Well, if I remember right, two people (Chatoyance and Windchaser) had founded them around a similar time back in the very early days of TCB. At the time, Chatoyance agreed to let the other, if later founded group be the main one. Then there was a schism after some events in the adminship and some appeasement towards a crowd that did not like TCB a year or so ago, so Chat decided to get this one back up and dusted off while some people like me that weren't happy with the flood of hostile people in the other one ended up coming over here.
Things seemed to have cooled in recent times, at least it seems...