Tributionary Body


The Tributionary Body was the ruling regime of Enaeth, that rose to power during the apocalyptic events of the Declension. Their 200 years of rule ended in simultaneous riots across Enaeth, marking the beginning of the Third Gift Cycle.

Background

Little surviving record exists of the governments and nations before the Declension. What scattered remnants exist in recovered texts and auricle recordings, indicate Enaeth was a united front of powerful nations called T.A.M.E.S (Theological Alliance of Militarized Eridinean States) in response to the religious refutation of the eastern Agarthern Empire.

Tensions grew between these two factions, leading to the most devastating conflict on Noth; the Atheist Wars. This war ended when the Agarthern Empire performed an unknown experiment to attack the Trinium, leading to the Empires complete destruction and the beginning of the Declension in 2000 2G.c

Born of the Declension came the Scions, which turned all of Enaeth into an active war zone. As cities and leader figures fell, the military officials of TAMES soon found themselves in charge of both the military and civil crises arising from the Declension. The fight to keep civilization from complete collapse, and the ruthless theocratic indoctrination of its military figures during the Atheist War, turned TAMES into a brutalist regime focused solely on survival.

As the crisis subsided, civil hysteria on the hubris of the atheist choked the cities, leading to increased paranoia of anti-theist acts attracting the divine retribution of the gods.

TAMES became swept up in this paranoia itself, and reformed into the Tributionary Body; a government comprised entirely of highly zealous military officials. The Body itself was a ruling council of nine Tributionaries, selected for their adherence to extreme religious practice and thought. Underneath them were the council of 'Reckoners', the congress of the Tributionaries with no de facto power, ratifying decisions made by their leaders. Below them were the Reveners, the elected representatives of their districts and cities, who's will and whim was carried out by the Enforcers, the militarized police of the Tributionaries.

Condensing rule of the five nations of Enaeth into one government, the Body began a campaign of internal punitive purges, beginning with the arrest and enslavement of Arathern refugees, and ending with the wildly popular political doctrine known as 'Scipt Obsoli'.

General Information

Organisation Type:

Religious military dictatorship

Leadership:

Tributionary Council

Site/s:

Annihilation of Maysuria

Bedlo Strand

City of Rhyne

City of Torrens

City of Voltaine

Complexes of Hedera

Ruins of Old Argus

Hierarchy:

Tributionary/ies

Reckoner/s

Revener/s

Enforcer/s

Affiliated Groups:

N/A

Devotions:

Date Established:

Circa 2000 2G.c

Date Dissolved:

Leadership killed in 2197 2G.c

Remnant destroyed in 2206 3G.c

Known Members:


Scipt Obsoli was the mandated requirement for citizens to destroy writing materials and technological devices in their possession, and declare any they suspected of storing them. While Voltaic technology saw heavy industrial and consumer application in Enaeth during the war, the hysteria of scientific thought and anti-theist action being co-morbid, led to the complete purge of technology, books and scientists throughout Enaeth. The former enslaved Aratherns became the official enforcers of this policy, as 'Obsolists' collected and destroyed thinking machines, personal devices, means of transport and industrial machines.

This complete and utter destruction of scientific practice and technological advancement led to a dark age in Enaeth that persisted the entire two centuries of the Tributionaries rule over Enaeth. The Tributionaries end came at the turn of the twenty-second century, as increasing corruption, politicking and Morata inspired infighting became the focus of the Body. Unequal and poorly implemented taxation throughout the regions led to an increase in food shortages and an increase in cost for consumer goods led to public disapproval. It was not until 2196 2G.c, when the stars were observed dancing in the sky, that independent unrest began in every city seemingly simultaneously, all led by different factions.

In Torrens, where Tributionary Leadership resided, a group of upper and middle class advocates began holding their own mock senate outside the Cylinder Ring Tower, the primary building of the Tributionary. This group, later to become the Theovocate Senate, supplanted the clumsy chain of command within the Body, and with the support of the populace, passed a resolution in 2197 2G.c calling for the immediate arrest and execution of Body leadership. Torrens fell to riots as the Tributionaries were strung up and publicly executed.

Enaeth fell into bloody civil war; the Theovocates forced into fighting a war against the colonies of Argus and Hedera, led each by their own Tributionary Councils. By 2199 2G.c both Argus and Hedera had collapsed internally, as famine worked its way through Enaeth. In the north, the paltry presence of the Body allowed a government called the 'Monoclasts' to overthrow their limited rule in Rhyne in 2198 2G.c, as the city of Bedlo destroyed its port to prevent Body leadership from fleeing to sea.

The Body was able to maintain control of the south, as the Central Planae and Rhyern Region came to the brink of collapse. This was averted the by the discovery of the No-Box below Torrens in 2202 3G.c, restoring significant agricultural practice in the Planae and beginning the Third Gift Cycle.

To the south, the Tributionary Council of Maysuria was overthrown by its own military branch, its highly decorated and respected general becoming the first Ordinant Magnate of Maysuria. In the city of Eridinea, a powerful politician named Hierern Voltaine I overthrew the last bastion of the Body in a bloody coup with the help of a powerful land-owners association, becoming monarch of the city, renamed Voltaine in 2206 3G.c; ending the rule of the Tributionary Body forever.

Despite the two centuries since their rule ended, the Tributionaries legacy persists and rules the cultural and political landscape of modern Enaeth, including; the illegality of unregistered writing and ownership of writing materials; the replacement of thinking machines and written messages with the creation of the Misiv Service and Tariat Classifications; the evolution of the subjugated and oppressed Arathern Diaspora into what would become the Pennant Archae; and enforcement of a state-based religion known as Trinicism, later adopted by TAERA.