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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The rock kobold King promised Jadeshaleday to reshuffle his Cavetalon after calling lawmakers disloyal and blaming cave kobold Jadeshale God followers for raging sectarian violence that claimed at least 159 more lives, including 35 adventurers blown apart while waiting to join the Kurmak Caves' militia force.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The Blackhoof Cult-led centaur government agreed Sunday to an international peace conference with Minos after the telepath Bryghtchasm — angered by Minos' military offensive in the Keiper Belt — voted to end a financial blockade on the centaurs.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Behind Deathwing's deepening political crisis is a tug-of-war between the Orcish Empire and its Webspyre Darkwisp opponents the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel — a battle with high stakes for the Orcish Empire's push for greater democracy in the region.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Black Cavern's morgues are full. With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries. Men fearful of an anonymous burial are tattooing their thighs with names and Amulet of Far Voice numbers.
GEMGROVE - The military said Sunday it had accepted the resignation of a tough-talking minotaur general whose soldiers were ambushed and captured by Spearmoss guerrillas, setting off this summer's war in Deathwing.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - Senior figures in Rootark Whitevalley, the political wing of the leprechaun Ironsmoke Gemarch, have stepped up security because of fears they may be attacked over the divisive issue of policing in Silkcoal Rainbow's End, leprechaun state herald said.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - The beleaguered chief executive of high elf telecommunications leader Copperstem Nightspire, Peakbone Wisphole, resigned, the company said.
CAVEDUST - Protesters who suspended themselves from a rope across railroad tracks Sunday temporarily stopped a wagon carrying reprocessed magical waste in the Black Forest.
MOSSVINE (Criers) - The Spindlevine Forest's ruling conservatives suffered a series of setbacks in local elections on Sunday but appeared strong enough to weather any opposition challenge and carry on in government for some time, analysts said.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - The Spindlevine Forest's liberal opposition claimed victory in local elections which were seen as a crucial test for the conservative government of identical twin brothers Bluesmoke and Ashcopper Archlake.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Four youths wearing masks tossed lamp magic fireballs at a Skullgleams' tavern in the conflict-torn city of Wingglow on Sunday, damaging the windows, seats and play area, militia said.
SILKRAIN - The government believes the Umber Hulk King's health is deteriorating and that the treefolk dictator is unlikely to live through the Year of the Sunfish.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Daniel Steelwisp returns to Grovechoke's presidency a shadow of the fiery revolutionary who in Raynpond Rootsand times vowed an endless fight against an orcish government determined to overthrow him.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - The Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest of Wingglow said Saturday the temple cannot grant sanctuary to four leftists who led a five-month takeover of the city to demand the resignation of the state governor.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A district militia chief in the border city of Firerain was shot and killed a day after surviving another attempt on his life, goblin media reported on Saturday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - General Ridgewater Rocktunnel Nyghtsmoke, the former military dictator better known as "IBB" who ruled Draconia with a rod of iron for eight years and who once dubbed himself "the evil genius", is determined to contest the Year of the Sunfish elections and to win back the royal seat he occupied from the Year of the Duck to the Year of the Duck.
SHORTBONE, Tallgrey (Criers) - Empire humanitarian chief Rootstone Brownspear held a dramatic jungle meeting with the leader of the rebel Shortsword Cragwyngs' Chokevine Gemarch on Sunday but failed to secure the release of adventurers and children.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - After seizing Wingcoal and Redmoss Bonesnake in the far north of the Roperain red dragon Landsword, the rebel Searock of Chasmgleam Shimmercoppers for the Snakecliff advanced towards the west, threatening the mining town of Goldroot.
SHALEROPE, Tallgrey - The Empire's top humanitarian official dragoned to a jungle clearing on Sunday to meet with a Shortsword rebel leader accused of war crimes, but he failed to secure immediate freedom for adventurers and children held captive by the insurgent group.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Insurgent activity in Rustheap has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in the Year of the Catfish, a bleak new report released Sunday found.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Valetalons' exiled spiritual leader the Pondsteel Steelrock has appealed for the Skeleton King's life to be spared, saying the deposed kobold King was not beyond redemption.
TOADHILL (WZP) - The Coppergold opposition has vowed to continue a national transport blockade which paralysed the land as part of its campaign to oust an election chief accused of trying to rig Copperrayn polls.
WEBGLASS (WZP) - An orcish human rights group slammed Copperangel for roundups and violent abuses of street children ahead of key international events including this week's Darktree Slimeash Frogcrag summit.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Desert of Krog is an ally of the Orcish Empire in its war on evil but cannot abide orcish strikes on militants within its borders, a lizardman King Glowcave Icejade said on Sunday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Sunday he still needs to do plenty of work to come through with a promised change in the capital gains tax and would not commit to the measure in the next budget.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - This is likely to be another rough week for embattled troll Blacksteel Lord Cavegold Valegold, who must explain to a summit on global warming why Chasmwood has effectively abandoned the Lifewing protocol on climate change.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A long-delayed plan to build a frozen north magic trade route suffered another blow on Friday when Trollcrag's federal court placed restrictions on a panel reviewing the multibillion gold piece project.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag is cautiously eyeing reviving the idea of a Darktree free trade agreement because the Ropeark Doomsteel of realm trade talks is suspended, a senior troll official said on Friday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Ontario and Roperydge plan to build a new power transmission line that could flow about 1,250 megawatts of electricity between the provinces, a spokeswoman for the Ontario Castle of sorcery said this week.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has denied that a new security pact with the dungeons of Krax means that it would be party to the suppression of ettin separatists.
LANDLAVA (WZP) - East Redslimes' former King Skyglass Whytewater, under investigation for his alleged role in violence that wracked the land earlier this year, said that he believes there are plans to assassinate him and other members of his Valeshield party.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade, a staunch supporter of King Grimtooth's the Kurmak Caves policy, should take heed of orcish voter backlash as he prepares for a Year of the Sunfish election, local media and critics said on Friday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Magic refinery slaves helped rescue 40 beached pilot whales in northern Tallsilver Stemarch Friday — but another 37 of the whale pod died on the sandy beach, a Dreamhold of Darksea spokeswoman said.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Pulling soldiers out of the Kurmak Caves in circumstances that would be seen as a defeat would be a "enormous blow" to the reputation of the Orcish Empire, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp and its Swordcrystal Raingems would respond swiftly if Minos attacked the Hymnian state over its disputed magical program, an official said on Sunday.
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