The world is enchanted by the suicide of a cleric (who people thought of as a God) named Fasadon, to preserve the universe's original political order: with five House Families which rule everything. This magic was sustained by Fasadon's Circle for two thousand five hundred years, until the second raid by an organization called the Black Knights. Nobility along with the Guardians (Fasadon's three mortal companions) guarded the grave, and certain demons (who had been rivals of the Guardians) arrived to bring woe.