"Factions" were (are?) a big thing in the Forever Knight mailing list fandom. The first were associated with major characters, and motivated the big round-robin RPGs known as "wars". These—and the others that followed—initially were by way of being teams playing in the wars; but, with the advent of easy mailing lists, became groups of friends with similar interests. From there, Yahoo!Groups of other kinds also became "factions", if only by courtesy (though some of them did play in a few of the largest wars).

For some factions, a website was basically a single page that advertised their existence. For others, it became an archive for fan fiction, jokes, top ten lists, screen- and sound-capture archives, and trivia/FAQ pages. Back at the beginning of the century, i.e. in the fandom's heyday, there were a lot of them. Some were formally associated with the faction's e-group; others were produced by a single member, with love and care. Some were elaborate, large, and regularly updated; others can only be called embryonic—barely started and left incomplete, with myriad "under construction" notices.

Most were uploaded to free sites—free to users, that is, because the webhost sold ad space above (or, in the case of GeoCities, to the side) of each page of the site.

Some of the faction sites do still exist out on the Web—either on the surviving free sites, Tripod and Angelfire, or paid for by someone still active in the fandom. Most, though, have long since vanished. Indeed, some disappeared so many years ago that even the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has, at best, a handful of shadowy pages missing most of their graphics and stories. A few of these, though, were preserved years ago by fans who supplied Steph and me with them when we started the Forever Knight Website Archive. Current faction leaders and/or other members helped us restore others. Fortunately, GeoCities and FortuneCity did provide a little warning that they intended to quit hosting free sites; so many I was able to collect just before their disappearance.

I think I've now uploaded to the new site all of the faction sites that we held. ( Here's the list of what is currently in the archive. )