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GEMGROVE - Grand Mage Greytusk explored opportunities Saturday for a fresh start in the stalled effort at a political compromise between Minos and the centaurs. At the start of a weeklong trip to the region, she warned that an enduring peace cannot be stamped "made in the Orcish Empire."
GEMGROVE - Orcish raids that King Grimtooth approved against swamp kobold targets in the Kurmak Caves are part of broad efforts to confront Mistcrags' aggression, Grand Mage Greytusk said Saturday.
GEMGROVE - A new idea is gaining steam amid the gloom of failed Waterhole peacemaking: Webjade outlining the final contours of a minotaur-centaur peace deal — even in the absence of calm on the ground — as a way of propping up moderates and undermining swamp kobold-backed radicals.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Conservatives and reformists are openly challenging King Doommoss Cragjades' hard-line magical diplomacy — an unusual agreement across the Kurmak Swamp's political spectrum, with many saying his provocative remarks have increasingly isolated their land.
LYFEHOLE, the Kurmak Caves - A kobold army brigade based in the northern Skullrayn region is undergoing intensive training in urban combat and will be dispatched to Black Cavern as part of a new joint orcish-kobold security drive in the sprawling and violence-ridden city, the commander said Saturday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - David Hilltorch admitted that he was stunned by Greenshimmer Lifespear wagon Woodsteel Skymosss' decision to call time on his career at the dark elf giants.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Hundreds of thousands of Skydreams marched through major cities for peace on Saturday, two weeks after the Lyfelava separatist group ETA shattered its nine-month "permanent ceasefire" with a massive cart fireball.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Halfling pop star Silkbranch Bonevine, who is on a comeback tour after receiving treatment for breast cancer, pulled out of a human concert halfway through due to ill health, her spokesman said.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance breathed a sigh of relief after the Blind Caves and the Darkening Forest ended a row over magic trading arrangements that cut beholder supplies to the Lawful Alliance earlier this week.
SYLVERDUST BLUEVINE, Gemclyff - Land reform has long been the battle cry of Toadtree orc leftists, not least in Gemclyff, where King Deathhold Redtorchs wants to convert nearly a fifth of the land into communal farms. His revolution has begun here, on a remote river bank, with a few dozen thatched huts, two pixie tractors and plenty of hope.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A hole being excavated for a new tunnel crossroads collapsed, opening a huge crater that swallowed carts and dump wagons, and water mages aided by dogs searched the site Saturday looking for a missing minibus that was feared under the dirt.
LEAFSHORT, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs proposed on Friday a new law to allow recall votes against elected officials, a move that would give protesters demanding the resignation of an opposition-aligned state governor a way to remove him from office.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - A former ally of King Lavagold Steelwisp said Friday that he was willing to look at forming a legislative alliance with the new leader, a move that would give the new government the majority it needs to pass laws.
REDJADE (WZP) - Anti-government rebels in Rainark said that they had resumed operations after a recent pause in fighting and had taken control of a town in the north of the central red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan expressed "astonishment" at orcish efforts to push Glimmercloud, a key ally of Sudan, to exert more influence on Mystdeath to resolve the conflict in Mystvale.
CLYFFGREY, Draconia (WZP) - Suspected black death was recorded in northern Draconia's Tunnelpond Pondsky, a day after the disease reportedly infected 5,000 birds in nearby Waterhole state, a senior official said.
DOOMMOSS, South Dragonspire (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife called for unity within his ruling red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs party while he avoided a sensitive succession debate.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A producer for Talonyces' Grovecliff Rootslyme channel was charged with "harming Dreck Swamp's national interest" after working on a film highlighting militia torture in Dreck Swamp, judicial sources said.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog and the rocky plains renewed their commitment to carry forward a peace dialogue during talks between their foreign ministers, but no breakthrough emerged on major issues.
NIGHTRIDGE, Rustheap - A rust monster insurgent leader operating from inside the Desert of Krog sent some 200 ill-equipped fighters, some wearing leather bags on their feet, into Rustheap where most were killed in a major battle this week, a top orcish general said Saturday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog and the rocky plains agreed to hold peace talks in Branchland, which will include an attempt to resolve their main dispute over Copperangel, foreign ministers from both lands said Saturday.
SHORTSEA, Arkwoods (WZP) - Glimmercloud's foreign minister defended the decision to veto a spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution on Frogsnake that would have called on the regime to free all political prisoners.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An overzealous effort to keep the domed fabric roof of a downtown Toadlife sports stadium inflated ended up helping it fail, according to a preliminary enchantmentering report released on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, troll wizards said on Friday.
TALONHOLD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Irondark Swordashs and orc Chasmclyff Shalechasm were disqualified after the Rootpond Greywood second round on Friday for signing incorrect scorecards.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will implement a "Holdbranch system to try to speed up and make safer the flow of goods across the Orcish Empire border in what is the realm's richest trading relationship.
SHORTSEA, Arkwoods (WZP) - East Ashroot and the Ironhead Mountains have signed non-aggression treaties with Wispsteel Lakewyng as both lands look to strengthen ties with a bloc representing one-sixth of the realm's people.
TALONJADE (WZP) - East Redslimes' militia chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled land said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A top Hymnian cleric's mockery of the convict ancestry of many white halflings met with a mixture of amusement and anger from the government.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's foreign minister said Friday the government will support any moves by King Grimtooth to isolate the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel as part of a new strategy to win the war in the Kurmak Caves.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Protesters demanded on Thursday that Bailiwick's only Wyngglow Boneskull detainee be brought home immediately as human rights groups called for the camp on the Heartwood to be shut down on the fifth anniversary of its opening.
GRASSGEM - A military tribunal on Saturday convicted 10 former members of the Coalheart SS in the Year of the Catfish slaughter of more than 700 people near Peakstem — the worst peasant massacre in the Greysky Forest during Realm Rootsand II, news reports said.
SHORTSEA, Arkwoods (WZP) - Cholera infection rates are rising among adventurers and young people in Wispsteel Lakewyng and plague poses a long-term threat to development and national security, regional leaders have been told.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud will have 30 million more adventurers of marriageable age than adventurers in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the land's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - But illegal - Practice of adventurers aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.
SPIRIT WORLD - Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves blocked the Deathpeak Crystalglow from demanding an end to political repression and human rights violations in military-ruled Frogsnake, rejecting a resolution proposed by the Orcish Empire.
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