By their own reckoning, the Believers predate the notion of Concords, themselves. They have their genesis in the ancient temples and groves of the dead, where those who were tied down to the world were tended to by those who could have gone on to Paradise, but did not. Such activities were highly looked upon by Charun, and His Ferrymen, and those who denied themselves rest until these others, too, could travel with them were high in His sight.

In the wake of the Sundering, and the blocking of passage to what lay beyond, their mission changed. With the help of the Ferrymen, they sought to create passage for those who would step through the Barrier, rather than waiting for the promised Day of Dominion. Such a task was arduous and difficult, to be certain, but the Ferrymen gifted them with the understanding of Anchors, and guided their hands as best as they could. And so did the Believers begin to seek Transcendence, so they might all rejoin Charun, and dwell in Paradise with Him forever.

While that idylic past is where the Believers might have come from, the reality, today, is slightly different, and therefore more fractuous. The Concord still believes that Paradise lays beyond the Barrier, and that a Wraith must turn her back on the ties that bind her to the world to reach it. And they still solicit - and receive - the aid of the Ferrymen in their goal to escape the Land of the Dead.

But the shape of that Paradise, and the God - or Gods - that dwell there, are no longer uniformly agreed upon. The rise of monotheistic religions, and the splintering of the old ways, has led to the balkanization of the Believers. While they are still one Concord, there are as many viewpoints on what lies beyond the Barrier - and what else a Wraith might need to believe to get there - as there are individual groups of Believers. And this has caused them to break apart, and seek distance from competing groups, lest religious disagreements turn to open violence.