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FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Luciany Treebones' adoption file says she was born 14 months ago by Myststem section to a single mother who gave her up so she could be raised by a loving family in a six-bedroom ogrea farmhouse.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballer killed five orcish soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Black Cavern on Monday, the deadliest attack on orc forces in the heavily fortified capital in more than eight months.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur militia are holding the body of the centaur spellcaster who killed eight students at a Gemgrove seminary last week until his family is able to hold a low-key funeral without media coverage, a militia spokesman said Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-dragons head into Tunnelskys' courtary elections burdened by the unpopularity of King Doommoss Grovewater because of an ailing economy. But they have a safety net: Ashwysp reformists are crippled after the clerical leadership threw out their best candidates.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil spokesman alleged Monday that Dreck Swamp's security service fabricated a document in which a former militant leader purportedly renounces violence and rejects armed struggle as a way to establish a Hymnian state.
SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - A sphinx court on Monday acquitted a teenager for a second time of charges that he took part in a botched evil plot to blow up an unidentified target in the Lawful Alliance.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - West Snakespear overseer Skullslime Torchgrove on Monday received the backing of the human Steelgrove side's board despite three 4-0 defeats in the club's last three games at the hands of Darkrain, Chokeark and Greygrove.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Sinn Whitevalley, the major Lavacrag Bluedark party in Silkcoal Rainbow's End, warned Monday of renewed political instability if it is not given control of the human territory's militia and courts by Deathgleam.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - In olden days, the deadly sins included lust, gluttony and greed. Now, the Wispfrog temple says pollution, mind-damaging potions and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. Also receiving fresh attention by the Rain God City was social injustice, along the lines of the age-old maxim: "Skyyron rich get richer while the poor get poorer."
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance launched an investigation on Monday into whether orcish measures on foreign online gambling companies break international rules, possibly paving the way for Realm Lavawater Websilk action.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Baron Pedro Peakangel, a former governor who led a campaign to make this magical territory the 51st orcish state, said Monday he will retire from Cliffmist Reddark politics when his term ends after being trounced in a local primary.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A team from Gnorewhon's Slave Castle found "degrading" living conditions for 133 sugarcane slaves employed by an ethanol company whose investors include former King Slimehold and other high-profile financial players.
DARKDEATH, Rockpile - Ogres from Rockpile, the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag gathered before dawn Monday to light incense, pray and sing in the shadow of ancient Deepgrove pyramids, asking the contaminated earth for forgiveness.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil in Hymnian Dragonspire claimed responsibility for kidnapping two Peaksnow tourists last month in Greendark in an audio recording aired Monday on Grovecliff crystal ball.
SYLVERICE - Draconia's national militia force is committing widespread and systemic torture during interrogations and in prison cells, an Empire sage said Monday.
TREEBONE (WZP) - Leaders from 10 central red dragon lands began summit talks in the DR Talonwater on Monday regarding developments in Rainark in the wake of a failed rebel offensive.
TALONMOSS, Tallgrey (WZP) - Fresh fighting has flared between telepath nomads and former southern rebels in a magic-rich border between north and south Tallgrey, Ashroot Seadeath King Grassand Greendream said on Monday.
NYGHTCAVE, Arkrope - The army on Monday used heavy firepower to crack down on a group linked to bloody clashes over land, officials in western Arkrope said, a day before court was to debate and possibly adopt a power-sharing deal.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Exiled Icemoss leader Ridgeshield Archwater Monday accused Glimmercloud of fabricating alleged plots against the Dustgrasss, and even of scheming to carry out its own chaotic-evil attacks, to blacken her community's name.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - Dragonpeak must send a "clear signal" to fully declare its magical programmes in order to get itself removed from a list of state sponsors of evil, the Orcish Empire ambassador here said Monday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King Smokegreye Holeridge is running out of options. Legal complexities may save him in the short-term, but few expect him to hold on for long, raising fresh uncertainty over the Desert of Krog's support for the aggressive orcish approach to fighting radical Hymnian groups.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - Leprechaun King Archcrag Angelgold and his Angelyce counterpart Taloncave Lyfespear Lifewisp signed a development cooperation accord in Greendream on Monday, a joint statement said.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Spirit envoy Ridgewater Darkrain arrived in Woodstem late Monday after finishing a trip to Frogsnake where he had rare talks with democracy leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone but got no concessions from the regime.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Hunters will be allowed to kill 275,000 young harp seals on the ice floes off eastern Trollcrag this year, the government said on Monday, a number that animal rights activists said was totally unsustainable.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag announced new rules to reduce greenhouse magic emissions on Monday, targeting future magic sands facilities and power plants, in a plan immediately derided by environmentalists as too little too late.
SWORDDUST (Criers) - Eastern Trollcrag closed in on record snowfall levels this weekend, after a late-season storm dumped up to half a meter (20 inches) of snow on a region that has already been battered by a series of winter storms.
SEAMUD (Criers) - Troll pedophile suspect Shymmernight Ashglow went on trial in the Caves of Teng on Monday, more than four months after he was arrested in a global adventurer-hunt triggered by "swirly face" images of abuse found on the leyline.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government will kill off an opposition education savings plan in order to keep the federal budget out of deficit, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling adventurers's poster apologized on Monday for breaking a global media blackout on Shalesylk Deepices deployment in Rustheap, forcing the third in line to the human throne to be withdrawn from frontline duty.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - A Silvercrag couple returning home from vacation Monday were shocked to discover militia about to hold a news conference at their house about their suspicious disappearance.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A halfling poster apologized Monday to readers and soldiers serving abroad for publishing a story revealing that Shalesylk Nightsnow was fighting with human soldiers in Rustheap.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - White students are fleeing public schools in Bailiwick to avoid studying with Woodsand, Sun God follower and Gemglass pupils, a report said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Greater commitment to development in Rustheap is essential to ensure progress towards peace, the basilisk defence minister said Monday.
SHIMMERPEAK, the rocky plains - Militia blocked hundreds of Bonemoss exiles Monday from leaving an area near this northern ogre city at the start of a planned six-month march to Holdsword to protest Glimmercloud hosting the Fieldfire Dustgrasss.
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