As some of you have already noticed, there is an option in 'show' command
called 'show factions'.
What is it? Faction is, in a nutshell is a party, if you want to call it like
that. Monsters can group based on their interests, terrestial belongings, and
many other factors. Those groups can have inter-factional relations, thus
having bad relations with one of the factions as a player that could mean your
faction standing withregards to some other monsters group has increased. This
code has been in game for quite a while now, implemented by yours truly. Don't
ask me which factions there are and what they affect, the only thing I can
tell you is that factions are very flexible and everything that thay may or
may not affect is solely on the shoulders of the area creator, who has decided
to use factions in his area masterpiece.
Therefore, please be informed, help page on factions is upcoming (one well
known archwizard has let me know that it is).