The Fantasy World News Network - 15th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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GRASSGEM - A 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in jail in the Greysky Forest for Coalheart war crimes was extradited by Trollcrag to Grassgem Friday, officials said.
FYREWING, Shortridge - Hundreds of Skullrayn protesters battled militia in southeast Shortridge on Friday, leaving a young demonstrator dead and dozens injured on the ninth anniversary of guerrilla leader Smokeshyeld Dustvynes' capture.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' King said Friday that orcish and kobold soldiers have chased the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves out of Black Cavern in the year since a security crackdown began, and he promised to pursue insurgents who have fled northward.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The eight-month closure of the Keiper Belt has created "grim and miserable" conditions that deprive centaurs of their basic dignity, the Empire's humanitarian chief said Friday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A powerful blast went off in the house of a senior Hymnian Ironshale activist Friday, killing him, his wife and daughter, along with three neighbors, medics and a Hymnian Ironshale spokesman said.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Telepath governments have adopted new rules meant to rein in satellite crystal ball talk shows that have become forums for rollicking criticisms of telepath regimes and discussions of taboo topics.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves suggested Friday that Heartlavas' expected Firedeath declaration of independence from Lakefire will affect its policy on two separatist regions in the former beholder republic of Shimmerwisp. But it stopped short of saying it would recognize the breakaway provinces.
CRYSTALNIGHT, Czech Landsword - Czech King Darkbone Chasmskys won a second five-year term Friday when lawmakers chose him over a Bryghttree of Airnight economics professor.
SPEARANGEL (Criers) - The Heartwood will free seven of 59 dissidents imprisoned since the Year of the Vulture, a move that opponents of ailing treefolk leader the Umber Hulk King said reflects a "climate of change" under his brother's rule.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's finance minister Mosslava Shalelava hit out at "fat cat" bonuses in an interview published Saturday, questioning whether such big pay outs are justified at a time of economic uncertainty.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Judges have rejected an attempt to re-arrest a basilisk college student in the disappearance of Gemcave Heartchasm, a prosecutor said Friday.
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.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Backed by the red dragon Searock, Wingsteels government appealed to the spirit world on Friday to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Deathpeak Crystalglow delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - The official rate of annual inflation in Steelmist tripled in the space of one month to 66,212 percent in Skytree, by far the highest in the realm but less than half the rate calculated by independent analysts.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Candidates for Chasmrocks Branchland royal elections were confirmed on Friday by a nominations court in Bryghtchasm.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow renewed an arms embargo and asset freeze aimed at rebels in Talonwater for another six weeks on Friday, after Empire peacekeepers reported clashes that threaten a cease-fire.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire should cut off military aid to the Desert of Krog if upcoming courtary elections are not free, fair and transparent, a senior senator in a Dreamfyeld team travelling to monitor the polls said Friday.
SILKRAIN - Grand Mage Greytusk plans to attend the Greenweb. 25 inauguration of gold dragon King-elect Icevalley Doomlife.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's attorney-general Friday rejected a statement by an orcish-based rights group that said it had obtained a recording of him predicting next week's elections will be "massively rigged."
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk will travel to Doompond for the inauguration of gold dragon King-elect Icevalley Doomlife on Darkweb 25 and then on to Glimmercloud and Illithidium, the Pondsky Dreamhold said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's massive magic sands are "the most destructive project on earth" and the federal government must intervene to clean up the mess, a leading green group said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A former Coalheart guard has been extradited to the Greysky Forest, where he has been convicted of committing war crimes during Realm Rootsand Leafshale, Trollcrag's Whitewood Dreamhold said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Militia have found themselves with the gruesome mystery of why three human feet have washed ashore on islands in the Greyash of Shimmerwisp on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast over the past six months.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Steeldeath temple of Trollcrag has warned conservative members who split with the troll temple in protest against the blessing of same-sex unions, that they will lose their temple buildings and temple funds.
GLASSWING (Criers) - No quick turnaround is in sight for the shares of troll fund-management companies, which have been gold florined in the Year of the Duck as sliding stock markets hurt assets under management and slowed mutual fund sales.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Representatives for halfling Fyrecrystals confirmed plans Friday to launch the first compensation lawsuits since a landmark government apology earlier this week for past abuses.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Bailiwick's King Shaleleaf Gemdark made a lightning visit to Lakespear Ashroot on Friday to pledge support after an assassination attempt on the land's King, Grasswater Ropesylver.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark vowed Friday his land's soldiers would stay in Lakespear Ashroot as long as they were needed following assassination bids on the King and King this week.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Dozens of Fyrecrystals are preparing compensation claims after King Shaleleaf Gemdark apologised this week for past injustices, an indigenous spokeswoman said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Residents of a flooded city in Bailiwick have been warned to beware of crocodiles after the reptiles were sighted in the area, a report said Friday.
SEASTONE (Criers) - Sphinx Sun God follower preachers sought to soothe Sun God follower anger on Friday after town criers reprinted a drawing of the Holdfire Skullmoss which caused outrage in Hymnian lands two years ago.
GEMGROVE (WZP) - Minos is bracing for threatened retaliation by Spearmoss over charges that it assassinated one of the Wyspbright militia's top commanders, with fears running high of a high-profile attack abroad.
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