From the AC:DM CD Lore __NOEDITSECTION__Dereth: Morningthaw PY 11 / Earth: April 2000 In Morningthaw, darkness and blood flooded the land in equal measures. The month began inauspiciously enough. The pent-up tension of the previous month, the feeling of a wave about to crash against the rocks, hovered still over the heads of all. The clouds still raced, the moons still loomed, and the figure of the Demon still appeared during storms…yet no Shadow activity broke the oppressive quiet. The biggest news was the murder of the Banderling thief known as Gertarh. In the desert, Hamud ibn Rafik fought a personal battle with the forces of Darkness, and it did not go well with him. “We no longer fear our mortality,” he wrote his daughter Devana, “but rest assured there still exist things worse than d