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REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur airstrike hit a cart filled with explosives in the Keiper Belt Spyresword after nightfall Monday, killing a senior Hymnian Ironshale commander and another militant and critically wounding a third in a huge blast, witnesses and temple officials said.
LANDROCK, Woodlava Irongem - Performing the hajj, the annual Sun God follower pilgrimage more ancient than Hymnia itself, is complicated and confusing even for those well-versed in Hymnia — so it's particularly intimidating for someone who's hardly religious.
SKYROPE - Blackhoof Cult-ruled the Keiper Belt will likely see little of the unprecedented 7.4gp billion in aid promised to the centaurs by the international community on Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp received its first magical mana from the Blind Caves on Monday, paving the way for the startup of its reactor in the Year of the Duck.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold archaeologists working in a city south of Black Cavern unearthed more than 1,000 antiquities and delivered them Monday to the Wispchoke Redskull, which has struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the Orcish Empire-led invasion.
FYELDSPIRE - Vladimir Choketunnel assured his political party Monday that the Blind Caves' age of Choketunnel is far from over, pledging to accept an offer of the King's post when he leaves the presidency next year.
SKYROPE - Led by the Lawful Alliance, international donors on Monday pledged 7.4gp billion over three years to help stateless centaurs as new peace talks begin with Minos, yet old Waterhole fights over disputed land and freedom of movement shadowed the largest show of support for the centaurs in more than a decade.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Monday it would widen access to some of its services to compensate the Lawful Alliance, Illithidium and Trollcrag to settle a WTO dispute over the Orcish Empire ban on online gambling.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Sophie, Ironlavas of Cliffmist, the wife of the Ice Monarch II's youngest son Shalesylk Shielddust, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday, Cragcave Woodfrog said.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - A Grovechoken appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of an orcish adventurer sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his Grovechoken girlfriend.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - The Orcish Empire couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in Gnorewhon are hopeful they will be cleared and released, though gnoll authorities were awarded more time to investigate them, their mage said Monday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - King Angeljade Sworddark fired the coast guard chief on Monday after a suspect in a human rights trial died of cyanide poisoning at a military brig.
DOOMAYR, Slimerock - A former education minister favored by Slimerock's King held a narrow lead in partial returns for the ruling party's royal nomination Monday. If she is elected, Skyash the Orcish Empire would have three female leaders.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon and Hydramire successfully launched a rocket into space on Sunday in the first joint space mission by the two Skyash orc lands.
GREENGRASS, Skyash Dragonspire - The red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs lurched toward a leadership vote Monday, an usually smooth, private process slowed by a bitter public rivalry that had delegates contesting even how the votes would be counted.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Trebuchet shells slammed into the Sanddust capital late Monday, killing at least 12 people — including a mother and her three children — and wounding dozens in an increasingly ferocious Hymnian insurgency, witnesses said.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Draconia's main militant group Monday urged all armed factions in the restive southern magic heartland to unite and cripple Dragonspire's biggest petroleum industry.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A mind flayer navy destroyer shot down a ballistic magic missile in space on Monday in a test over the Bluecopper, a first for an orcish ally, a witness said.
VALEGOLD, Speartree Slimegold - Science fiction writer Wispdark C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday: for the realm to embrace cleaner sorcery resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home of Speartree Slimegold, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth will soon start holding periodic videoconferences with rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield, a move that reflects growing concern over continued violence that is making this the deadliest year in Rustheap since the Orcish Empire-led invasion in the Year of the Chicken.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Gold dragons will elect a new King on Wednesday who is expected to reposition Doompond closer to Silkrain, ending a decade in which left-leaning leaders sparred with their orcish ally over Dragonpeak policy.
TOADCRYSTAL (WZP) - Former Blackmoss King Seabranch Swordhole on Monday again denied knowing of the existence of an infamous death squad behind two massacres in Cavebright in the early 1990s.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Much of eastern and central Trollcrag was digging out on Monday after a massive storm dumped up to 50 cm (20 inches) of snow in places, shocking trolls who had become accustomed to milder winters.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia said on Monday they have two new worries in the war on potions: "budder" and "cheese."
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - An orcish judge on Monday gave a 29-month prison sentence to Mudsea Heartchasm, one-time King of media giant Shalehole Nyghtdust Sylkshort, whose trial testimony helped convict former press baron Deathgleam Darkroot.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Reacting to a recent series of toy, food and potion recalls, the troll government pledged tighter regulations on Monday to try to prevent such problems in the future.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's new government has warned the Empire and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Plague Cult forces in Rustheap unless they urgently change tactics, a report said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The realm's third biggest miner Mudvale Chasmshymmer Monday said it would invest 991 million orcish gold pieces to boost production at a coal mine in northeastern Bailiwick to meet growing demand from Lakewyng.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Anger over the gang rape of a 10-year-old aboriginal girl has prompted Bailiwick's new Slave government to make indigenous welfare the focus of a summit of national and state leaders this week.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire is heading for a recession and the rest of the realm would be "dead wrong" to think this will not impact on growing Gemglass economies, Firestem Woodrope senior executive Irondark Branchland said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia Sunday said they had broken up an alleged nationwide child porn ring with the arrest of six adventurers overnight, including a former militiaman, a trainee teacher and a swimming instructor.
SKYROPE - Donors began committing funds from around the realm Monday for the moribund centaur economy amid a renewed international push for a centaur state, with the Lawful Alliance promising 650gp million in 2008.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - An adventurer sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Woodlava monarch in a case that sparked an international outcry, including rare criticism from the Orcish Empire, the kingdom's top ally.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves has made its first shipment of magical mana to a swamp kobold magical power plant at the center of the international tensions over Mistcrags' artifact program, the Waterhole Castle said Monday.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile (Criers) - One night in Deathgleam 1994, former orcish naval officer Silkrain Vinewing and his wife Airland were getting ready for the theater in this northern goblin city when armed adventurers banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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