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This is why the situation is weird. Kambulas won, but didn't claim the spoils of war because in their minds they're still nomads.
Normally if the nomads win the confrontation, they'll take the territory and become dominant. If they won was because they were territorial/ready already. If they weren't, they wouldn't have won to begin with, as normally dominant males always chases males with nomadic mindset off. You normally won't see fully nomadic males defeating dominant males for obvious reasons.
What happened was that the BDM lost the territorial warfare to a coalition of nomads that have a nomadic mindset, that aren't willing to be dominant males yet, which gives us this weird situation. Kambulas won but didn't claim the BDM's prizes.