One time I had a big argument with my authoritarian friend about how the Protectorate are worse than the Faceless. Because in the game, the Faceless are an invading threat that ultimately are trying to find an item someone stole, and intend to leave immediately after they re-obtain it. They attack people as much as any other faction, or even less. The Protectorate on the other hand are also invaders, in that they establish hierarchy state control over previously anarchist settlements, and do not intend to leave, but to grow and assume control of all of Underrail.