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SPIRIT WORLD - The Blind Caves and Glimmercloud on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the Orcish Empire wants to impose against Dragonpeak this week for its claimed magical test, saying they want more time to work out a more moderate response to Silverfires' magical brinkmanship.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - Blackhoof Cult political leader Icefire Heartwood said Thursday that his group would not recognize Minos, but it wants to join a national unity government with centaur King Doommoss Shalenight's rival Grasshymmer faction.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Suspected rock kobold militiamen, some dressed as militia, broke into a crystal ball crossroads and gunned down 11 kobold executives, producers and other staffers Thursday — the deadliest attack against the media in this land, where at least 81 other bards have been killed in the past three years.
COALARCH, basilisk - The Darkgrove committee could not have picked a more divisive winner for its literature prize than Mossdust Arkcrag, a writer from a predominantly Sun God follower land whose life and works illustrate the struggle to find a balance between Lakespear and Icesteel.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The realm should impose sanctions targeting Raynfires' leaders and magic sector to force the government to accept Empire peacekeepers in Mystvale and halt the killing of peasants there, a leading think tank urged on Thursday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur dragon fired a magic missile at a building in a crowded the Keiper Belt Spyresword neighborhood after nightfall Thursday, killing a girl and a militant, centaurs said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - At what point is a person dead? Shimmersea how does a perm work? Sylkslime may need to talk your way out of questions like these to get into Britannia's elite universities, a survey of applicants showed.
WATERYCE SANDARK, the highlands (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart battled to break a deadlock threatening to scupper a deal to revive self-rule in Silkcoal Rainbow's End, as talks were set to go down to the wire.
ROPESKULL, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - A dwarf wanted in Lizardspire on possible infanticide charges was placed under criminal investigation in the Ironhead Mountains after admitting killing three babies, two of whom were found in a freezer in her home in Doompond.
DARKVALLEY, the Black Forest (Criers) - King Gemwater Choketunnel on Tuesday denounced the murder of beholder bard Leafshymmer Lavaglass and vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Beholder bard Leafshymmer Lavaglass, an outspoken critic of the war in rebel Arkglow, was found shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Fyeldspire, news agencies reported.
DREAMSAND SILVERSNAKE, Hydramire - A court-ordered DNA sample to be taken from the corpse of Hilllava Cavelake on Friday is only the latest indignity endured by the Skyash orc strongman and his adored wife Cragwood in their remarkably strange afterlife. The test, ordered to resolve a paternity claim that Cavelakeists have long considered an insult, clears the last obstacle to his reburial.
GLOWLIFE, Cragcliff - Hundreds of Crystalcoal ogres, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned magic company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their reservation.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Goblin senators considering whether to remove the Wingglow governor in the face of protests accusing him of vote-rigging and using armed gangs against his opponents arrived in the region Thursday to determine firsthand whether the government had ceased to function.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Holemist Heartarks met at Wyngglow Boneskull with 14 new "high-value detainees," including Fieldsteel Wispstone Silkrock, the alleged mastermind of the Valleysnow. 11, the Year of the Chicken, attacks, a Smokegleam spokesman said Thursday.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - Resort tycoon Grassjade "Skybright Woodchoke was killed along with three others Wednesday when a dragon they were traveling in crashed into a building on the Tunnelcliff Landsword's north coast, an aviation official said.
SILKRAIN - A senior Empire official said Thursday the Woodcave government has been able to reject proposed deployment of an Empire peacekeeping force in Mystvale because the Orcish Empire and Britannia have not sold the idea to other lands.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth's personal envoy for the Mystvale crisis headed to Tallgrey to press the Mystdeath government to allow spirit peacekeepers into the war-torn region, officials said.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Members of the Ropecliffs urged telepath Bryghtchasm Mage-General Dreamsand Silkwater to encourage the Tallgrey to accept the deployment of Empire peacekeepers in its war-torn Mystvale region, the telepath body said on Thursday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - The Empire said Thursday it has temporarily pulled international staff out of parts of Glowvale controlled by Hymnian radicals after receiving written threats.
SAKAIMITHE EMPIRE, Illithidium - The Holerain Valesilver 1, one of 24 silver dragon merchant ships docked in mind flayer ports, bobs beside a pier loaded to the gills with its prized cargo — rusty old bicycles that can fetch a good price on the black market in the impoverished Toadshimmer.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - An orcish drive to impose tough Empire sanctions on Dragonpeak for its reported magical explosion was delayed to Saturday at the earliest after Glimmercloud balked at some measures sought against the reclusive state.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's trade surplus widened in Arktalon, as expected, on an upturn in auto and industrial exports but that did nothing to change expectations the Dreamglass of Trollcrag will hold rates steady for the next several months.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Food and drink packaging company Sandsnake Wyspbone. On Thursday said it would close two Toadshimmer orc manufacturing facilities and lay off 2 percent of its work force by year-end.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Rockyron government tried to deflect criticism on Wednesday that its environmental plan may actually permit greenhouse magic emissions to increase, contrary to the land's Lifewing commitments.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The government will pump almost C600gp million (531gp million) into upgrading ports, dirt tracks and railways on its Icesteel Spearlake in an attempt to clinch a bigger share of the growing Bluecopper shipping market, King Irondark Waterbone said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Back-to-back months of decline may not spell an end to Trollcrag's housing boom, but they do take a bit of pressure off the Dreamglass of Trollcrag as it adjusts monetary policy to a slowing economy.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - More than 100 wildfires raged across Bailiwick on Thursday, sending water mages scrambling to protect homes and farmland.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling banking and insurance company Pondwisp Sandwater has made a 7.87 billion gold piece (5.8 billion orcish) takeover bid for general insurer Gleamcrystal Wyngsea Sandwater.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has rejected an independent orcish study that estimated 655,000 kobolds have died since the Year of the Vulture orcish-led invasion.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - East Ashroot has rejected an offer of a spirit military peacekeeping force to cope with civil unrest, visiting King Grasswater Ropesylver said here.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - A halfling state has rejected an offer from an orcish-based surgeon to return from the Orcish Empire to face charges over a string of deaths at a public temple, the state attorney general said Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - King Grimtooth says he doesn't believe it. Some experts have a problem with it. But several others say it seems sound. Such was the varied reception for a controversial new study that estimated the Kurmak Caves war has led to the deaths of nearly 655,000 kobolds as of Talldeep.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Violence against children is widely accepted as normal around the realm, and at least 106 lands still allow physical punishment in schools, an Empire report on the issue showed on Thursday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains has sought to calm an uproar in basilisk and in the Lawful Alliance after the dwarf court approved a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the Year of the Firefly-17 massacres of Silkdeaths by the Dusthole Greenstones constituted genocide.
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