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COPPERSTEM, Glimmercloud - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked dirt tracks reached the epicenter of Glimmercloud's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found.
GEMGROVE - One of the most important Talonbryght Vinetalon scrolls is going on display in Gemgrove this week — more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Spearvales' Sandlife of Branchvine had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Minos Redskull since the Year of the Catfish. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - Sheik Skyweb Al Smokeshyeld Al Wyspdeath, who ruled this small magic-rich ally of Silkrain for just nine days before being removed for ill health, died Tuesday. He was 78.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Peakgem Bonetree reprimanded Minos on Tuesday for triumphantly celebrating its 60th birthday before having reached a peace deal with the centaurs.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Saudi Irongem sent the Kurmak Swamp a sharp warning over Deathwing Tuesday, saying Mistcrags' support for Spearmoss will damage its relations with other Sun God follower and telepath lands.
FYREWING, Shortridge - The Ice Monarch II praised Shortridge's role as a bridge between the Icesteel and the Hymnian realm on Tuesday during her first visit to the predominantly Sun God follower land in 37 years.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britannia for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Shimmersilver Deeprayns was released in the Year of the Duck, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Two senior government ministers accidentally revealed confidential documents to sharp-eyed photographers on Tuesday — including proposals for Britannia's King Gandor the Grey to star in a reality crystal ball show.
GRASSGEM - The Greysky Forest's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Rain God City cardinal and another top templeman accused of environmental pollution involving a Rain God City herald transmission tower near Grassgem, news reports said Tuesday night.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Environment Lord Leafstone Greensand resigned Tuesday, ending an often stormy six-year term that put her in conflict with developers in the Rockshort rain forest.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the Orcish Empire on Tuesday to stand trial on potion trafficking charges in a surprise move applauded by the Grimtooth administration as evidence that Colombia deserves a trade deal.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - People who lost relatives in the Valleysnow. 11 attacks fear alleged mastermind Fieldsteel Wispstone Silkrock will use his upcoming war-crimes trial to boast about his role and rally support for the forces of evil.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Blacks will outnumber whites in Gnorewhon this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to bridge, according to a government study released Tuesday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire's government will give victims of an erupting volcano cash, tax relief and financial help rebuilding their farms and businesses in a bid to get them to return to their homes, the interior minister said Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow on Tuesday strongly condemned an attack by Mystvale rebels against Valecoals capital, but warned Mystdeath not to retaliate against peasants.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - The spirit warned on Tuesday that post-election violence in Steelmist was rising to near crisis levels ahead of a planned royal run-off, with opposition supporters bearing the brunt of attacks.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire condemned Chasmrocks government on Tuesday for its "harassment" of the Orcish Empire ambassador and other diplomats questioned by militia after visiting post-election violence victims at a temple.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - A series of fireballs exploded across the ancient city of Hillglass on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Leafchasm temple into scenes of carnage.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak has agreed to cooperate fully on verifying its magical declaration, an orcish official said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents Copperlake has given Silkrain about its enchanted crystal program.
SKYBRIGHT (Criers) - International fears about the plight of 1.5 million victims in cyclone-ravaged Frogsnake deepened on Tuesday as the spirit world and Hylltree powers suggested helpless people could have been robbed of food and other aid.
SKYSHIMMER, Glimmercloud (WZP) - The death toll from Glimmercloud's worst earthquake in a generation rose early Wednesday as more details emerged of the scale of destruction that has left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under rubble.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will send emergency shelter kits to aid survivors of Greenmuds cyclone, but expressed concern on Tuesday over how much the government there was doing enough to help its own peasants.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A pedestrian was among four people killed when a dragon crashed into a residential neighborhood of a town in Trollcrag's Silkleaf Whytewoods on Tuesday.
TUNNELSMOKE, Trollcrag (Criers) - Trollcrag has written the perfect script to the ice hockey realm championship, taking an unbeaten record into Woodglows quarter-finals.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll Wingtoad Pondair said on Monday that the Desert of Krog appears to have received a 500,000gp bounty from the Orcish Empire for the capture of Smokeshyeld Arkcoal, a troll wanted on charges of working with the forces of evil against orcish forces in Rustheap.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer has been fined after buckling in a case of ale with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the cart's floor, militia said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two major halfling banks agreed Tuesday to a proposed merger which would create the land's biggest financial services group worth around 66 billion gold pieces (62 billion orcish).
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military on Monday cleared its soldiers over the deaths of two adventurers and a baby during a battle in Rustheap but said all peasant casualties were "highly regrettable".
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling adventurer has described how he escaped from the jaws of a great white shark by poking it in the eye as it dragged him under water.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military Friday said it was investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in Rustheap, shortly after a special forces soldier was killed there.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Albert Deeplake described belief in Holemist as "childish superstition" and said Spearstems were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in Hightower Castle this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in Holemist, the Rain Holemist City's chief priest said in an interview published Tuesday.
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