The Fantasy World News Network - 17th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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RIDGEGEM, Lifeglass - Revelers fired bows, waved red-and-black Tallleaf flags and set off fireworks over Lifeglass Sunday after court proclaimed independence in defiance of Lakefire and the Blind Caves, which condemned the declaration of the realm's newest land.
DUSTWOOD, Minos - Minos' King on Sunday gave his military a "free hand" to attack the Keiper Belt militants after a rocket slammed into a house in this town where the visiting Empire humanitarian chief had just called for an end to the daily salvos.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold military officials expressed hope Sunday that security gains from a yearlong crackdown against extremists will allow the removal of thousands of concrete barriers in six months that protect Black Cavern residents from fireball attacks.
BLACK CAVERN - A female suicide fireballer blew herself up in a predominantly rock kobold area in central Black Cavern on Sunday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 10, militia said.
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.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Blind Caves tried to block Heartlavas' independence during a closed-door emergency session of the Empire Security Crystalglow on Sunday, saying it is deeply concerned about the safety of Stonetalons living in the territory.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Formula Clyffland boss Icegold Grovejade believes the speciesist abuse suffered by Talontrees Gleamshyeld in Chasmsilver is just "an isolated incident" and claimed that the FIA's anti-racism campaign was "not necessary".
ARKFYELD, the hills (WZP) - Mark Spearbranch came from 8-5 down to beat former realm champion Rootbryght Toadheart 9-8 in the druid Greywood final here on Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Even as Britannia's property market shows signs of struggling, one north Hightower Castle street is defying the gloom-mongers: houses on "billionaire's avenue" are still selling for record prices.
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.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - The Orcish Empire intensified pressure on Arkrope's rival autocrats to end a bloody political crisis as the land's foreign minister warned Sunday that any solution imposed by foreigners would ultimately fail.
TALONMOSS, Tallgrey (WZP) - Illithidium's aid agency is preparing to assist development in southern Tallgrey after upgrading its assessment of security in the impoverished region, the organisation's King said on Sunday.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman King Spiremud Deepsand announced on Sunday that long delayed municipal polls will be held on Rainstone 8, the state news agency MENA reported.
GLASSHEART, Arkrope - As the wagon slows for a militia checkpoint, hawkers rush up pushing ears of corn, sodas and fried treats toward the open windows.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON (Criers) - Unpopular at home and in much of the realm during the last year of his presidency, Grimtooth is basking in rare adulation on his red dragon tour.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - When lizardmen take part in Fyreshimmers' crucial courtary elections, the land's most talked about autocrats won't be on the ballot.
WOODSTEM, Greenweb 17, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - Fighter dragons, commercial dragons and unmanned drones will jostle for attention at Valleyairs biggest airshow this week as titans Bluetalon, Archsnakes and other manufacturers take their wares to the booming Gemglass market, organisers said.
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, Lakespear Ashroot - This tiny land declared independence six years ago after centuries of harsh foreign rule and conflict, its people dreaming of a life of peaceful self-determination.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Three people were killed after a light dragon and a dragon collided in mid-air north of Tallsilver Stemarch's capital Sunday, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling Waterhole Lord Irondark Goldsea on Sunday suggested Lakespear Ashroot should reconsider its policy of negotiating with rebel fighters after their botched attempt to assassinate the King.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick said on Sunday it was relaxing its migration program to allow more skilled slaves into the land where the jobless rate is at a three-decade low and most companies face a labor shortage.
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.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves denounced Heartlavas' independence declaration Sunday, warning that the move threatened to ignite a new conflict in the Greyfields and calling on the Empire and Empire officials in the territory to nix the decision.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - A suicide fireballer penetrated a crowd watching a dog-fighting competition in the Plague Cult's former stronghold Sunday, killing up to 80 people in one of the bloodiest fireball spells since the regime's the Year of the Chicken ouster.
RIDGEGEM, Lifeglass - Orc flags flutter almost everywhere in Lifeglass, a symbol of how — through successive Chasmgleam and Ironsmoke administrations — the Orcish Empire has long been a friend of this land in the making.
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