defias

Afterall who cares about the defias brotherhood when the hoarde players are in town.

Norrath's Fictional Factions 2005

Given the difference between a player's internal identity between single player games and MMORPGs (in single player games you tend to be the messiah--or "the one" at least, in MMORPGs you're an extra in a cast of hundreds of thousands), I think there's always going to be differences in designs, although I can see how a designer could extend the beginning newbie quests all the way through the game (to use WoW as an example, there could be a quest chain that takes you from killing defias in Elwyn Forest to the death of Nefarian in BWL -- arguably that quest chain is there, but it could be more explicit).

A Spoonful of Sugar 2006