Reform Faction

== Basic Information ==
The Reform Faction is a pro-faction, anti-elitist political group that often empathises and protects the active LR/MR over any higher authority. The faction is also known for demagogism in recent times, as well as deliberate breaking and defiance of genre rules to empathise the independence of the common faction and its members.
== Lodth & Mithandir ==
Lodth was the founder and first Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order, and therefore greatly valued the importance of the faction he'd created, over any incoming authority from the genre, particularly Mithandir.
Lodth was insulted when Mithandir attempted to seize the group that Lodth had created off of him, this resulted in Lodth taking his group and breaking it from the genre.
Lodth was also an ardent supporter of leaders rights, which would over time become a common theme of reformist political thought. This stood in direct contrast to Mithandir's beliefs, that he should be in complete control of all genre assets. Lodth is quoted as saying after his departure from the genre; "Only problem I have with TTC rn is the fact that they don't let leaders control their group fully anymore." ... "So you're really limited to what you can do, and your activity is based on the genre as a wholes activity and what they're doing" ... "That's why y'all have gotta come together and start working together for each other's benefit".
After Lodth had fallen out with Mithandir, he left the genre in 2018, and lost all hope in the project.
== The Influence of the Ancient Hospitaller Grandmasters ==
The Hospitaller Grandmasters before the reign of DesiredFrequency/GrandmasterNablus proved to be a large inspiration to the reformist faction and its changing beliefs. These Grandmasters led before the Hospitallers joined the genre, and there has been accepted to have been thirteen of them in number. 
These individuals are generally shunned by the [[Reactionary Faction]], and have been claimed to have been unimportant in the history of the Hospitallers. This led to an increased interest in them from reformists, particularly in the Hospitallers.
The Ancient Grandmasters today shows the Hospitallers as independent, and free from any outside judicial or executive authority.
== In Modern Times ==
The Reformist Faction in modern times sided with the Crusader Council in becoming increasingly anti-Seraph. This was due to a mass influx of Seraphs and former-Seraphs into the genre's establishment, which led to a severe distaste for them in the Reformist camp. Though within CS, the reformists generally take no sides in political issues, it is important to note that most prominent reformers of the modern era were once members of the pro-church faction of the Crusader States.
Hospitaller reformism had peaked in modern times, with the reign of [[britnuka]], commonly known as Bree. Who took inspiration from the Ancient Grandmasters and his general demagogism-orientated thought which pushed him to make several attempted reforms which limited the powers of the judiciary and banned Seraphs and Seraph-aligned genre members from the Hospitallers, the most famous of these being the Hospitaller Declaration of Autonomy, which was written by Bree when he was 2ic of the Hospitallers, with some support from other council members. This bill would cause mass hostility between the Hospitallers and the Judicary.
Outside of the Crusader States, Bree was seen as a extremely controversial rabble-rouser. This would upset supporters of the Reactionary Faction on several occasions. Bree would deliberately break genre rules and regulations on several occasions in acts of defiance against the genre's elite, and offer deliberately flawed explanations when questioned by the judiciary, effectively acting as an insult to judicial authority. Bree would be removed by ACEA veterans, and Reactionaries - Arathuir and F_orged. He would later be banned from the genre entirely for the breaking of genre rules.