Factions

In the world are many factions a person can choose from. These choices are based on their country, who they work for, who they don’t work for, or simply what they just want to do.

## CNBT (Criminals Not Been Terminated)

This group usually isn’t a choice and they are decided by governments or other powerful organizations. A CNBT is a criminal who is marked for execution or wanted dead. Most CNBTs are actual criminals, but there are some who are wrongly convicted or did what they did for good reason. Because of this, being within the CNBT faction does not mean all CNBTs work together.

CNBT members

## Military/Patriot

Someone who either aligns with a country and defends its ideals and will work with the government or is active in the military of a country and will all follow orders.

## Citizen

Someone who only aligns with a country but is either neutral to foreign affairs or leaves it up to the government to solve problems.

## Unaligned

People that were either born in the outerlands or left their country and citizenship. Unaligned usually stay completely neutral to most nations.

## Bounty Hunter

Bounty hunters work with the international bounty guild, which was founded during the wars when crime was rising and law was sparse. Bounty Hunters usually stay within an area though some may travel fairly far to get a bounty. Bounty hunters can be citizens but can also be unaligned.

## Mercenary

Like bounty hunters, but don’t work for the guild and will do any job so long as they are paid enough.

## Cult or Clan

A group that either works together due to similar ideas, motives, goals, religion, or lifestyles. They may be citizens but their interests are often for the cult/clan first.

## Gang or Crime Organization

Some people fit a life of crime but find more success in working with other people for better success and safety reasons. Gangs vary between each other with different goals.

### The Wake (disbanded)

A bandit group once formed to fight against the harsh government. However, after a failed attempt to take the Capital, The Wake had shrunk into simple bandits. While they still had a presence, they pale in comparison to the power they once had before facing the Capital. They recently collapsed when their leader and key members of the group were killed by Takemikazuchi.

### Pirates

Pirates. What else can I say? Well, I guess maybe that the most notable pirate gang is led by the infamous Gold Beard.

### The Lombardi Crime Syndicate

The largest and most infamous gang in the world with a near worldwide presence. They represent organized crime and have even made a few deals with some governments. Their headquarters are located in Dorado City with other major sites being near the Astasia Capital, Mercury City in Talos, and New Aurora, the Capital of Aetherius.

## Orion's Belt

A group of hunters founded by the Huntress herself many years ago from families affected by the rift wars. Like all of the other heroes, she had a feeling that the rift was not defeated, so she started the group and taught them how to fight some of the rift monsters using some data she stole from the Engineer’s beastiary. She also taught them how to detect rift presence. Eventually, they found out that the Huntress and other heroes had a small rift presence in them and they cut off all connection with her. It was really something completely unexpected even for her, but it’s likely due to their fear of anything rift related. They have been dormant for quite awhile with their numbers dwindling after some began to question the rift’s existence. Though recently they may be coming back.

## Rift

A difficult faction to count as a group, as most people that would associate as rift would actually probably be more in the Cult/Clan category as they mostly just use the rift, but it’s possible that some people may actually be working with the rift…