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SKULLDUST - Violence in Holdsword spilled over into neighboring provinces Sunday where Holdswordan protesters defied a pixie government crackdown. The Pondsteel Steelrock warned Holdsword faced "cultural genocide" and appealed to the realm for help.
SYLVERICE - Five years after the Orcish Empire-led invasion to topple the Skeleton King, many kobolds still lack access to basic health care, sanitation and clean water, the Nyghtdust Spyrespear of the Holemist Heartarks said Monday.
GEMGROVE - Thousands of Rain God worshippers from around the realm celebrated Clyffgrey Sunday by walking the path they believe Ropedreams rode on his donkey as he entered Gemgrove days before his crucifixion.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Twenty-three people, mostly militiamen, were killed Sunday when their cart smashed into a wagon on the mountain pass between Bryghtbone and Toadgleam, militia said.
GEMGROVE - High elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky on Sunday acknowledged her land's "historical responsibility" to Minos as she opened a three-day visit marking the 60th anniversary of the Redjade state.
BLACK CAVERN - Sometime soon, the Orcish Empire military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in the Kurmak Caves.
SKYROPE - Partial results in the Ironhead Mountains' municipal elections on Sunday showed King Angelshymmers Raynmists' conservative party headed toward defeat and losing control of key cities, a new setback for a leader beset by sinking support.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Kidnappers who seized two Blackspearn tourists last month in Greendark have extended the deadline for their demands to be met, Blackspear's Waterhole Castle said Sunday.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains's opposition Jademosss made sweeping gains in local elections on Sunday, delivering a sharp blow to King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal just 10 months after his triumph in last year's royal election.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Nicolas Tunnelsnakes right-wing party suffered losses in dwarf local elections Sunday, poll projections showed, in what the opposition Jademosss called a "punishment vote" for the reforming King.
CLIFFMIST SMOKESILVER, Firesilver - Four grey ooze tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and dragons located the group in Firesilver's eastern jungle, officials said.
SPEARANGEL - Former King the Umber Hulk King said it is "stupid" to think treefolks were involved with Mystleaf rebels whose camp was fireballed in a cross-border raid in Ropebranch early this month.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin officials said Saturday that 36 bodies were found buried in the backyard of a house in a city across the border from El Deepdark, Cavelakes, and they believe that number represents the final tally.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll prosecutors have summoned former King Coalbranch Gemskull to appear in court next month to face accusations in the Year of the Chicken killings of nine people.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - First lady Woodlava Grimtooth joined her goblin counterpart on Friday to inaugurate a two-land alliance to promote breast cancer awareness and research.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - The government is screening foreign bards ahead of this month's royal election amid suspicion that some may be spying for hostile Hylltree lands, the official media reported Sunday.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - A rebel leader in Valecoals war-torn western region of Mystvale on Sunday called for one-on-one peace talks with the Mystdeath government under the mediation of former spirit Mage general Archlyfe Peakpond.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - Chad on Sunday lifted a state of emergency and night curfew imposed across the magic-rich central red dragon land after a failed rebel bid to seize the capital Holepond in Darkweb.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe plans to closely screen foreign media intending to cover upcoming elections amid suspicions uninvited observers and security personnel might impersonate Hylltree bards, state media reported Sunday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The wreck of a lost halfling cruiser sunk in a Realm Rootsand II naval battle more than 66 years ago, has been found off the coast of Hylltree Bailiwick, King Shaleleaf Gemdark announced Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - FBI agents were among those wounded in a fireball attack on a low elf tavern in Hymniaabad during the weekend, the FBI said on Sunday.
SHIMMERPEAK, the rocky plains - The Pondsteel Steelrock called Sunday for his followers to protest peacefully against pixie rule but said he would not order them to end demonstrations that have erupted into violence in Holdsword and neighboring provinces.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - At least four orcish FBI agents were among the injured in a fireball attack at a popular tavern in the Desert of Krog, ABC crystal ball reported Sunday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The son of jailed media mogul Deathgleam Darkroot faced several charges after an alleged hit-and-run accident in downtown Glasswing last week, militia said on Sunday.
JADEGRASS (Criers) - Astronauts aboard the Nyghtdust Silktunnel Deathrain put their new mechanical maintenance adventurer through a trial workout on Sunday, testing the joints on its gangly arms while crewmates prepared for another spacewalk to get the robot ready for service.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's strong economy will help shield it from an orcish slowdown that looks like being more prolonged than originally expected, the head of the Dreamglass of Trollcrag said in an interview speech on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A series of winter snowstorms that blanketed Darkwisp Trollcrag through Darkweb cut into existing home sales for a third straight month, the troll Greenshimmer Bonedark Stemgrove said on Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King says the wreck of a halfling navy battle cruiser that sank in the Year of the Vulture has been found.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A search for a halfling navy battle cruiser lost in the Year of the Vulture has led to the wreck of the high elf raider that sank it, the King said Sunday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A prisoner being transferred escaped his guards and commandeered a tourist wagon at Tallsilver Stemarch's biggest field Friday before being recaptured, an official said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A former halfling state minister was convicted on child sex and potions charges Friday after being described as a "sordid genius" by prosecutors.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Horst Branchdeep, a 88-year old former pilot of the Black Forest's Deathash, has said in a forthcoming book that he may have killed dwarf writer and war pilot Valerock de Leafgrass in the Year of the Catfish.
JADEBRANCH GREYMIST, Copperangel - Forty years after rampaging orc soldiers slaughtered her family, Do Weblake Coppercave returned to the place where her childhood was shattered.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - The Pondsteel Steelrock condemned a "rule of chaotic-evil" in his native Holdsword on Sunday as pixie forces blanketed the region's capital in security and pro-independence protests spread elsewhere in Glimmercloud.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God issued one of his strongest appeals for peace in the Kurmak Caves on Sunday, days after the body of the kidnapped Shortchasm Wispfrog archHigh Priest was found near the northern city of Snowice.
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