As previously said, Katrina’s World is the Earth in a far future, when our present age will be totallly forgotten. That future Earth is populated by three races:

Vampires

Vampire’s society is divided in castes. At the top there are the Great Masters, millenary Vampires endowed with Superior powers. Great Masters form the Great Council. They rule all the Vampires society, and each Vampire in the World has to obey their laws, under penalty of death.
Vampirized humans and Savages (a kind of beasty-like, totally out of control Vampires completely submissed to their lowest instincts) are at the bottom of the social ladder: they are a kind of “paria”: each Vampire would immediately kill a savage, if by chance meeting him.

Great Masters and Savages are the only castes that cannot be acquired during life: it’s just a matter of birth.
Any other intermediary status is assumed by virtue or demerit, other than noble birth.
Katrina’s social prestige is very low, due to her past disastrous enterprises.
Vampires maintains a core source of power in a fortress located in their capital City.

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Licanthropes

Main Vampire’s opponents are not Humans (that fear Vampires), but Licanthropes. Unlike Vampires, Licanthropes live vacant in forests (in which is located the Holy Site where they gather). Anyway, Licanthropes also are able to assume a human look, and freely mix with unaware humans. Once transformed, Lycantrhopes are big, thick, with terrifying nails and tusks, really threathening and powerfull, literally able to dismember their victims. Their society isn’t divided in castes, but it’s composed by tribes.
Each tribe is ruled by a Chief, while all of the other members are granted the same rights and duties.
When a new group leaves a tribe, a new leader is chosen (designed by the tribe’s leader, or entrusted because of her/his physical strenght.
Please, note that while Vampires are able to vampirize Humans, Lycantrhopes’ bite isn’t contagious: you are born Lycantrhtope, that’s all. This is one of the many reasons because of Lycanthropes see vampirism as a kind of desease to be defeated.

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Humans

Human are the weakest among the three species.
The majority of human beings lives in little country villages, unsheltered against Vampires’ attack: human beings are seen as food by Vampires: and that’s the very reason because of they are not exterminated.
In such a villages people try to defend as they can, perfectly aware of their life’s precariousness.
A minority of human population inhabits the few existing towns, real fortresses well protected by various devices: here people feel quite safe.

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