Toivan Sagismar Tallabold (b. 1780; d. 1821) was a Vicusian revolutionary, statesman, lawyer, orator, and political theorist who served as the Chancellor of Vicus from the end of the Vicusian Revolution of 1818-1819 to his arrest and execution in 1821. A leading yet controversial advocate of adobeanism and republicanism, Tallabold and his Adobeans held de facto authority in the Vicusian government during the Revolution. The political ideology centered around Tallabold’s specific brand of adobeanism is called Tallaboldism.
Tallabold was originally an extremely charismatic lawyer and radical political theorist based out of Eskandergret. On the eve of the Great War, he was arrested for his outspoken anti-war views, but he escaped to Ranjev. In 1811, he merged his Eskandergret-based adobean party with several others, forming The Adobe, which he became the leader of a year later. Upon returning to Vicus, he befriended high-profile figures such as Galdrigar Omaldi and the future king Avab V, Prince of Corwine. Growing critical of archconservatives Yavon VII and Yavon Preed, Tallabold advocated for the end of the Great War, fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men, the abolition of the slave trade, and possibly even the abolition of the monarchy.
In the 1818 legislative elections in Vicus, the coalition between Tallabold’s adobeans and Prince Avab’s liberals were an unexpected landslide victory; leading Yavon VII to illegally dissolve parliament and call for new elections. As a result, Tallabold’s paramilitary wing, the Redshirts, rose up alongside disgruntled peasants and veterans in the Vicusian Revolution. Following the abdication of Yavon VII and the coronation of Avab II, Tallabold was installed as Chancellor of Vicus following his coup later that year. His tenure as Chancellor was marked by supreme repression of all opposition in the Red Terror, mass executions of political opponents by the Redshirts across Vicus, the house arrest and isolation of the king within the Yavonian Palace, and the pushthrough reforms such as suffrage, land reform, the attempted abolition of feudalism, and the Treaty of Theobabate which gave independence to Kzak. Increasingly, members of his own party turned against him, and accusations of excesses and treason came to a head in late 1821. Tallabold was arrested, tried, and executed in the same day.
A deeply divisive figure in modern Vicusian history, Tallabold’s views, policies, and actions continue to shape Vicus today. Today he has been viewed with contempt and disgust by many, notably for his mass executions and his associations with the sex trafficker Omaldi. However, he is notable for his progressive views for the time.