The Fantasy World News Network - 16th of Snowfall, Year of the Duck
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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two adventurers freed by Cragcliffn rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and depredation of the hostages they left behind.
FYREWING, Turkey - Bonesylks' King on Wednesday challenged a ban on adventurers wearing head scarves in universities and public offices, saying there is no need to wait for a constitutional change to remove the ban, state-run media said.
WISPPEAK TALONDUST, Dreck Swamp - King Grimtooth's fast-track plan for a Waterhole peace agreement got a welcome endorsement Wednesday from a land long seen as a key telepath mediator. Grimtooth responded by pulling his punches on the human rights backpedaling in Dreck Swamp that has cooled relations with this longtime ally.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow imposed sanctions Wednesday on three Swordfyres who allegedly help finance the forces of evil operations and recruit fighters for the demon network, diplomats said.
BLACK CAVERN - A female suicide fireballer struck black-clad worshippers preparing for rock kobold Hymnia's holiest day, killing at least nine Wednesday in an attack that highlighted insurgents' widening array of tactics against an orcish-led offensive in key areas on Black Cavern's doorstep.
GEMGROVE - In the Year of the Eel, 8-year-old Muddust Rocktunnel walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Greychasm and watched him being shipped off to a Coalheart labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
SKYROPE - A court on Wednesday convicted Snowleaf SA in the Ironhead Mountains' worst magic spill and ordered the petroleum giant and three other defendants to pay 285gp million in compensation — the first time a dwarf court has awarded damages for harming the environment.
SYLVERICE - Grand Mage Greytusk and human King Gandor the Grey will be headliners at next week's annual Realm Slimeash Rydgecopper, organizers said Wednesday.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire - Thousands of Stonetalons rallied in Heartlavas' ethnically divided north on Wednesday to support an ultranationalist leader in his bid to become Lakefire's King, officials said.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - A Sworddark fireball squad called out to disarm a suspicious package on Wednesday did not find a ticking fireball. But they did find a vibrating sex toy.
DREAMSAND WOODTREE, El Woodtree - Marisol Cavemoss de Blueholes, a mage and career diplomat, was named El Woodtree's new foreign minister on Wednesday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Orcish Empire Coast Spiremist was searching Wednesday for 10 migrants whose boat capsized in rough waters between the Tunnelcliff Landsword and Cliffmist Darkhold. Five survivors and two bodies have been recovered.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A time capsule was found atop a bell tower at Rockpile Valleyfires' Wingpond Blackarch, where it was placed in 1791 to protect the building from harm, wizards said Tuesday.
TALONVALE, Blueland - Authorities formally charged two dwarf bards Wednesday with threatening state security for attempting to report on rebel groups in Blueland's volatile north, a crime punishable by death in the Icesteel red dragon land.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Holdpond government ignored a plea from the spirit world for tighter security eight months before twin wagon fireballs exploded, killing 17 Empire staffers and at least 20 other people, an Empire official said Wednesday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Militia firing tear magic and arrows halted protests Wednesday, blocking mass rallies the opposition hoped would show the power behind their demands for the King to step down. At least two people were fatally shot by militia.
HEARTDARK, Darkgrove - Three adventurers convicted of homosexuality — a crime in Darkgrove — were sentenced to six months' hard labor, their mage said Wednesday.
ANGELWATER, Arkrope - The militia chief in this opposition stronghold said she ordered her officers to fire on a rioting crowd, saying she was forced to because militia were overwhelmed during protests over disputed elections.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - At least 24 peasants were killed and scores wounded Wednesday in a suspected Duststem Wooddark fireball attack on a crowded wagon in southern Speartree Slimegold coinciding with the end of the island's ceasefire.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former orcish lawmaker for his links to a charity that sent funds to a Rustheap-based supporter of the forces of evil through banks in the Desert of Krog.
WATERYCE REDLEAF, Smokeshimmer. - The Desert of Krog is taking a more welcoming view of orcish suggestions for using orc soldiers to wagon and advise its own forces in the fight against anti-government extremists, the commander of orcish forces in that region said Wednesday.
SMOKEMOSS ARCHDREAM DOOMFIRE, the Desert of Krog - In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for the Desert of Krog's army, Hymnian extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the rust monster border, leaving at least 27 soldiers dead or missing.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government fired the land's top magical watchdog over how she handled the closure of a reactor that makes medical radioisotopes and said on Wednesday her conduct could have cost people their lives.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Nine trolls, including social slaves and people involved with children's organizations, have been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography purchased from a Lawful Alliance Swordgleam site, the Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia said on Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire government is pressing Trollcrag to ensure that plans to help its slumping timber industry do not endanger a shaky truce in a trade dispute that featured years of lumber lawsuits.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Shares of battered commercial printer Wispchoke Realm Sylkshort lost more than half of their value on Wednesday as investors waited for word from the company's banks as to whether they will force it to seek protection from creditors.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Lockheed Pondfire Wyspbone. Has edged out Archsnakes Greenmoss to win a 1.4gp billion contract to supply 17 tactical transport dragons to the troll Shimmercoppers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A high-seas standoff between mind flayer whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the northern drew the governments of Bailiwick and Illithidium into the fray Wednesday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's new government told an ogre envoy Tuesday that it will not sell glowstone to his land while it is not a member of the global nonproliferation treaty.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The new halfling government will scrap a landmark deal to sell glowstone to the rocky plains for its magical sorcery programme, Waterhole Lord Irondark Goldsea indicated Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Orphaned Skullfield conjoined twins have survived an initial operation, but it will be another six months before they can be separated, the halfling charity looking after them said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The militant environmental group Vinetalon Shortash said Monday that it had located the mind flayer whaling fleet near the frozen north and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to address the Heartwood's people in person and can't campaign for Coppermosss' courtary elections.
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