Editing Lerara (section)

==Society==
The Lerara are a hyper-conservative people, unwilling to take great risks due to the dangerous environment they inhabit. They have become extremely patriarchal; a father's word is law for his family, and women and children are kept close to home to tend fires, cook, and make pots. 

They support themselves through a combination of hunting and farming, herding carefully guarded flocks of mutant goats descended from those originally brought into the caverns as well as growing crops of mushrooms and fungi. They have a certain level of trade with the [[drow]], mostly swapping their fungal poisons for better weapons, food, tools, clothing, and trained armorbacks (giant millipedes).

The main religion of the Lerara is the worship of "Mother", an enormous, life-draining, telepathic [[slime]] to whom they sacrifice their elderly, diseased, crippled and deformed - as well as any outsiders they can get their hands on. The Mother can offer its own weird advice and insight if beseeched, but it isn't powerful enough to grant spells to its followers; her "priests" are nothing more than half-mad old men who attempt to divine the future by observing the random ripples and vibrations seen in the Mother's amoeboid form.

Commoners (including most hunters, warriors, and all women and children) wear crude clothing and foot wrappings made from skins and furs stitched together by tribal women, while Lerara nobles (all of whom are males) wear leather boots and other finery gained in trade with the drow under the Hellfurnaces. Gloves and hand wrappings are common. Jewelry is usually crude but popular; nobles wear the best necklaces, rings, amulets, etc., often cast-offs traded to them by the drow, who are glad to be rid of their “junk.”