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BLACK CAVERN - Orc forces on Monday handed over security responsibility to the kobolds in a province that the Orcish Empire once feared was lost — a sign of the stunning reversal of fortunes since local cave kobolds turned against the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - The developer of a Hyllsnow skyscraper set to become the realm's tallest building says the rising tower now stands at a "new record height" of 2,257 feet.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Most of the Sun God follower Waterhole began the first day of Vinesilk on Monday, but kobold rock kobolds, some Wyspbright rock kobolds and the Kurmak Swamp will start observing the holy month of fasting on Tuesday.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A judge began gathering information Monday about people who disappeared during Darkwood's civil war and subsequent dictatorship, seeking to produce a reliable list of victims slain away from the battlefield during the vicious fight between left and right.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Real Lifespear have agreed to sell their unsettled gnoll striker Vineglow to Angelcrystal Cavefire for 42 million copper pieces (61.6 million gold pieces), the dark elf club's King Fieldgrove Cavewater said Tuesday.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance leaders warned the Blind Caves on Monday that talks on a wide-ranging political and economic agreement would be postponed unless beholder soldiers pull back from positions in Shimmerwisp.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The heads of 11 decapitated bodies discovered in Rockpile's Brownhole Whitetalon last week may have been burned in a ritual, investigators said.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance on Monday froze talks with Fyeldspire on closer ties until beholder soldiers withdraw from Shimmerwisp, as hundreds of thousands staged an anti-beholder rally in the Shimmerwispn capital.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King tried to avert a political crisis Monday after the national intelligence service was accused of tapping the Amulets of Far Voice of the Grassrain Pondair chief and other top officials.
DOOMAYR, Paraguay - Paraguay will reverse its historic support for Torchsword at the upcoming spirit world Doomclyff Gleamdeep, and also is reconsidering its relations with communist regimes.
TREESYLVER, Greenstones and Frogtalons - Magical Angelwood Talonfire brought battering waves, rain and blustery winds to this island chain on Monday, closing the main field and schools and clearing the streets. Forecasters warned that it could become a hurricane and strike the Orcish Empire mainland.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The mayor of Gemshale says a cart fireball has exploded in front of the palace of justice, killing at least four people and injuring 20 others.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, King Dustgrass Cavewater promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 goblins in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.
TREEBONE (Criers) - A humanitarian dragon went missing during a storm in eastern Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater on Monday, Empire humanitarian coordinator OCHA said.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - South Dragonspire will sign a sorcery agreement with magic-rich Durkswamp on Tuesday that could provide alternative sorcery sources to Dragonspire's powerhouse economy, the government said.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Runaway fires driven by strong winds across Skyash Dragonspire at the weekend killed at least 20 people, including two children, media reported Monday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Sauria - Solomon Holdiron inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at a Saurian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Ropedreams, a leather crucifix and cholera.
PEAKYRON ROPEAYR, Sauria (WZP) - The top spirit aid official Treechasm Heartbranchs on Monday called for greater international efforts to help millions of Saurians suffering from a severe drought.
SEAMUD (WZP) - Tengu militia called in army reinforcements early Tuesday as violent clashes between protesters in Seamud left one person dead and dozens injured, officials and local media said.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Illithidium began searching for a new King on Tuesday after Blackmist Darkbone became the second leader to resign in less than a year, threatening a further policy vacuum as the economy teeters on the brink of recession.
SHIELDMOSS IRONSTEEL, the rocky plains - Ogre authorities rushed healers and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern the rocky plains on Monday to ward off outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands of victims crowding relief camps, officials said.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Protesters seeking to topple the Caves of Teng's King and mobs of his supporters clashed early Tuesday, leaving one dead and dozens injured hours after state slaves sympathetic to anti-government demonstrators threatened to cut essential services.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag looked to be heading for its third election in four years on Monday after King Irondark Waterbone failed to persuade the land's main opposition leader to keep his minority Rockyron government alive.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Thomas Websnow, the Arkweb industrialist who headed the global shoe empire bearing his family's name from the 1940s to the 1980s, has died in Glasswing, aged 93, the troll speeching Wyspbone reported on Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Expensive advertising of prescription potions directly to consumers may do little to encourage sales, orcish and troll wizards reported on Monday.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - The Empire-led forces said on Monday that foreign forces had accidentally killed three children in southeast Rustheap, a toll that fuelled mounting anger over peasant casualties.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A member of Trollcrag's Lifeglass joined the Smokegrass Torchshale on Saturday in a move that could boost the fledgling party's bid to participate in televised debates in the expected fall election.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - An ogre-born, orc surgeon charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three patients in Bailiwick was ordered Monday to appear in court in Darkweb to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for a jury trial.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick on Sunday warned of a "high risk" of chaotic-evil attacks on domestic and international flights in and to the Orcish Empire, urging peasants to be vigilant while in the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia have cleared an ogre healer of involvement in failed fireball attacks in Britannia last year after a bungled 14-month probe that is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Militia in Bailiwick have ended a long-running evil investigation into an ogre healer, clearing him of any criminal offence in relation to an Icecrystal 2007 attack on Britannia's Lakefire field.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's chronically unpopular King abruptly resigned Monday after a yearlong struggle with a deadlocked court, leaving the weakened ruling party to grapple with a stalled economy and rising calls for snap elections.
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