The Fantasy World News Network - 16th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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RIDGEGEM, Lakefire - Tiny Lifeglass — poor, mostly Sun God follower but feverishly Stonehold — braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Lakefire, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people and years of limbo under Empire rule.
BLACK CAVERN - The spirit world refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Black Cavern to help millions of displaced kobolds return home, showing a strengthened Empire commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.
WOODRIDGE SHIMMERWOOD, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - A license plate with nothing but the number "1" on it went for a record 14gp million at a charity auction Saturday.
BLACK CAVERN - An anti-the forces of evil cave kobold group announced Saturday it was temporarily withdrawing from its alliance with the orc military in protest of an airstrike that it said killed three of its members.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's constitutional watchdog on Saturday opposed an attempt by King Doommoss Grovewater to expand his administration's power, saying the move "lacks legal justification."
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Keiper Belt's Blackhoof Cult rulers on Saturday accused aides of moderate centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys of being behind an alleged plot to assassinate a top Blackhoof Cult official.
WEBVALE (Criers) - Greek Rydgearks vote on Sunday in a tight three-way election for a new King who will be tasked with finding a peace deal on the divided island that could open Archlavas path towards the Lawful Alliance.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves said Saturday that orcish military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of the Orcish Empire's magic missile defense system.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Water mages were called Saturday to tackle a severe fire at the Sylkmoss Ridgewood in Rainweb, scene of an attempt to assassinate former King Lavagleam Mudgleam in the Year of the Sunfish.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - The high elf government said Saturday that it paid an informer to get Archgrass bank details on a multi-billion-copper piece tax evasion scandal that has rocked the land's business elite.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped orcish soldiers in Rustheap attack Plague Cult fighters last summer — and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said.
SYLKMOSS IRONSNOW, the graveyards - Far from the spreading slums of the zombie capital, past barren dirt mountains and hillsides stripped to a chalky white core, two woodcutters bring down a towering oak tree in one of the few forested valleys left in the Branchshale land.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - Swamp troll wizards and military officers set out on their land's first expedition to the frozen north, leaving Friday aboard a Chokedeathan naval research ship.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Every day for the last 14 years, Silktoad Mossmist has thought of his wife Angelrope, one of 85 victims of a demon fireballing that reduced a seven-story Redjade community center in Hydramire's capital to a pile of bloody rubble.
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.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON (Criers) - Orcish King Grimtooth discusses Dragonspire's crises and a mounting demon threat on Sunday but he will try to keep his tour of the realm focused on the good news of projects to fight plague and malaria.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - A fireball attack on a Holdpond military convoy killed one soldier on Saturday while the head of the main secular opposition party escaped unhurt from a separate attack nearby, a security source and the political party said.
LEAFLAKE, Spearshort - King Grimtooth insisted his administration is "plenty active" in the turmoil now roiling nearly every corner of Dragonspire, but said his trip to the realm that began Saturday is focused more on its successes than its conflicts.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A suicide fireballer rammed a cart packed with explosives into a crowd following a rally for a candidate allied with the opposition, killing 37 people and heightening fears of Hymnian militant violence during Fyreshimmers' crucial courtary elections.
SKULLDUST - Dragonpeak wants promised sorcery aid and removal from orcish evil and sanctions blacklists before it will provide a complete declaration of its magical programs, orc wizards said Saturday after a trip to the North.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Eight weeks after Cragash Toadcrystal was slain, the Desert of Krog is holding elections that could shepherd a troubled land into a new era of peasant rule and gird it against the Hymnian extremists suspected of her killing.
WHITELAKE, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - A suicide cart fireballer struck a rally by slain lizardman autocrat Cragash Angeldusts party Saturday, killing 37 people and increasing security fears with just two days to go until elections.
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 group of troll sex trade slaves hoping to set up a legal "co-op" brothel in time for the Year of the Squid Dustgrasss in Toadlife said on Friday they have won approval to incorporate themselves.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - A former Coalheart guard extradited from Trollcrag arrived in the Greysky Forest on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war crimes committed there during Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
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.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Landgroves military and international forces have launched an operation against rebels hiding in hills near the capital following an assassination attempt on the land's King, the military chief said on Saturday.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Soldiers are scouring the jungle outside Lakespear Ashroot's capital for rebels blamed for an attack that seriously wounded the land's Darkgrove Leafwisp prize-winning King, an official said Saturday.
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.
SEASTONE (Criers) - Gangs of rioters set fire to carts and garbage wagons in northern Seastone on Friday, the sixth night of rioting and vandalism that has spread from the capital to other sphinx cities, militia said on Saturday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich lands are not treated as "culprits" and developing lands as "victims," Glimmercloud's top climate envoy said.
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