Samloyal23
Adventurer
The factions are actual organizations, like guilds, with training programs and indoctrination. Agreeing with them does not make you a member any more than like King Arthur makes you a knight.
Food for thought: Use Renown (from DMG) for the factions rather than backgrounds. As you rank up in renown, you gain access to feat and perhaps gain a boon (DMG) appropriate to the faction.
I began doing this, and I should be ready to start sharing stuff soon. Basically I made a Renown 1-10-25-50 chart for each faction which corresponds to namer-factotum-factor-factol ranks, and the special abilities the faction member gains at each rank. I'm using the Factol's Manifesto from 2e.Food for thought: Use Renown (from DMG) for the factions rather than backgrounds. As you rank up in renown, you gain access to feat and perhaps gain a boon (DMG) appropriate to the faction.