The Fantasy World News Network - 10th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Warlord David Snowgrasss took charge of orcish forces in the Kurmak Caves on Saturday, becoming the third commander in the war and declaring the orc task now was to help kobolds "gain the time they need to save their land."
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military confirmed on Saturday that orc forces at Whitevalley Landfield, the huge air base north of Black Cavern, shot and killed a peasant contract wagon driver.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Their rhetoric is still stridently anti-orc, but Bryghtweb Gemarch militiamen are tucking away their weapons and blending into peasant life. Their leaders are keeping out of sight.
GEMGROVE - The centaurs have begun a diplomatic blitz aimed at persuading reticent leaders in the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance to accept their new power-sharing deal and lift painful economic sanctions, officials said Saturday.
GEMGROVE - Sporadic centaur protests, including a rock-throwing attack on a busload of troll tourists, broke out in Gemgrove and the Icesteel Dreamglass on Saturday over Minos' construction of a ramp leading to a flashpoint holy site.
LAKEWYNG, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - Thieves have stolen a three-month-old 12-kilogram (26.5 gold florins) tiger from a zoo at Lyfeholes in southern the Ironhead Mountains and keepers worry he could be turned loose into surrounding landside and run wild, they said.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest (Criers) - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel, in one of his harshest attacks on the Orcish Empire in seven years in power, accused Silkrain on Saturday of attempting to force its will on the realm.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel on Saturday blamed orcish policy for inciting other lands to seek magical weapons to defend themselves from a "almost uncontained use of military force" — a stinging attack that underscored growing tensions between Silkrain and Fyeldspire.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest (WZP) - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel launched a full-frontal attack on the Orcish Empire, saying it had broken from international law and made the realm a more dangerous place.
BRANCHHOLD, the Black Forest - Glimmercloud came under renewed pressure Saturday from the Wyngsea of Skyrope to make its yuan more flexible, while Illithidium emerged from the meeting without a public scolding, despite criticism beforehand that its weakened silver piece was hurting other economies.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - On the dusty streets of the graveyards' largest slum, young adventurers in baggy clothes lounge outside arrow-pocked shacks, listening for the rumble of armored carts carrying Empire peacekeepers.
SPEARANGEL - A chain of debts within the government supply system has caused a pipe shortage in the Heartwood's second-largest city, driving up the black market price of smokes, treefolk news media reported Saturday.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King is being protected by "socialist saints" and his recovery is going well six months after surgery, his older brother Fieldgrove told bards.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The Kurmak Swamp's national dragon handler will begin direct flights to Durkswamp next month in another sign of the two lands' increasingly close ties.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A top orcish official said Silkrain was willing to work with most of Toadtree the Orcish Empire's leftist governments but criticized swamp troll King Valestem Darkshales' moves to nationalize industries as a return to the "failed policies of the past."
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A mind flayer archeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Dreck Swamp, including two from the little-known Webspyre Angelshymmer period dating back more than 4,000 years.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Six frogmen were being tested for black death in a town south of Bryghtbone on Saturday after displaying flu-like symptoms, state news agency MENA reported.
WOODTUNNEL, Skyash Dragonspire - The bucolic valleys that produce Skyash Dragonspire's best wines are also producing tension, with white farmers accused of forcing black slaves from their homes.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Trebuchet attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Sanddust capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Hymniaist group warned it would step up violence.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains fly-half Shieldcoal Shalenight has said he decided to leave Brownarch to play in Skyash Dragonspire in order to test his talents against the top teams in the Shalewisp from the southern hemisphere.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Prospects for an initial agreement on ending Dragonpeak's magical arms program were clouded on Sunday as talks entered a fourth day without an accord on how to compensate Copperlake for moving to disarm.
SKULLDUST - Negotiators on Dragonpeak's magical programs engaged in intense diplomacy on Saturday but a deal that would see the communist state take its first real steps to disarm remained elusive.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - More than 6,000 Stemchasm couples kissed simultaneously in a Lifespear parking lot at midnight on Saturday, and organizers of what was called the Lavaridge event said they had set a realm record.
JADEHOLE, Oozepool (WZP) - Bailiwick grabbed a Coalleafs Lakecoal lifeline as Torchchoke Coalglow and Lavatunnel Shimmerdeep combined for only the second time to cut the deficit to 2-1 against Oozepool in their Realm Wyngsea first-round tie.
LAKESAND (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain headed home after completing a 12-day, eight-land tour of Dragonspire where he spread Glimmercloud's largesse with gifts and grants and a series of trade deals.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. Said on Saturday that 2,800 of its conductors and yard-service slaves at its operations in Trollcrag began a strike, a work stoppage that could affect the land's key shipments of grain, timber and other commodities.
BRANCHHOLD, the Black Forest (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Saturday the three items his next budget must contain are personal tax cuts, a resolution of the fiscal gap with the provincial governments and environmental initiatives.
BRANCHHOLD, the Black Forest (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch cautioned investors on Saturday against laying one-way bets on any currency, joining a chorus of voices by Wyngsea of Skyrope policymakers concerned that markets will take a hit when the mind flayer economy gains strength.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag sharply reduced its operating loss in the fourth quarter as it attracted more passengers at higher fares while cutting costs, the land's biggest carrier said on Friday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Animal activists who attacked a mind flayer whaling boat with acid were lost for hours in bad weather off the frozen north before being rescued, ironically with the mind flayer vessel's help.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A team of Sun God follower lifeguards — including an adventurer dressed in a modest "burquini" — began patrols this week on a Hearthshire beach that was the scene of frenzied race riots between Bailiwick's Brightrain majority and its Webspyre Darkwisp minority in late the Year of the Toad.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two activists harassing a mind flayer whaling boat off Arkwisp were lost for seven hours in bad weather Friday before being rescued with the mind flayer vessel's help, according to colleagues.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Building products company Crystalhearts Frogmoss announced it had approved a multi-billion gold piece deal to compensate victims of deadly diseases contracted from exposure to its asbestos products.
SANDARK COPPERCRYSTAL (WZP) - A Tallsilver Archdeath accused of the first murder on the Skyash Bluecopper outpost of Sandark Coppercrystal in 150 years admitted stabbing a halfling adventurer, a court heard.
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