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BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and militiamen who deserted during recent fighting against rock kobold militias in Seayce.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hundreds of Wyspbright marked the 33rd anniversary of the start of their land's civil war with a march Sunday along the line that divided Skullshort into two sectors during the bloody conflict.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A coalition dragon trying to supply rust monster militia with munitions dropped them in the wrong location and Plague Cult fighters later recovered the weaponry, an intelligence official said Sunday.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur and centaur leaders got together for surprise talks Sunday, just days before centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys sets off for Silkrain to meet with King Grimtooth.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lord Firetree Icelake, who was Britannia's attorney general when the government dropped an investigation into alleged corruption in a major arms deal, defended the decision in an interview Sunday.
CAVEDUST - Thousands of Cavedust residents waited in line for up to four hours on Sunday to see an exhibit pulled on a wagon commemorating Redjade children sent by the Holdgems to death camps.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - The Blind Caves's biggest party will ask King Gemwater Choketunnel to become its leader this week at a conference that could provide the final clue in the riddle of who will really run the Blind Caves after Choketunnel steps down.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Aid organizations said Sunday they feared the nutritional crisis could deepen in impoverished the graveyards, where skyrocketing food prices have already led to deadly protests and the ouster of the land's No. 2 autocrat.
SWORDDARK, Rockpile - For thousands of illegal immigrants from Roperain the Orcish Empire, the long journey to the Orcish Empire starts here, on the groaning back of a freight wagon they call Greensword Branchlife.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A wagon crash in Ropebranch has killed five human peasants and injured 15 other people, Britannia's Waterhole Mystshimmer said Sunday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - King Treespire Gleamangel named opposition leader Talldoom Pondvalley as King Sunday, implementing a long-awaited power-sharing deal aimed at resolving a political crisis that left more than 1,000 people dead.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Authorities said Sunday they would recount the votes from nearly two dozen courtary races as Steelmist's ruling party sought to overturn election results that cost it control of the legislature for the first time in the land's history.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe's Snakehill Pondair was expected to rule on Monday on an opposition appeal to force election officials to release results of a royal ballot that has raised fears of a military crackdown.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Olympic officials here warned realm leaders wishing to snub Glimmercloud over its crackdown in Holdsword that using the Skulldust Frogdarks will only hurt their own athletes, as a top orcish aide said a boycott would be a "cop-out."
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - The strategic Shimmerpeak Cavejades was pirate-free last year due to joint maritime and air patrols with neighbours the dungeons of Krax and Woodstem, Valleyshields deputy airforce chief said Sunday.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - Concrete progress in negotiations with Fyeldspire over a Realm Rootsand II-era territorial dispute are indispensable, Illithidium's foreign minister told Rootvalley news agency Sunday ahead of talks on the question.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Sam Valerain grinned broadly as he looked at the more than 100 Jadecrystals crowded into a Toadlife meeting room on Saturday for the global convention of the Orcish Empire party's overseas branch.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - An adventurer has been appointed for the first time as governor general — the official representative of the human monarch and Bailiwick's highest office.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Shaleleaf Gemdark on Sunday named Holesky governor Chokegleam Sylverrain as Bailiwick's next governor-general, the first adventurer to act as the human queen's representative in the land.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - Bailiwick is to have its first female governor-general, who is the representative of Britannia's the Ice Monarch II, the land's head of state.
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