User blog comment:Elestan Larcalaite/About "roleplaying"/@comment-26453572-20160224131538/@comment-25533095-20160224135604

Exactly, and those that were chosen to be admins were already kings of factions. Or they were simply the original staff, so they just went as even an only player of a faction, back in the early days of the server. Then when more people joined, they kind of just rolled with us admins since we were the first ones to actually choose a faction.