Moving very quickly, he and his followers took over the churches. It's unknown how long Karras had been wooing his brethren with a radical and excitingly progressive new thinking. There was a great explosion of invention and innovation once they were freed from the conservatism and intentionally slow progress of the Hammerite Order. The Mechanist Movement surged rapidly and the flood was unstoppable.

Just imagine, Karras saying: "Well, Garrett, laddie, you know this thing between me and Caduca? Well, she came to a sermon once - obviously we were both younger those days -, and that's where we met. Eyes across a crowded room, that sort of thing. After the sermon I nipped out round the back, and there she was, waiting for me, and told me, hah, you never guess what, well, she said 'Dear Master Hammerite, I'm a really grievous sinner, could you punish me?' well, that's just the thing for a growing lad, so I took her down to the inquisition cellar, and, well, I won't go into details, but she definitely was absolved... Afterwards, we met a couple of times, great days, great days, and sometime later you came along, laddie, you know what I mean? But just as she told me, a day later, there was this... accident in the forge, with a hammer hitting me in the, well, not to put too fine a point on it, in the testicular area, and afterwards little brethren Karras wasn't the same. When I told your momma, the nasty bitch she was, she said I was no good for her any longer, and ran away. Joined some nuns or something, only it must really have got on her, 'cos last time I saw her, she was all wrinkly, and muttered me something about 'iron trees'. I say, this beer is pretty good stuff, do they put burricks in it? Anyway, I asked her, did she mean the candelstick I forged her? And she said, 'that's bad'. Hah. Stupid woman. Anyway, that was the last I saw of her, 'cos then I became pretty interested with all these cogs and stuff, you can't believe how fas'nating it is, laddie.
Anyway... You'n this Viktoria girl, eh? Nice strong limbs she has, I can't help noticing! And seems to be pretty well provided in the fruit area. Just be careful at the first time, you hear me? 'Course, I could give you a few tips, hahhahha!" and so on. By the Builder...:cheeky:

Karras' madness is caused by his thirst for power. It's the desire to control people that drives everything he does - initially indirectly through scripture, and then literally, through technology.

I've always thought that Karras' mental problems began in childhood. His very obvious speech impediment would have made him a prime target for bullying, which most likely fostered a deep loathing and distrust of other people.

Ultimately Karras decided to take revenge on the entire world for the treatment he had endured. In the end it was only the intervention of another loner - Garrett - that put paid to his fiendish plan.