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Thanks everyone for the questions. Here's some more clarification:

Right now we're focusing on the House of Agon specifically, but of course there are various factions of the Inhumans. There are Maximus' Renegade Inhumans, the Avians, the Centaurs etc. If anyone wants to go ahead and do those breakdowns and add them certainly do, I think if we can differentiate between different groups as much as possible it'll help a lot to clean up the Inhumans race page and make it easier for people to find issues where specific factions appear.

As for how to differentiate what faction to identify a character... the way I view it is this (interchange House of Agon with whatever faction as necessary):

The way I view it a "team" doesn't really appear unless there are more than two members present (Unless it's a team of two people like Cloak and Dagger or the original Heroes for Hire, but that doesn't apply in this case really... but I digress) Otherwise it's just one or two characters on their own.

Also you get a bit of blurred lines when characters like Medusa or Crystal appearing in a comic when they were a member of another team (the Fantastic Four for example) I think it would be the same case as when Wolverine appears in something. Which group is he actually WITH in that story. For example, Wolverine is a member of the Avengers and the X-Men. Usually we classify him as being with whatever team he was on at the time of the story. For example, Wolverine is working with the X-Men at the time of the story even though he was both on the X-Men and the New Avengers at that time. That's because from the context of the story, he was working with the X-Men.

Applying that logic to the Inhuman characters, was published at a time when Crystal was a member of the Fantastic Four. This story also features the House of Agon. Since Crystal was a member pf the FF and was acting with Fantastic Four at the time, she would be listed as part of the Fantastic Four instead of the House of Agon.

When it comes to when to use the Inhumans (race) as a tag depends on a few factors. In most cases we use the race as a tag to classify various unnamed characters. If there are more than three characters that are a major contribution to the story (either as a feature, supporting or villain) and they are not part of a specific faction, then by all means use the Inhumans tag. It's very rare that the Inhumans would be listed by itself because there are no named characters that are a major influence (Kind of like the Skrulls, who usually are the villain of a story and often we just have "Skrulls" in the villains section because there are no distinguishable characters)

When all else fails, check with an Admin, we'll usually steer you in the right direction.