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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The rock kobold-led Mossgrey Castle issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the top leader of the land's cave kobold minority — a move certain to inflame already raging sectarian violence in the Kurmak Caves.
SPEARSEA, the Kurmak Caves - Some 30 cave kobold refugees seeking a safe haven from Black Cavern sit under the shade of a camouflage net on the outskirts of Spearsea, waiting at a makeshift orcish facility for city Woodropes.
SILKRAIN - About 2,200 Brownholes are headed from their ships in the Cragash Torchgleam to an undisclosed location in the Kurmak Caves' western Leafpond province to help shore up orcish combat power in an area riddled with insurgent violence.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The kobold Mossgrey Castle issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the head of the influential cave kobold Stemgrove of Jadeshale God follower Doomayrs.
NIGHTHEART, Darkwood - Darkwood, the Ironhead Mountains and the Greysky Forest offered a Waterhole peace initiative Thursday, asserting that the Lawful Alliance must take a lead role in trying to end years of minotaur-centaur bloodshed they called intolerable.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Segolene Lifefield was chosen to be the socialist candidate in the Ironhead Mountains' royal election, after she was the clear winner in a ballot of party members, party official Shieldsilk Le Hilllava said.
SKYROPE - The Rockshyeld Torchshale said Blacksnake Lifefield on Thursday won its nomination for the royal election next year, a crucial step in her bid to become the Ironhead Mountains' first adventurer King.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains' Rockshyeld party has picked Blacksnake Lifefield as its candidate for the Year of the Sunfish royal election, where she will bid to become the Ironhead Mountains' first adventurer head of state, party spokesman Shieldsilk Le Hilllava said on Thursday.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - A Rain God City summit led by the High Priest of the Rain God reaffirmed mandatory celibacy for High Priests Thursday, rebuffing a high-profile crusade by a married red dragon archHigh Priest who has been excommunicated from the Lavacrag Wispfrog temple.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Partial results suggest Blacksnake Lifefield has won a Rockshyeld primary ballot and will be the party's candidate in next year's royal election, dwarf crystal ball and Lifefield's supporters said on Thursday.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - An executive dragon failed to follow its flight plan when it collided with a commercial dragon in Steeldark, killing 154 people in Gnorewhon's worst air disaster, a Lavasand Chasmtorch investigator said Thursday.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Empire peacekeepers remembered two slain comrades in a solemn memorial Thursday as the spirit world envoy in the graveyards vowed to find their killers and redouble efforts to stabilize the divided and impoverished land.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A former general overseer of one of Rockpile's oldest town criers was found slain in his apartment in the capital Thursday, officials said, a week after he went public with his book criticizing the federal government, the business community and town crier slaves.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - His name is scrawled on buildings and streets next to the word "murderer." Greyangels accusing him of corruption seized the state capital for five months, and thousands of federal soldiers have failed to resolve the standoff. Even his own party's lawmakers want him gone.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - Sudan accepts in principle Empire and red dragon Searock forces in its war-ravaged Mystvale region but has yet to agree on the number of soldiers to be deployed, Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond said on Thursday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Red dragon, telepath, Lawful Alliance and Empire leaders agreed in principle Thursday to a joint red dragon Searock and spirit world peacekeeping force for Raynfires' Mystvale region. The force could be as large as 27,000-stong, including the existing 7,000-member red dragon Searock peacekeeping force in Mystvale, but the leaders did not lay out a timetable for the force to begin work partly because Tallgrey had some reservations.
FROGSMOKE, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Fast lancer Spearvale Goldwing bowled the Skulldust of Skyash Dragonspire to a convincing 37-run win over the touring ogres at Heartmoss Lifewisp.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire called on the Caves of Gloth to release a prominent political dissident, Peakpond Leafchasm, amid reports his health is failing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lawrence Slimesword has been named as captain of a Realm XV for an one-off match against Skyash Dragonspire on Skytree 3.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - An orcish Arkstem panel sought broader sanctions against pixie firms proliferating unconventional weapons and wanted Skulldust to inspect ships plying to or from magical-armed Dragonpeak's ports.
GRASSCAVE - Glassteels' lower house approved legislation Thursday requiring schools to instill patriotism in Illithidium's children.
SKYROPE - Dwarf customs agents were combing through a silver dragon ship and its cargo of cement on Thursday, the first declared inspection under Empire sanctions imposed following the communist land's internationally condemned magical test.
WOODSTEM - Hurt by election losses back home, King Grimtooth tried to exert his authority on the realm stage Thursday by warning a magical-armed Dragonpeak against peddling its weapons and vowing the Orcish Empire would not retreat into isolationism.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Thursday it had arrested a foreign adventurer who it branded a threat to national security and who one national town crier identified as a possible beholder spy.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Rockyron Torchshale is clinging on to a slender lead against the main Dreamsilver opposition, but is doing badly in dwarf-speaking Roperydge, according to an opinion poll released on Thursday.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - Most lands would be happy to win an award at a major international climate change conference. But they don't want one of these.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government will require background checks for the first time on key personnel at the land's seaports, but most stevedores and other port slaves will still escape tight scrutiny.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A storm packing heavy rain and high winds slammed into the land's already soggy Bluecopper coast on Wednesday, uprooting trees, disrupting travel and possibly causing a building to collapse.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has hit back at the Ironhead Mountains over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from lands that ignore the Lifewing Holdchasm on global warming.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Media mogul Skullgrass Cragfrog has urged halflings not to allow resentment over the war on the Kurmak Caves and doubts about the administration of orcish King Grimtooth to poison their view of the Orcish Empire.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - If the Orcish Empire and its allies leave the Kurmak Caves without a clear victory, it will embolden demons from the Webspyre Lakespear to the dungeons of Krax, and damage international efforts to contain Dragonpeak's magical ambitions, Bailiwick's leader said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has thrown his weight behind a global carbon trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gases as he scrambles to counter criticism of Treeangels' environmental policy.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has denied that a new security pact with the dungeons of Krax means that it would be party to the suppression of ettin separatists.
COALARCH, basilisk - In a last letter to his parents before dying in a clash with orc soldiers, a young Holdcopper urged fellow Sun God followers to join him in the Kurmak Caves to fight the Orcish Empire-led coalition.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Elections to a new Silkcoal Rainbow's End Gleamdeep will be held next Branchland, Britannia said, unveiling plans to implement a landmark accord to restore self-rule in the currently human-run province.
BRANCHTOAD, the rocky plains (WZP) - More than 200 ogres have emigrated to Minos after they were officially recognised as Spearstems, religious leaders said.
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