The Tagars were a minor faction appearing in the game files of the very early versions of Warrider and Mount&Blade.
Description[]
Almost nothing is known about the Tagars. From the game files, they were meant to be hostile to another removed minor faction - the Antler Knights - as well as to bandits. They were neutral when it came to the player. Their only confirmed appearance is in the module_factions.py/factions.txt files and no known Tagar troops or parties can be found anywhere. It is possible the game was meant to spawn placeholder Khergit parties, labelled as 'Tagars', during a minor quest but it is currently impossible to confirm.
Trivia[]
- The Tagars apparently take their name the real-world Bronze Age Tagar culture that existed between the 8th and 1st centuries BCE in south Siberia.
- It is unclear why the Tagars were removed. Some in the community assume they were an early concept for a faction that was abandoned before anything could be done with them. It is plausible as, given how the real-world Tagar culture existed between the 8th and 1st centuries BCE, their presence in the Middle Ages, when the games are set, would have been strange.
- It is possible that Tagars could be retconned as a minor Calradic culture that was at some point destroyed or assimilated by a larger culture, hence why they disappeared without a trace.
- While unlikely, it is possible the Tagars got a soft retcon as the Sturgian clan Togaroving in Bannerlord. If Sturgia survived into the future, it is possible the clan became the Tagars.