From the design team:

Veritas is a Euro-style board game about the preservation of truth in Dark Ages France. Each player represents some "truth," trying to be preserved for posterity by diligent book-copying monks. Players place and copy book tokens in monasteries, and then pick up stacks of books and spread them around France. Each turn, a monastery will burn down, and the books in it may be destroyed. After the monasteries have burned down, players can move through them, so travel on the board gets faster as the game progresses. When scoring chips are drawn, each player whose ideology dominates a region scores points. The first player to score 100 points wins, becoming the dominant truth as the Dark Ages end.