The faction type column, those distinct types, they are just "made up" correct? I am wondering if there is any rhyme or reason other than they were grouped together for organizational uses?

I beleive those are the actually faction type from live at the time

On live when your looking for faction you have with a clan

on the factions page, there is a drop down where you select the type ie. Shattered Lands
the screen then populates with all the SHattered Lands factions

of course this allows us to make up out own as well

a bettor name would be category

here is what we send to client the type column goes to category

and is all in census
here is a wikia link
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/All_Factions

Got it, thanks. So the list needs to remain, but additional ones are okay.