Nepal

Overview[]

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and largest city. The mountain range known as the Himalayas stretches through Nepal and its neighbor Tibet. The tallest mountain in the world Mount Everest is located in Nepal.

Ancient times[]

The Kingdom of Spiders is located in Nepal. It is protected by Bride of Nine Spiders. A dark city covered in spider-webs. Her heart pumps the coldest blood imaginable and she is host to horrors inconceivable to mortal men. They are said to be descended from the Nine Spider Kings of Nepal.^[1]

Modern era[]

In the 1920s the then-Bride of Nine Spiders was a patron of the Lightning Lords of Nepal, and fought Orson Randall.^[2]

At some point, Rihva found a secluded temple in the Himalayas of Nepal, where he stole a bloodstone. Since he had no supernatural powers, he couldn't use it and continued his travels to find someone who could.^[3]

A young Wendell Rand came to Nepal in hopes of finding the mystical city of K'un-Lun. It is when working for a best-and-rest stop in the mountains he met Orson Randall the Iron Fist. He takes to a young boy under his wing and trains him. Wendell hoped to become the next Iron Fist.^[4]

A man named Desmond Guille found the "Singing Spider" and used it to summon the Bride of Nine Spiders. He then trapped imprisoned her. However, group of thieves freed her by accident, allowing he exact revenge against capture. She showed mercy to the surviving thieves and allowed them to escape, but ended up keeping the Singing Spider for herself.^[5]

The Beyonder transported Dazzler and himself to the top of a mountain in Nepal so they could speak in private.^[6]

On the top of Mount Everest the trickster god Loki came to Apocalypse to offer him a major part in his Acts of Vengeance Conspiracy against the Avengers in particular, and super-heroes around the world in general. Apocalypse refused to join him, having other ideas in mind for humanity and after Loki briefly clashed with both Apocalypse and the newly enhanced Caliban, the trickster god saw the folly in his attempt of trying to recruit Apocalypse and left.

In escaping through one of Apocalypse's monitors, Loki attempted to slay the eternal mutant and his minion by making it explode, but Apocalypse shielded them from the blast. With the battle over, Apocalypse told his minion that it was time to begin the next phase of his test of survival on humanity.^[7]

Palace of Tomorrow's Hope, located just outside Kathmandu, was actually one of Tolliver's hidden lease holdings. Copycat found her way there and managed to get inside, only to be captured by Slayback, who wanted to kill Deadpool for killing him.^[8] The temple was then found by Deadpool and Weasel, who got in and took out the monks that lived there, only to find that they've been followed by Weapon X. Thanks to the accidental activation of an A.D.A.M. Unit, Slayback was eventually neutralized and completely disintegrated.^[9]

The master monk of the Seventh Moon Monastery had a vision about Maurice Fortuit's brutal killing.^[10] At a later point, Adam Destine would come to the monastery to heal.^[11]

Shatterstar traveled to a temple on Mount Xixabangma on the Nepal/Tibet border to find solace. He trained with the Tibetan monks there. Cabl came to the mountain to recruit him back to the X-Force.^[12]

Sister Mary traveled to Mount Everest on the Nepal/Tibet border to locate Cameron Hodge and bring him back to join the Human Council.^[13]

Quicksilver in a slump of depression ran across the globe through Paris, down to Venice, and then to a snow-capped mountain at the top of the world in Nepal.^[14]

In Nepal, Molek came to Johnny Blaze just after he was defeated by his half-brother, Daniel Ketch, and Blaze wanted his time as the Ghost Rider to end. Nevertheless, Molek and his companion, Bai Gu Jing made Johnny and the new Caretaker accompany them on a quest to find the last remaining Ghost Riders.^[15]

Nightcrawler used Nepali funeral rituals as an example of how people deal with grief.^[16]

Alternate Realities[]

Earth-41101[]

Stephen Strange came to Nepal to look for Wong, only to find out he had moved to New York, two blocks down from Strange's apartment.^[17]

Earth-199999[]

In this reality, Kamar-Taj is located in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is home and training grounds to the Masters of the Mystic Arts.^[18]

For a while, Nepal was also home to Afterlife, an Inhuman sanctuary.^[19]

Earth-TRN133[]

• Kathmandu (Capital City)
  • Kamar-Taj (Earth-199999)
• Seventh Moon Monastery
• Himalayas
  • Mount Everest
• Afterlife

• Bride of Nine Spiders (Place of Birth)
• Adam Destine
• Rihva