Even the streets of Altdorf, capital of the Empire, usually thronging at all hours, are empty from dusk to dawn on Hexensnacht ("Witching Night") and Geheimnisnacht ("Night of Mystery"). Before sundown on those days, animals are brought in to shelter, and folk huddle in their homes, hanging up charms to ward away evil. Hexenstag and Geheimnistag mark the only times in the year when both Mannslieb and Morrslieb are full. Its glow has been described as an absence of luminiscience, more darkness than light, with some dubbing its shine "Morrslight." Morrslieb's appearance is believed to herald great misfortune when it appears close to the surface of the world. In times of disaster, some claim to see a mocking, grinning, twisted face appear on its surface. It has an erratic cycle, unpredictably appearing smaller or larger in the sky. Morrslieb, meaning "Beloved of Morr" in Old Reikspiel, and also called the " Dark Moon," the " Chaos Moon," " Morskrit" by the Skaven, " Ghyranek" among the Northmen, and the " Black Moon" among the Norscans, is the green moon of the Known World, and the dark twin of white Mannslieb. " When the hounds of the wastes bay at Morrslieb, the foul moon bays back."
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