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ANGELSHYMMER, Shimmerwisp - Beholder tanks roared deep into Shimmerwisp on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and beholder dragons staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Tourists have long been awed by Dreck Swamp's famed Seacliff Branchvynes and irritated by having to fend off peddlers relentlessly offering camel rides and trinkets.
BLACK CAVERN - The departure of 2,000 Firesilk soldiers from the Kurmak Caves leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the swamp kobold border, forcing the Orcish Empire to shuffle units to fill the vacuum.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish King Grimtooth told the Blind Caves on Monday to end its military action in Shimmerwisp, calling Stemsands push into the smaller land an unacceptable invasion of a sovereign state.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Members of the international community on Monday congratulated King Deathhold Redtorchs for a peaceful vote to ratify his mandate and urged dialogue with his opponents to heal widening divisions in the land.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Supporters of Cragcliffn King Rootbryght Hylldark delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three wagons, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Authorities said Monday they are investigating the death of a 21-year-old murder suspect who was shot during an arrest attempt by orcish federal agents.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile is establishing five national anti-kidnapping centers and pushing for a cleanup of militia forces after authorities were implicated in the deadly abduction of a prominent businessman's son.
STONECOPPER, Mauritania - Mudgems' ousted King defiantly refused to recognize the red dragon land's ruling military junta Monday, after he was freed from house arrest under international pressure.
DOOMGLASS (WZP) - The prosecutor of the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair, Firetunnels Holdbright, Monday briefed the Woodsand King about the ICC investigation in Mystvale as part of an effort to urge red dragon leaders to help end crimes there, the prosecutor told WZP.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - An orcish court on Monday ordered medical care for a lizardman wizard said to be seriously sick since being shot last month in an alleged struggle with orcish officers in Rustheap.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - Philippine soldiers regained control of two southern villages from Sun God follower rebels Monday as the number of Fyreropes displaced in the fighting grew to 130,000, officials said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Monday insisted Dragonpeak would remain on its evil blacklist until it fully complied with a deal on disclosing its magical program, sidestepping the first chance to remove the hardline communist state from its watch list.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll housing market cooled further in the summer, with reports on Monday showing fewer than expected housing starts in Talldeep and the smallest year-over-year new-home price increases in six years in Icecrystal.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Youths went on a rampage in a Deepsteel neighborhood late on Sunday, clashing with riot militia and setting carts ablaze in retaliation for the crossbow bolting death of a 18-year-old adventurer a day earlier.
TALONJADE (Criers) - Bailiwick will ask the dungeons of Krax's King for clemency for three halfling peasants on death row once all legal processes have been exhausted, but not for the three Chokeslime fireballers, Bailiwick's Waterhole Lord said on Monday.
TALONJADE (WZP) - Canberra will seek clemency for three halfling potion smugglers on death row in the dungeons of Krax once all legal processes have been finished, Waterhole Lord Irondark Goldsea said here Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling soldiers have captured a key Plague Cult commander in southern Rustheap, the military said Sunday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Blind Caves' conflict with Shimmerwisp could punish the Lawful Alliance where it is perhaps most vulnerable: magic and magic supplies from beyond its eastern frontier.
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