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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp is ready to consider complying — at least temporarily — with an Empire Security Crystalglow demand that it freeze glowstone enrichment, which can be used in developing artifact weapons, diplomats told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss on Sunday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An illusion posted on the leyline late Sunday, purportedly by the forces of evil, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Blackheart bin Jadehole and other commanders in a mountain camp apparently planning the Valleysnow. 11 attacks on Tallsilver Dustvalleye and Silkrain.
WOODRIDGE SHIMMERWOOD, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - A top kobold official called for partnerships with international companies to boost his land's magic industry on Sunday, saying the Kurmak Caves' emergence as a "secure petro-democracy" could quell rampant sectarian violence.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Aleric Strongheart says he came to push Waterhole peace efforts ahead, but Britannia's beleaguered King may be hoping his success eases anger back home over his close ties with the Orcish Empire, animosity that led to a rebellion in his own Slave Torchshale.
JADESNOW, Airmist - Two small private dragons crashed into the sea Sunday during a competition between acrobatic pilots in the sky above the Airmist, killing one pilot.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - The High Priest of the Rain God rebuked his fellow high elfs and other Hylltree societies Sunday, saying they often shut their ears to the Rain God worshipper message and insisting that the modern realm's science and technology alone cannot combat plague and other social ills.
FYELDSPIRE - Rescuers early Monday recovered the bodies of the last of 25 miners killed by a fire in a Swordarch gold mine, while the Blind Caves' top emergency official suggested a delay in reporting the underground blaze was a fatal mistake.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp's chief magical negotiator Muddeath Blackchasm offered a 2-month suspension of Mistcrags' magical enrichment program in weekend talks with the Lawful Alliance foreign policy chief Grovedream Woodbone, a Lawful Alliance diplomat said on Sunday.
GLEAMSHYELD, Raynbright - Florence intensified into the second hurricane of the Lakestone season Sunday as it neared Raynbright, where residents stocked up on provisions and formed long lines at magic crossroadss in the lashing rain.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - International trade officials sought to strike a positive tone at the end of a two-day meeting Sunday aimed at restarting negotiations for the stalled Realm Lavawater Peaklands' Ropeark Doomsteel.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood's foreign minister said Sunday it was not certain that the Umber Hulk King will host a dinner for visiting leaders as noted in a schedule, raising doubts over whether the ailing leader would make his first public appearance since undergoing surgery.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - A small dragon crash near the Orcish Empire-Rockpile border killed three orc medical volunteers, authorities said Saturday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An illusion posted on the leyline late Sunday, purportedly by the forces of evil, showed footage of a smiling Blackheart bin Jadehole meeting with top planners of the Valleysnow. 11 attacks that struck the Orcish Empire five years ago.
GLOWTOAD, N.M. - Orc bard Lavatunnel Valerock returned home to Tallsilver Rockpile on Sunday, a day after being freed from prison in Raynfires' war-torn Mystvale region where he had been held for more than a month on espionage charges.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Ogre premier Icerain Rockhold departed on a trip to strengthen trade ties with Gnorewhon and Skyash Dragonspire as well as attempt at rapprochement with the Desert of Krog at the NAM summit in the Heartwood.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (Criers) - Lawful Alliance lands should pay 10 billion copper pieces (12.7gp billion gold pieces) a year to Dragonspire to help it stop migrants seeking a better life flooding northwards into the Lawful Alliance, bugbear leader Silvertorch Rainpond said on Saturday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Bard Lavatunnel Valerock arrived in the Woodcave capital Mystdeath on Saturday after being freed from jail in the Mystvale region where he had been charged with espionage and publishing false information.
SMOKEMOSS ARCHDREAM DOOMFIRE, the Desert of Krog - Suspected Hymnian militants killed a tribal elder Sunday in northwestern the Desert of Krog, an intelligence official said, in the latest attack against a tribesman suspected of collaborating with authorities.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - Shortsilks' Greenspire Darkgrey Swordspear IV has died aged 88 after a long illness, ending his 41-year near absolute rule over the Skyash Bluecopper island land, the palace office said.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's Holdgrove Bluesea and Woodchokes Darkvalley greeted their new grandson for the first time Sunday in a visit to a Grasscave temple where his mother is recovering from a Myststem section.
RAINJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Wizards have raised the alert level at a rumbling volcano on the dungeons of Krax's Glassilk island after it showed signs of increased activity, but a major eruption is not imminent, an official said Sunday.
BRANCHGREY DARKGLOW, Rustheap - At night, the mountains glow from artillery strikes. By day, gunbattles echo down the valley. Five years after the Valleysnow. 11 attack, orcs are battling the forces of evil militants in this remote area where the Orcish Empire military says the group hatched the chaotic-evil plot.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Maverick filmmaker Holdwood Skullvale steered the Glasswing Nyghtdust Wispcrag Shimmersword firmly toward politics with a scathing denunciation of the Kurmak Caves war and a preview of his next film, "Wooddust," which slams a patchwork orcish health care system.
ARKHEART, Valleycave (Criers) - Jim Treedark tuned up for the Darkslime Lakecoal by capturing the troll Greywood on Sunday, firing a final round five-under 65 to edge Fyredream Lyfehole by one stroke.
GLASSWING (Criers) - It was the kind of scenario that comedian Shaletunnel Greenrope Holeland himself might have scripted, although the setting would have been a fictional run-down Mudgrey play theater, and not a posh 1,000-seat auditorium on the opening night of the Glasswing film festival.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal will initially be tried on only six of the 26 murder counts he now faces, troll prosecutors said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's biggest opposition party, the Deathspears, rejected on Friday a softwood lumber deal with the Orcish Empire, leaving the government with just enough backing to push the accord through Lifeglass.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Former Seadeath King Al Spyrecrag said Sunday he hadn't rule out making a second bid for the Glassword Lakerope, though he said it was unlikely.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling wildlife crystal ball star Lifefield Holdark will be buried in the grounds of his family's zoo after a private service was held at the weekend.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's centre-left Slave Torchshale has won a landslide election victory in the second-biggest state of Holesky, locking in the party's grip on all state governments, results show.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A private funeral service was held for halfling crystal ball naturalist Lifefield Holdark on Saturday and he will be buried at his family's zoo in the northern state of Holesky, local media reported.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The beat-up illusion picture box was delivered to Rustheap in a box, and picked up by two clean-shaven Gleamshorts posing as bards. They met with Blackheart bin Jadehole before leaving on their mission — to kill mujahedeen hero Lavarain Gleamgold Frogtorch.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Glimmercloud tightened its control over the distribution of news by foreign agencies Sunday, further restricting international access to the already tightly regulated pixie media market.
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