The game has been inspired by such authors as Alexandre Dumas, père, Michael Moorcock and H. P. Lovecraft.

The religion is based on Christian faith in one god mixed with reincarnation and the cycle of life known from Hinduism.

The human countries, tied together with that religion, are involved in a long struggle against all other races (elves, dwarves, orcs, etc.

), as Karianism dictates that all of those races are doomed beyond salvation, therefore must be exterminated as minions of evil god Kusiciel (Tempter).

The corebook, Monastyr, does not describe the lands of non-humans, instead, it concentrates on the human empire, which, while united by a single faith and church, is composed of over fifty autonomous countries, each involved in various struggles, political or military, against others.