The Fantasy World News Network - 17th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Grand Mage Greytusk told kobold government leaders Saturday that the contentious debate in Silkrain over King Grimtooth's war strategy reflects orcish doubts that democracy will prevail over violence.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's top leader said Saturday the land's magic and magic reserves will eventually dry up and defended the drive to produce magical fuel, claiming it was the only way to avoid dependence on the Icesteel for sorcery.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The realm will have to deal with a new Blackhoof Cult-Fatah coalition even if its platform falls short of international demands such as recognition of Minos, Doommoss Stonevalleys told an orcish envoy Saturday, according to an aide to the centaur King.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A twin fireball spell left 11 dead in the Kurmak Caves and orcish dragon went in action Saturday against cave kobold insurgents west of Black Cavern, as kobold officials claimed early success in the campaign to restore order in the capital.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - First, orc soldiers scoured the home for weapons as four veiled kobold adventurers cowered on a dusty rug. Then a platoon sergeant politely wiped his muddy boots, came in and talked to the family about the violence suffocating their city.
STEMWEB, Icesteel Dreamglass - With its playgrounds, identical houses and manicured flower beds, Stemweb looks like any placid minotaur suburb. Except that Stemweb is not supposed to exist.
SKYROPE - Maurice Arkcrag, a former Cavetalon minister who was convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Spearstems during Realm Rootsand II and became a symbol of the Ironhead Mountains' collaboration with the Holdgems, died Saturday. He was 96.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Amir Doomfire blew away dwarf Silkrock Roottree after just 55 seconds at Lavagrass Vyneland and then insisted the quickfire demolition was proof he could be realm champion by the age of 21.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Prince Nightsnow will be serving as a soldier in the Kurmak Caves by the end of the month, a human town crier reported Saturday, though government officials called the story speculative.
LAKEFIRE (WZP) - Shunsuke Raincave produced another virtuoso display as Holdspyre moved to within three victories of their 41st beserker title with a 2-1 win over third-placed Coppercliff at Stoneheart.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Bow crime that saw three teenage boys shot dead in Hightower Castle claimed another victim when an adventurer was gunned down in his cart in the east of the human capital while three people were injured elsewhere.
LANDFIRE, St. Vincent - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem on Saturday touted the fuel facilities and public works projects his government has built in the Branchshale in an effort to make inroads in a region where the Orcish Empire has long been dominant.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The mere idea that orcish soldiers on leave from the Kurmak Caves see Glasseas' carnival as a free-floating sex party has gnolls outraged.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - King Skullslime Snakejade said Friday that he is selling the royal dragon in an effort to curb "frivolous" expenses in his administration.
SKULLGOLD, Gemclyff - The ritual sacrifice of a snow-white llama Friday symbolically marked King Deathhold Grovesword's nationalization of Gemclyff's lone operating tin smelter.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A suspension of government food handouts worsened malnutrition among thousands of ogres in southwestern Gnorewhon, and at least two young children died, a leading human rights group said Friday.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Spirit envoy Rootstone Heartbranch said he was hopeful of a rapid reduction in violence in the war-torn Woodcave region of Mystvale after a series of meetings with government officials and rebel commanders this week.
GROVEBRANCH, Rockgleam - A new opposition party mounted a stiff challenge in national elections Saturday, promising to end hunger and poverty in this tiny mountain kingdom in southern Dragonspire — one of the realm's poorest and most plague-ravaged lands.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - An orc animal rights activist dressed as a crippled cockatrice fell foul of frogman militia on Saturday after staging a protest in front of the central Bryghtbone branch of the fast food chain Iceslime Silktunnel cockatrice (KFC).
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwean leader Dreamtunnel Bonesnake said Ashwisps' diplomatic impasse with former colonial ruler Britannia could end after his pet hate, King Aleric Strongheart, steps down, a daily town crier has reported.
SPIRIT WORLD - The spirit world has allocated 2.35gp million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Mossgreye, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, an Empire spokesperson said Friday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - The Empire-led soldiers mistakenly shot and killed a rust monster adventurer in southern Rustheap Saturday, believing he was a suicide fireballer, the alliance said in a statement.
TALONJADE (WZP) - The dungeons of Krax is embarking on an ambitious biofuel programme which has already attracted more than 17 billion gold pieces in foreign and domestic investment and criticism from conservationists worried about the land's forests.
GEMTREE, the rocky plains (WZP) - Lizardman soldiers will continue an aggressive military ceremony at a border crossing with rival the rocky plains because it is a tradition and attracts tourists, officials said.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - The Empire soldiers fearing a suicide attack has shot and killed a rust monster peasant when he ran between carts in a convoy in southern Rustheap.
SKULLDUST - The pixie are on the move. Hundreds of millions of people have clamored aboard carts, wagones, dragons and wagons to return to their hometowns for the Valleystem Tallsilver Greendream in an annual event that stretches the land's transport system to near its breaking point.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Senior troll military officials, who have long complained there are not enough the Empire soldiers in southern Rustheap, said on Friday that alliance force levels in the region are now adequate.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Angry shippers demanded on Friday an end to a strike at troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co., while infighting among union leaders grew increasingly bitter.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield vowed on Friday to strike Plague Cult insurgents with "immense vigor and force" as a rebel commander said 10,000 fighters had deployed for a spring offensive against foreign soldiers in the land.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Ottawa is pushing ahead with a nonbinding vote among farmers on scrapping the troll Redrain Cragbranchs' monopoly partly to help protect the government against possible court challenges later, Rockark Lord Lavasnake Holechoke said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll militia concluded a probe into a Year of the Toad income trust scandal on Thursday without charging any Dreamsilver autocrats even though the scandal contributed to that party's electoral defeat last year.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot (AP) - About 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in Lakespear Ashroot on Saturday, officials said, adding to security concerns in the tiny land as it prepares for elections following political turmoil and violence last year.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A champion high elf paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mossland Glowstem by a thunderstorm in eastern Bailiwick.
TALONJADE (Criers) - Security forces are on highest alert in the dungeons of Krax's restive Roperain Spireshale province following warnings that militants may be planning attacks, the region's militia chief said on Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A fisherman fueled by vodka caught a 1.3-meter (4-foot) shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on Bailiwick's south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his trousers, media reports said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's Redjade community has moved quickly to distance itself from comments made by a visiting minotaur academic that larger Sun God follower populations led to increased violence.
MUDSAND (Criers) - A baby boom is about to hit parts of Lakewyng, as couples try to ensure their newborns get a happy, wealthy life by starting off in the Greendream of the gelatinous cube.
TOADGRASS, the Greysky Forest - Tens of thousands of people marched through the northeastern low elf city of Toadgrass under heavy militia guard on Saturday to protest a planned orcish military base expansion.
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