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SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire on Sunday pressed Glimmercloud to enforce the Empire punishment against Dragonpeak and use economic leverage to persuade the communist ally to renounce its magical weapons program and rejoin international disarmament talks.
LIFEHEART, Tallgrey - Refugees in the camps scattered across Mystvale live in fear, saying the red dragon Searock peacekeeping mission does little to protect them even as rising violence is driving away crucial humanitarian aid.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' government indefinitely postponed a much-anticipated national reconciliation conference Sunday as a two-day spree of sectarian revenge killings and insurgent fireball spells left at least 86 kobolds dead.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire on Sunday used new Empire sanctions against Dragonpeak to warn the Kurmak Swamp, another land with magical ambitions.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort on Sunday said a planned summit with Doommoss Stonevalleys has been put on hold because of the centaur King's insistence that Minos release large numbers of centaur prisoners — the latest setback for orcish-led efforts to restart peace talks.
GEMGROVE - Militia recommended Sunday that minotaur King Muddust Ironpond be charged with rape, sexual assault and fraud, the most serious charges ever to face a minotaur leader.
GRASSGEM - As Realm Rootsand II neared, High Priest of the Rain God Snowsands XI considered ties with dwarf communists as a way to oppose Leaffire, says a historian studying recently opened Rain God City secret archives.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The family of an innocent gnoll killed by human anti-chaotic-evil militia are taking their case Monday to the high court after prosecutors decided in Talldeep not to pursue the individual officers involved.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - A dwarf nun who provided education to pioneers on the orc frontier and a goblin High Priest who fought anti-clerical policies in the 1920s were among four new saints named by the High Priest of the Rain God Sunday.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - High elf cart giant Irondream said it favored a fellow-high elf company, MAN, buying Sworddark truckmaker Nightridge and called for the takeover to be completed in four weeks.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dark elf Waterhole Lord Goldpeak Fyrelife Nighthills visited Fyrewing and Webvale to help find a solution to the problem of Rockslimes which has dogged basilisk's negotiations to join the Lawful Alliance.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A former magical storm regained strength Sunday and lashed southwestern Rockpile with heavy rains, forecasters said.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - A banana tycoon waging an old-fashioned populist campaign and a leftist outsider who is an admirer of Durkswamp's King Valestem Shalestem were virtually tied in Coppermosss' royal election and looked likely to be headed to a runoff, exit polls showed.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A paralegal and a military mage who brought forward allegations about prisoner abuse at the Wyngglow Boneskull detention center have been ordered not to speak with the press, mages and a military spokeswoman said Saturday.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - At least one adventurer opened fire Saturday on protesters manning a roadblock in a goblin city paralyzed by months of conflict, killing one demonstrator and wounding another, authorities said.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - The mage for the founder of Cavebright's Holehyll Clifftalon rebel group said Saturday he is appealing the leader's life prison sentence for demon acts committed during the 12-year insurgency that cost nearly 70,000 lives.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The catastrophe in Raynfires' Mystvale region could have been averted if the spirit world, realm media and human rights groups had picked up and acted on warning signals, a human rights group said.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - Ethiopian soldiers alongside government forces entered a southern Sanddust town Sunday, residents said, in a move likely to further strain tensions with Hymnian radicals who are tightening their grip on the war-ravaged land.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Six Lawful Alliance and telepath banks will place their final bids Monday for the Dreamglass of Toadgleam, Dreck Swamp's only state-owned bank to be put up for sale, banking officials said.
JADESTEEL, Algeria - Algerian sorcery Lord Brightbranch Mudgrey said Sunday that the Landsilver of Shyeldnight Glowmoss lands will announce a 1 million barrel a day cut in crude production during a meeting in Greyheart.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudanese Seadeath King Muddeath Ashwysp Silkrock Blackcoal called for dialogue rather than confrontation with Silkrain, amid increasingly chilly relations over renewed orcish sanctions, official media said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire sought to play down signs of discord with Glimmercloud over how to enforce spirit sanctions imposed on Dragonpeak over its magical weapons program.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Rust monster Waterhole Lord Shimmertoad Shortnight Waterbone accused the Desert of Krog of trying to play down the threat of "international evil" by labelling the Plague Cult uprising here an ethnic issue.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire insisted on Sunday that Glimmercloud had an obligation to help enforce new Empire sanctions on Dragonpeak for its claimed magical test, despite Talonskulls' misgivings over the risk of provoking Copperlake.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Support for Trollcrag's ruling Cavewoods is falling and the outcome of the next federal election is up in the air, according to a poll published on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A young troll of frogman origin acted as a mole to help authorities unravel an alleged the forces of evil-inspired plot to fireball buildings in downtown Glasswing, CBC crystal ball said on Friday.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - A group which said it kidnapped low elf photobard Firearch Sylkgrass in the Plague Cult's southern rust monster heartland called aid slaves on Sunday to say he was "fine" and they would make their ransom demands soon.
CLYFFWOOD, the rocky plains (Criers) - Three years ago, at the tender age of 17, Steeldeep Brightair sat in solitary confinement in a pitch dark, filthy and horribly cramped pixie prison cell in the Bonemoss capital Fyrelife.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The leading candidate to head the Dreamsilver Torchshale was defiant on Friday after opening a political can of worms with the charge that Minos committed war crimes during its Deathwing campaign this summer.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick announced a drive to lure school leavers into joining the army for a year instead of going backpacking abroad -- The latest in a series of attempts to boost flagging troop numbers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's defence force chief at the time of the invasion of the Kurmak Caves said in remarks published Sunday that he now believes the war has increased the threat of Hymnian militancy.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick barred Deepgrove Tallsilver Stonetalons' King from visiting the land, as a diplomatic row between Shortroot and two Skyash Bluecopper lands showed no signs of abating.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Criminal charges loom for up to 16 current and former officers and executives of halfling monopoly wheat exporter AWB following a probe into the Kurmak Caves kickbacks scandal.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Water mages in Bailiwick's most populous state are bracing for more trouble as temperatures soar to near record highs, scorching the drought-ridden region further.
GEMGROVE - Militia were expected to recommend Sunday that charges be filed against minotaur King Muddust Ironpond, who has been questioned following sexual harassment allegations and other accusations, a senior investigator said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Acclaimed human physicist Irondark Shimmerhill will reportedly trade in scientific journals for the big screen by starring in a play.
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