Editing Yutow (section)

==Church==
The anti-intellectual Valachani don't exactly mix well with the general needs of an organized religion. Yutow's clerics, called Moarnekone, are regarded simultaneously with respect for their office as speakers to Yutow and intercessors with the spirits, but also with contempt for giving up the "honorable" pursuits of fishing, hunting, farming and trapping in order to do something as "unnatural" as study and pray. Generally speaking, there is only a single church consisting of a full-fledged moarnekone and a studying acolyte to a given village, with the cleric relying on a weekly tithe of food and goods from his community to survive. In return, these clerics serve as the ultimate form of social organization within their village; they arbitrate disputes, ensure taxes are paid, care for those unable to support themselves, and generally work to appease both the nebulous spirits and the all-too-real Black Leopards, Baron Kharkov's thuggish police force.

This matches well with the general belief of Yutow's faithful that he is always watching them, both protecting them and keeping alert for signs of immorality, which leads to him occasionally testing their faith.

Whilst an individual moarnekone's authority ends at the borders of their village, the faith is social, and the moarnekone travel frequently to their neighbors, meeting with peers, discussing matters of faith, and serving as diplomats when Valachani villages are suffering disputes. Once each year, under the full moon, all of the moarnekone in Valachan undertake a sacred pilgrimage to a holy site near Castle Pantara, where they undertake a ritual believed to evoke Yutow's blessings for Valachan as a whole.

It's a well-known fact that the moarnekone tend to disappear, either mysteriously or just by being torn apart by panthers. The faithful of Yutow believe that moarnekone who grow too strong in their faith are summoned in body or spirit by Yutow to attend him on the moon. More educated outsiders just look at the obvious tells on Baron Kharkov and his Black Leopards and keep their skepticism to themselves.

Each Yutow church is missing its roof over the nave, allowing each night's moonlight to fall upon the icon of Yutow stored there. Such icons depict Yutow as a green-skinned man with yellow eyes who has been horribly beaten; his face is creased in pain, his body covered in bruises and open wounds, and his broken legs trail uselessly behind him, forcing him to support himself upright on one hand whilst the other hand is uplifted in a gesture of protection. At the base of the icon is covered the holy words: "That which is dead cannot suffer still".

A moarnekone, regardless of alignment, always has the power to Turn Undead. They pray for their spells when the moon reaches its zenith, and hold their services at moonrise. Multiclassed moarnekones typically take levels in [[Druid]].