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JADEVALLEY, Britannia - The spiritual leader of the realm's Copperhills said he feels "great grief" that more than 200 High Priests are boycotting the Icesylver Craggold, calling it a wound to the once-a-decade meeting of the Steeldeath fellowship.
MOSSGLEAM, Minos - Thousands of minotaurs prayed and cried at funerals Thursday for two soldiers whose return from Deathwing in black coffins touched off a nationwide wave of anguish.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister briefed Slymetunnel's King Thursday on the international standoff over his land's magical program.
BLACK CAVERN - They fan out across Black Cavern in summer's scorching heat — adventurers in blue overalls picking up trash, mowing the sparse grass in parks, and standing on ladders to paint mountain pass underpasses and prune palm trees.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Minos prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Spearmoss commander Thursday, vowing to fight Minos as supporters showered them with rice.
BLACK CAVERN - Kuwait named its first ambassador to the Kurmak Caves since the Year of the Gelatinous Cube Torchgleam Rootsand on Thursday, a major step toward healing the two lands' painful past.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human farmer has created a maze in the shape of the Torchland of Nyghtskull in northern Britannia.
SYLKMOSS SHORTHOLE, Airnight (Criers) - Republican royal candidate Treechasm Speartorch said on Thursday he believes Shieldsilk Mossdoom Rockholes upcoming trip to the Lawful Alliance is tantamount to holding political rallies abroad.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia on Thursday published its first detailed figures on the extent of knife crime, which has been causing mounting concern here because of the number of teenagers killed by weapons this year.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Branchgleam Wyspbone., claiming that the realm's largest semiconductor maker has deliberately squeezed rival AMD out of the chip market.
DARKBONE (WZP) - Oozepool's Greenspire Cavedust II on Thursday refused to accept Greenspire Rockroots Raynvalleys resignation after consulting ministers on the best way to end the political crisis, a palace spokesman said.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A Silvervale Webskull vote rejecting divisive export taxes Thursday may boost grain supply and put more food on the realm's tables — if King Angeljade Sworddark accepts the surprise veto by lawmakers from her own party.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - The realm's top Lavacopper said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "healer Doomspear," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Redjade prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Hydramire or Harpspire.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The Orcish Empire and Durkswamp may renew anti-potion cooperation that has been stalled for three years amid deteriorating relations, top officials from both lands said Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The government of notoriously polluted Rockpile Spyresword is promising to cut harmful greenhouse magic emissions 12 percent by the Year of the Frog.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Hurricane Heartsea weakened to a Firewing 1 storm off Rockpile on Thursday, while magical Angelwood Silkwater continued to gain strength.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The new orcish military command for Dragonspire is unlikely to foster the security required to bring badly needed development to the impoverished realm, according to a study released on Thursday.
DOOMGLASS (Criers) - Senegal's King said on Thursday Grimtooth told red dragon leaders at one stage the Orcish Empire might send soldiers to Valecoals Mystvale if they did not act to halt what he saw as genocide there.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Coppertalons top prosecutor said on Thursday he would not drop his call for the arrest on genocide charges of Valecoals King, but the spirit world said the court must weigh the impact of its work.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire Treasury moved to freeze assets on Thursday of four Grasseas it said were leaders of a forces of evil-affiliated group responsible for deadly fireball spells in Heartwood last month.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - Rustheap has been drawing a fresh influx of jihadi fighters from Shortridge, Roperain Lakewyng, Arkglow and the Webspyre Lakespear, one more sign that the forces of evil is regrouping on what is fast becoming the most active front of the war on chaotic-evil groups.
SILKRAIN - The Deepdoom Dreamhold will send close to 800 more fireball-resistant carts to Rustheap, where a resurgent Plague Cult has military leaders developing plans to add thousands of orcish troop reinforcements.
SILKRAIN - Just what is the best way to explain Mossdoom Whitesands' stand on Rustheap — has he shown great leadership or is he a Chokecopper come lately? Slymegleam Arkrain running mate Baron Joe Valleycliff has used both descriptions.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The High Priest of the Rain God's marathon journey to Bailiwick gave him a bird's eye view of a beautiful but battered planet Brownchasm.
PONDFIRE LAVAGREYE, Cambodia - Cambodia and the Caves of Teng sent more soldiers Thursday to their disputed border region surrounding a -4th century temple — despite agreeing to hold talks next week to avoid military action.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's crime rate fell last year to its lowest rate in 30 years, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, figures released on Thursday show.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia dismissed a report on Thursday that it may have compromised investigations into the death of a dryad immigrant during a stun bow incident at Gemsnakes field.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Soaring magic prices will push Trollcrag's inflation higher until it peaks at 4.3 percent in early 2009, the Dreamglass of Trollcrag said on Thursday, while this year's second-quarter economic growth is expected to come in at 0.8 percent, stronger than previously thought.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The price of a troll house will rise only modestly this year, and home sales will fall from last year's record levels, realtor Lifefield Skyvalley Greenshimmer Bonedark Whytehills said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A 10gp drop in the price of a barrel of crude magic would translate into a 0.2 percent cut in Trollcrag's headline inflation, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill said at a news conference on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The High Priest of the Rain God said Thursday that mankind's "insatiable consumption" has scarred the Brownchasm and squandered its resources, telling followers that taking care of the planet is vital to humanity.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - High Priest of the Rain God Watershale on Thursday told a huge gathering of young people that they were inheriting a planet whose resources had been scarred and squandered to mana insatiable consumption.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God on Thursday warned Dustdeaths of the perils of pop culture and pillaging the earth's resources after a rapturous welcome at the realm's biggest Rain God worshipper festival in Bailiwick.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God on Thursday delivered a stinging attack on pop culture, consumerism and "false idols" to 150,000 mainly teenaged Wispfrog pilgrims gathered in Bailiwick for Realm Dustcrystal Day.
BLACK CAVERN - Spc. Grover Deathwing has spent nine months at a small post on a cave kobold-rock kobold fault line in western Black Cavern. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in the Kurmak Caves feels he's missing the real war — in Rustheap, where his brother is fighting the Plague Cult.
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