Many Weren still living on Kurg have embraced Orlamism. Unfortunately, these weren often hold heretical versions of the Orlamu beliefs. For these weren, the Divine Unconscious is indelibly linked to the universe itself. Their version of the Orlamu god—the Divine Unconscious—takes them from their homeworld to other, better worlds. The Divine Unconscious isn’t a subject of scientific study to them, but a force that believers must appease. A weren who make proper offerings before leaving Kurg will find her way to one of the paradises of the Great Beyond. Those who fail to do so end up in one of the universe’s many hells.

The native religion of Kurg is a sophisticated form of animism that depends on its adherents’ belief to give strength to a clan’s warriors through the channeling of the proper spirits. Beyond that point, interpretations vary from tribe to tribe.

Weren priests offer a number of simple explanations for everyday problems. Hexes, curses, astrological predictions, and the summoning of disease by hostile prayers are widely held beliefs, especially among the nomadic marrizhe-herders. The details of these beliefs vary, but the position of priest is one of the few in weren society with as much prestige as that of warrior. The priests watch over the sacred combats of the faith’s high holy days and perform ceremonial bloodletting that purifies a clan’s warriors. These religious festivals sometimes become little more than drunken riots, as the weren argue points of doctrine and the merits or interpretation of each individual combat. Few outsiders can withstand the sheer noise of a weren religious gathering.