The Tambar Rebellion
In 1439, Ostamber agitators infiltrated the Heartlands of Banteave and began holding secret meetings. Late at night, in shuttered taverns and haylofts, they began pouring their poisoned words into the ears of the young, the gullible, the desperate. They spoke about the overreaching powers of the church and the nobility, and how the gilded elites were responsible for the crushing weight of taxes and tithes that beggared the commonfolk generation after generation. Inspired by the works of a heretical friar, Brother Tambar, the Tambarist movement called for extreme curtailing of the Church's political and financial power over Banteave, the expansion of rights for the commonfolk, and the lessening of noble authority.
On the 15th day of Sunfall in 1439, the first open act of violent defiance to the social order was carried out in full public view. Church tithe collectors making their usual rounds in Risevar County during the harvest were brutally beaten, robbed and killed by an angry, well-coordinated mob. When Dillestone dispatched their militia to put the mob down, they quickly found themselves outmatched, and what should have been an easy victory for them turned into a drawn-out bloody slog. The insurrectionists seized several districts in Risevar Town, erecting barricades and hunting down any soldiers that still remained inside. In the span of a few days, one of the crown jewels of Banteave's Heartland was utterly paralyzed.
And it would only be the first city to catch flame.
Conflict Type
War
Start Date
1439
Ending Date
1441
Conflict Result
The Tambar Rebellion was crushed by the Kingdom of Banteave
Belligerents
The Kingdom of Banteave
Led by
The Tambar Rebellion
Strength
The majority of the forces fielded in the battle against the Tambarists came from the lands and vassals of House Oake . House Dillestone had grown complacent during the long years of peace, and their troops were not fully prepared for the onslaught brought about by the organized insurrectionists.
The Tambarists gathered a surprising amount of disgruntled commonfolk, drawn in by their fiery speeches and promises of a radical new society. The organizers seemed to be well-supplied, but did not disclose that the majority of their funding came from Ostamber , a rival nation to the west of Banteave. Through their funding and a groundswell of popular support, the Tambarists were able to field many poorly-armed divisions, as well as more specially-trained groups of saboteurs.
Casualties
Hundreds died on both sides of the conflict, and Houses Oake, Dillestone and Sandoreale all suffered losses. The most grievous of casualties came when the heir to House Oake, Lowenna Benett Oake , met her end during a pitched battle against the Tambarists.
Lacking the extensive military training afforded to the standing armies of the Great Houses, the Tambarists suffered devastating casualties during the height of the conflict.
Objectives
Facing the threat of an insurrection that vowed to knock down the pillars of their society that kept their kingdom intact, House Dillestone declared the Tambarists outlaws and demanded their immediate expulsion or execution. This was not some mere peasant uprising, but an insidious ideology that needed to be uprooted and burned away.
The Tambarists sought to seize or damage Church holdings and force radical societal change upon the land of Banteave. Given the chance, they would have readily marched on Redehall Castle and seized the palace from Eadvard III , burned the king and the throne he sat upon, and declared a new government freed from the yoke of the Church.
