Hydro and Pyro

Not to be confused with Sectors.

Factions or Subfactions was a division of the Wilderness Guardians into two sub-sections: Hydro and Pyro. Factions were introduced in 2004 by His Lordship, but were abolished in the same year due to conflicts and issues which developed as a result.

In 2004 during the S7 days, the decision to split WG into subfactions was made by His Lordship, due to the clan becoming too large for one person to manage alone (around the 300-member mark), and the Council not yet existing. The factions had their own leadership - Flame Reece was known to be a Hydro leader. The two factions created were called "Hydro" and "Pyro", with an additional two ("Aero" and "Geo") planned - though this stage was never reached. There were no definitive requirements for the factions, and new clan members were automatically placed into either faction after their application had been accepted. There were plans for the factions to compete against each other in inter-clan events, and to earn points for recruitment.

Factions were described in WG's history as "another brilliant Lordship scheme that never worked", and the programme was abolished some time before September 2004. There were numerous reasons for its failure: there was little management from the faction leaders, meaning that His Lordship had to manage the factions as well as his general clan duties - resulting in an even greater workload; the opposite of what he had hoped to achieve with the factions. As well as this, many clan members were unhappy with the faction they were place in - resulting in conflicts and drama between members.