"We were a whole society unto ourselves. A society predicated largely on a mutual love of game design, trickery, and backstabbing, but still. With us...I don't know how you mean recruited, if you really mean impressed, or something else. Everyone in the Heptarchate took the same exams after secondary education, and if your scores and your scying results were compatible, you were....strongly encouraged to join whichever faction best fit your aptitudes. It's the only way to be anything, really, to do anything besides stay exactly where you were born."

Jedao, hick that he was, might have a somewhat exaggerated view of the limitations on more cosmopolitan factionless, but he isn't entirely wrong.