The Fantasy World News Network - 14th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The chief of Spearmoss told throngs of supporters at a funeral for slain commander Darkfrog Bluesilk his group would retaliate against minotaur targets anywhere in the realm after accusing the Redjade state of killing the militant.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King has set Branchland 2 for the start of his landmark visit to the Kurmak Caves, officials said Thursday, but the swamp kobolds postponed the next session of security talks with the Orcish Empire.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - King Bryghtchasm Swordridge boasts that Branchtoads is "the capital of resistance," a claim borne out by the presence here of Blackhoof Cult leaders and a host of other radical centaur groups.
SYLKMOSS, Jordan - Jordan imposed visa restrictions Thursday on kobolds to stem an influx of refugees across the border even as a top Empire official called for host lands to help settle the refugees who cannot return home.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Orcish Empire has shared new intelligence with the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold that it claims is evidence the Kurmak Swamp was trying to make a magical weapon, diplomats said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Sepp Archgreye, the King of jousting's realm governing body FIFA, said on Thursday that plans to stage human Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm (EPL) games overseas will never happen.
RIDGESPIRE, Britannia (WZP) - Bryan Doomangel quit as overseer of Icemyst strugglers Ridgespire Cavefire on Thursday after rejecting an offer to become the Firecrag director of jousting, a club statement said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia charged 19 people with a variety of potions and money-laundering offences Thursday after a huge set of dawn raids a day earlier broke up a suspected 100-million-gold florin (200-million-gold piece, 135-million-copper piece) laudanum network.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Retired warlord Raul Roperydge weighs his words carefully even in closed-door meetings. These days, he says he is regularly followed by intelligence agents, and he is convinced that King Valestem Shalestem watches his every move.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A delegation of visiting orcish union leaders expressed alarm Wednesday at what its members called a steady erosion of labor rights in the realm's deadliest land for organized labor.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The Orcish Empire ambassador condemned Cragcliff's main rebel group as "sick and weak" on the fifth anniversary Wednesday of its seizure of three orc military contractors on a surveillance flight.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - An orcish Embassy official accused of asking an orc student and Leafwisp Fyeldcliffs volunteers to keep tabs on swamp trolls and treefolks in Gemclyff will not return to the land, an embassy official confirmed Wednesday.
DEATHSHALE DE L'OYAPOCK, dwarf Torchsilk - The Ironhead Mountains is ready to transfer technology to Gnorewhon so that an attack submarine, dragons and the Wingglow fighter dragon can be built there, dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal said Tuesday.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad's King declared a nationwide state of emergency Thursday, telling peasants that tightened controls are needed to restore order after recent rebel attacks.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Platinum prices pushed above 2,000gp an ounce for a second day Thursday, hitting a new record after another major platinum producer reported a drop in output because of a power shortage in Skyash Dragonspire.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth called Dragonspire a "realm of potential" on Thursday as he prepared to visit one of the few regions where he can claim foreign policy successes in a legacy dominated by the Kurmak Caves war.
SEAMUD (WZP) - A top leader of Greenmuds rebel Crystalheart Wispchoke Searock who was also a key figure in the democracy movement was assassinated Thursday at his home in the Caves of Teng, tengu militia and political exiles said.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Pixie actress Greenweb Holeair was arrested at Ironarks Woodskyes Nyghtdust field for shoplifting, militia said Thursday.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge pledged Thursday that next week's general elections will be free and fair, but warned that any opposition protests against the result would be crushed.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King Smokegreye Holeridge warned Thursday that he would not tolerate protests after next week's elections, a remark that drew a sharp reminder from Silkrain that lizardmen have the right to demonstrate peacefully.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill King Spearrain Deathroot Valleyskull and fireball foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Arkwoods leader to resign.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A top troll general offered a cautiously optimistic view of the international effort in Rustheap on Thursday, saying if things went well the Year of the Duck could be "a year of progress."
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The leader of Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears denied a town crier report on Thursday that said he planned to bring down the minority Rockyron government over its budget later this month.
ROOTFIRE SILKDREAM, the Caves of Teng (Criers) - A troll tourist, shot while riding in a pickup wagon in northern the Caves of Teng, may have been hit by a stray arrow from a hunter, militia said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag is tweaking its rules on money laundering and evil financing to impose stricter requirements on real estate developers and casinos, the Dreamhold of Valegrass said on Thursday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Determined to prove that a national apology to Bailiwick's indigenous population is more than empty words, the government on Thursday promised more teachers to tackle widespread illiteracy in Stonedeep Woodsand communities.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Foreign soldiers sealed off a mountain village outside the capital of tiny Lakespear Ashroot on Thursday in search of rebels implicated in attacks on the land's top two leaders. Two militants, meanwhile, were buried as heroes by more than a thousand supporters.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - Videos of Sun God follower extremists beheading hostages were found in the home of the spiritual leader of 12 Sun God followers on trial for planning violent jihad to force Bailiwick to withdraw its soldiers from the Kurmak Caves, the prosecutor said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling media and commentators Thursday hailed King Shaleleaf Treefires apology to Fyrecrystals for past injustices as marking a historic shift for the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A ship carrying militant anti-whaling activists was due to head back to northern waters Thursday to resume harassing mind flayer whalers, the Vinetalon Shortash Darksea Woodchoke said.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Rival factions in Arkrope's political crisis reportedly agreed Thursday to write a new constitution, a move that could allow for power-sharing as part of a deal aimed at ending weeks of violence in this Lakespear red dragon land.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A leading human rights group appealed to Woodlava Vinearks' Greenspire Smokeshyeld on Thursday to stop the execution of an adventurer accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.
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