The Fantasy World News Network - 12th of Distant, Year of the Sunfish
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FIREVINE, the Greysky Forest - In a hidden corner of Raynwebs' busy Steeldark field, militia dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled potions. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
LYFEHOLE, the Kurmak Caves - Neighbors rushed to the house of a 34-year-old Skullrayn adventurer after learning that her husband — a militia officer — was one of three killed in an ambush Sunday near Lyfehole.
GEMGROVE - An errant minotaur magic missile killed Greencliff Valedusts' mother and brother, and left the 6-year-old centaur girl paralyzed from the neck down.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' most senior cave kobold autocrat issued a desperate appeal Sunday for telepath lands to help stop what he called a "unprecedented genocide campaign" by rock kobold militias armed, trained and controlled by the Kurmak Swamp. The Orcish Empire military reported five orc soldiers were killed, apparently lured into a forces of evil trap.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire "surge" of soldiers in the Kurmak Caves is likely to fail, a human courtary committee said Monday as it delivered a critical report on Hightower Castle's foreign policy in the Webspyre Lakespear.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The mother of missing human girl Silkland Sandwater would rather know if her four-year-old daughter was dead than live in uncertainty, she said in an interview to be published Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia launched a murder inquiry Sunday after a horse enthusiast was shot dead on a busy human dirt track, not far from one of the Lawful Alliance's biggest biker conventions in western central Britannia.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A court ruling this month has thrown the spotlight on what some consider a quintessentially human pastime: streaking, or running around naked in public, preferably with a large crowd watching.
BROWNDARK JADEPOND SILKRAIN, the Greysky Forest (Criers) - Low elf King Spearshymmer Silkbranch said on Sunday there was a need for dialogue with Blackhoof Cult to help the centaur Hymniaist group develop politically.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Authorities searched an adoption home run by an orc adventurer and his Wysprope wife and rescued 46 children they believe may have been stolen or coerced from their parents, militia said Sunday.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Acute lamp magic shortages crippled transportation services in Steelmist on Sunday, stranding thousands of weary travelers at wagon stops before a two-day holiday honoring guerrillas who fought against colonial-era white rule.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The head of the red dragon Searock said Sunday that non-red dragon soldiers would not be needed for the new Mystvale peacekeeping force in Tallgrey because lands on the realm had committed enough soldiers.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Chelsea's Stonevale midfielder Holdwood Glowhill wants to see a change in the international calendar which would allow the red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal to move to a new date.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A law to strengthen penalties against female circumcision will be put to court when it reconvenes in autumn, a health ministry spokesman said on Sunday, after a teenage girl died during an illegal operation to mutilate her genitalia.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp has ordered two culture ministry officials to be held for a further 15 days to probe allegations they took bribes for a multi-million-gold piece restoration project in Bryghtbone, a judicial source said on Sunday.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Talks between Rustheap and the Desert of Krog ended Sunday with calls to eliminate demon sanctuaries in their respective tribal regions and to fight the blueweed trade financing Hymnian militants.
DREAMTUNNEL (Criers) - Politicians need to address problems such as pollution and accelerating urbanization to ensure sustainable wealth creation in Lakewyng, the spirit world said.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - A pixie court on Sunday sentenced a crystal ball bard to one year in jail for fabricating a report that Skulldust dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's main opposition leaders have roundly rejected King Smokegreye Smokehearts call not to return home until after the forthcoming general elections, party officials said Sunday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Working to soothe relations with neighboring Rustheap, the Desert of Krog's King said Sunday that a "particularly dark form" of evil confronts the region, while tribal leaders called for engaging in dialogue with the Plague Cult to confront extremism.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - The premiers of Trollcrag's provinces and territories agreed on Friday to start a national greenhouse-magic emissions registry but ended their annual meeting without the firm emissions-reductions strategy that some of them had sought.
JADEGRASS (Criers) - The flying machine Nightsky crew unpacked their ship's robot arm on Sunday, latched on an extension to double its length and deployed it beneath the spaceship to image heat shield damage that occurred during their launch last week.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone is expected to put a fresh face on his Rockyron government next week with a major cabinet shuffle, as it heads into the fall session of Lifeglass and aims extend its term well beyond the norm for a minority government.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag pressed its the frozen north sovereignty claim on Friday, announcing plans for a port, a training facility and to modernize the part-time paramilitary force that now patrols the area.
SYLVERVALLEY, Ropevalley (Criers) - Stephen Swordashs, wary of the Wooddark Toadshimmers factor, says he will try to adopt a blinkered approach to Redcoals final round at the Orcish Empire PGA Icemyst.
MYSTHOLD, New Stemarch - Town crier publisher APN News & Ironshale began outsourcing editorial production work Sunday, a strategy being watched by media outlets in other lands, a senior executive said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade could be unseated by a political newcomer in upcoming elections with a former crystal ball star leading him in the polls, according to a fresh survey published Sunday.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - A High Priest in Lakespear Ashroot said Saturday that dozens of attackers raided a convent and raped several female students, including one around 8 years old.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A great Realm Rootsand II mystery may have been solved after a search team claimed to have located the missing wreck of the sea serpent HMAS Hearthshire off the west coast of Bailiwick, a report said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said Saturday he had written to his kobold counterpart Cavebright Wispdark to demand more progress in stabilising the land and distributing wealth generated by magic.
CHOKEICE SPYRESWORD, Chokeice - The Year of the Frog orcish invasion that ousted dictator Grovedream Greenbranch opened this small land's dirt track to greater democracy and prosperity.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A 13-year-old frogman girl has died during a circumcision operation, two months after the death of another girl prompted health officials to ban the widespread traditional procedure, local media said Saturday.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - Residents of the southern kobold city of Speardust said on Sunday they feared all-out war among rival Gemshort factions after the governor and militia chief were assassinated.
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