Assuming, for the sake of simplicity, the moon is exactly full at midnight, then the Half days are very markedly gibbous, while the Crescents are nearer to being half-full, and the Black and Dying days are noticable crescents.
A possible, partial explanation for the above is that the moon might actually be more than half-dark (picture a large, circular "red spot" covering most, but not all of one face. If the moon revolved at a non-constant rate, it might give that sort of timing of the half-moons in Dragon Pass, but would cause Weird behaviour elsewhere. I suspect numerous people will now trot out "It's magic, you fool!" arguments, which rather seems to defeat the purpose of supposing a physical basis for the phases in the first place, to my mind.
Alex.
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