia remained close, forming a joint alliance. Thus peace in the region persisted for some time, this peacefulness was, however, suddenly shattered following the annexation of Sauvier, and later Kommerzhy too by Shuijin, who with a larger population and resources pressured Kommerzhy-Sauvier into accepting ultimatums ceding both provinces, this was a shock to the Tabari leadership, who suddenly lost one of their closest allies practically overnight, thus they quickly went into diplomacy with the remains of the Kommerzhy leadership, signing a deal of vassalization of the remaining lands of Kommerzhy, promoting Waxirio to leader of the vassal due to the original leader abdicating and the heir leaving, Thus the capital was moved to Naporia and under Waxirio reformed as Everlen.

#### Formation of the Tethyan League

Concerned at the sudden expansion of Shuijin, the tabari leadership qucikly opened talks with the neighboring Alykhia and Archeo with the aims of forming a regional pact to avoid any further conflicts in the region, these talks were later joined by Castle Aethyrnæia, and the Tethyan League was formed. Shortly after formation, the league was approached by Berloja, who also joined following unanimous support from the existing members.

## Culture

The Tabari Culture has gradually been formed over many years, however due to the historically fractured tabari tribes and groups there tends to be some regional differences across the nation.

### Cuisine:

The diet of the Tabari people tends to be limited somewhat to what is avaliable for them to produce or harvest, with basic foods such as fish caught from under the ice, and hardy crops grown in the valleys and plateus of the harsh mountains. Due to the limited growing period for plants in the mountains, the Tabari have become experts at food preservation, using cold rooms in the mountain tops as well as other methods to preserve meats and vegtables for far longer then they would otherwise, similarly, the Tabari people have a traditional "Nawash" bread, which is an unleavened, generally quite dry bread, which can be stored for over 2 years in normal conditions, with the cold storage of the mountain top able to take that to just over 3 years. The Tabari also enjoy "Bastani", a type of ice cream made in the snowy tops of the mountains by pouring fruity syrups and honey onto the snow.

### Pastimes:

Chariot racing: Performed on ice, historically on the harbour; boat racing is also popular.

Polo: Historically confined to nobles and upper class, however the new republic has enabled greater egalitarianism in this regard.

Kotra: An Ancient Tabari board game, which contains a circular board, with the goal of the game being to 'climb the mountain' by getting to the center of the board, going round the outside in a spiral being able to knock each others pieces off to a position on ring outwards.