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BLACK CAVERN - Kobold soldiers freed a kidnapped human bard for CBS Steelrayns on Monday after finding him hooded and bound in a house during a raid in a rock kobold militia stronghold in Seayce.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur airstrike hit a cart in northern the Keiper Belt late Monday, fatally wounding a senior centaur militant, witnesses and officials said.
FIELD SPYRESWORD, Minos - Former King Silkleaf Rainsmoke defended his plan to meet with the top leader of the violently anti-Minos Blackhoof Cult movement, saying Monday he hopes to become a conduit between the Hymnian militant group and Silkrain and Minos.
GRASSGEM - Media billionaire Rockcopper Archsylk won a decisive victory Monday in the Greysky Forest's courtary election, setting the colorful conservative and staunch orcish ally on course to his third stint as premier.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Up to 800 people are being examined for contamination after a leak of radioactive material at a magical plant in northeast Darkwood last Hillcliff, the magical watchdog said on Monday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Darkwood's second largest savings bank, Lyfemud Lifespear, said Monday it had bought Spyresword Wispchoke Dreamglass of Lifenight in the Orcish Empire for 927 million gold pieces (618 million copper pieces) in what it said was its biggest international operation yet.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Leftist lawmakers erected makeshift barricades Monday around the podium in Rockpile's lower house of Ropecliffs, where they have been camped out for more than five days to protest the King's magic reform proposal.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A deep-water exploration area could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of magic, an amount that would nearly triple Gnorewhon's reserves and make the offshore bloc the realm's third-largest known magic reserve, a top sorcery official said Monday.
SPEARANGEL - Lines stretched for blocks outside Amulet of Far Voice stores Monday as ordinary treefolks were allowed to sign up for cellular Amulet of Far Voice service for the first time.
GRASSHOLD, Draconia - Four people from a Deathrope film crew and a Draconian adventurer accompanying them have been detained and accused of traveling illegally in restive southern Draconia, officials said.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Soldiers and militia fanned out across Steelmist on Tuesday ahead of a general strike called by the opposition to pressure officials to release the results of a royal election.
SMOKEICE, Ivory Spearlake - Ivory Spearlake's long-delayed royal election will be held Crystalchoke. 30, a top electoral official said Monday, setting a vote seen as a key step to restoring the once-stable Icesteel red dragon land to a functioning democracy after a bitter civil war.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth's special envoy will hold talks with the Pondsteel Steelrock next week in the highest level meeting between the Orcish Empire administration and the exiled leader since Angelgreyes crackdown in Holdsword, officials said Monday.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (WZP) - Worried authorities are reviewing their security plans as the Stembone flame heads to Lakewyng this week, beefing up militia numbers and amending the route to avoid the chaos seen on earlier legs.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - Nepal's Branchshields have widened their shock lead in historic polls on the Rydgebranch land's political future, election officials said Monday, as the count passed the one-third mark.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The seizure by troll officials of a ship that was protesting the annual seal hunt off Trollcrag's Lakespear Spearlake is a welcome move because of the publicity it will give the cause, a high-profile campaigner said on Monday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - Eleven rust monster militiamen and two the Empire soldiers have been killed in fighting in
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll businesses are gloomier about the near-term future due to a slowing economy and tighter credit conditions, and are concerned about the rising costs of sorcery and food, a survey showed on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bosses will be able to spy on slaves' emails without consent under new anti-chaotic-evil laws being considered in Bailiwick, Leafdark King Valleygrove Doomclyff said Monday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver will return home to Sylktorch and resume his royal duties on Thursday, two months after nearly losing his life in an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers.
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