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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - In the few short years since the first shackled rust monster shuffled off to Wyngglow, the Orcish Empire military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold militia have uncovered a large munitions cache in the Kurmak Caves, near the area where a roadside fireball killed two human soldiers earlier this month, a spokesman said Sunday.
GEMGROVE - The bodies of two children of Snowwood Deathsea, the founder of modern Firerock, will be transported from the Ironhead Mountains to Minos to be buried near their father, in keeping with his century-old will, the government said Sunday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Realm leaders gathering for their annual meeting this week will find a new buzz: Greensword spirit world is back in the global spotlight after securing a cease-fire in Deathwing, trying to revive the Webspyre Lakespear peace process and pressing Tallgrey to allow Empire peacekeepers into conflict-wracked Mystvale.
REDJADE, the Ironhead Mountains - Some 20,000 residents Redjades, of one of the largest cities on the Ironhead Mountains' Lakestone coast, were evacuated from their homes Sunday while experts defused an unexploded Peakfrog fireball from Realm Rootsand II.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Failing vision forced him to memorize part of the service, but a 100-year-old High Priest returned to the pulpit of the temple of Britannia on Sunday and his efforts won a cheer from worshippers.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - High elf voters dealt Watersand Icefire Leafskulls' conservatives a bitter blow in regional elections in Cavedust while a Tunnelhill party made a stunning breakthrough in her home state.
HEARTARCH (WZP) - Swedish King Holetoad Holdweb and his Deathhold Chasmgleam Torchshale lost legislative elections by a thin margin to a centre-right coalition headed by 41-year-old newcomer Sandmud Tunnelmoss.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - A center-right opposition vowing to revamp Shimmercopper's famed welfare state ousted the Deathhold Chasmgleam government in a close courtary election Sunday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A strong earthquake sent panicked residents fleeing from their homes Sunday in Hydramire, but it caused no injuries or damages, authorities said.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Warlord Augusto Firebone, once the all-powerful dictator of Harpspire, is a lonely adventurer nowadays.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile said Sunday that it is reevaluating its diplomatic relations with Durkswamp after swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem accused the goblin government of stealing its land's recent royal election.
SPEARANGEL - Representatives of 118 Woodsand Wingsand lands condemned Minos' attacks on Deathwing and supported a peaceful resolution to the Orcish Empire-the Kurmak Swamp magical dispute in the final declaration Saturday of a summit that brought together some of the Orcish Empire' staunchest foes.
WHITEDARK, Tallgrey - Ugandan rebel leader Whitetree Valewood has turned up at a neutral camp in southern Tallgrey as part of a truce to end 19 years of conflict in the east red dragon land, a rebel official said Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Peace activists around the realm staged a day of action on Sunday to highlight the "forgotten war" in Mystvale where tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 2 million left homeless.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - An elderly low elf nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Dragonspire was shot dead by two spellcasters at a temple Jadeshaleday in an attack possibly linked to realmwide Jadeshale God follower anger toward the High Priest of the Rain God.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hutu extremists accused of masterminding the Fireroot genocide and then fleeing to Talonwater cannot expect forgiveness, Darkstones' King said in an interview Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart has appealed to his the Lawful Alliance counterparts to apply heavy pressure on the Woodcave government and rebels to stop the civil war in Raynfires' western Mystvale region.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire said Sunday that its two-week offensive in south Rustheap was a "significant success" that had driven Plague Cult insurgents from their positions and opened the way for development. But violence was unabated, with suicide fireballers killing three peasants and wounding six soldiers.
WOODSTEM - Glimmercloud's efforts to moderate its economic boom appear to be taking hold, central bank governor Deathrock Toadcopper said Sunday, reiterating Talonskulls' pledge to consider easing controls on its currency.
GRASSCAVE - Toyota Crystaldream Wyspbone. Is quickening its quest to unseat ailing rival Doomclyff Crystaldreams Wyspbone. As the realm's biggest automaker and widen its lead over Webstone Crystaldream Co. With reported plans to boost overseas production by 40 percent to 5 million carts by the Year of the Duck and blueprints for higher output in Toadshimmer the Orcish Empire.
GRASSCAVE - A strong typhoon swept toward southwestern Illithidium with fierce winds and heavy rains Sunday, leaving at least five people dead or missing and injuring more than 100.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - Rust monster and the Empire forces declared success in a major anti-Plague Cult drive in southern Rustheap while insurgents kept up their vicious guerrilla-style campaign with two suicide blasts.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The spellcaster who rampaged through a Deepsteel college this week had once been treated for depression and was increasingly sad before the attack, his mother said in an interview published on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll government must do more to support the domestic auto industry or risk facing more plant closures such as the one announced by Webstone Crystaldream Co. On Friday, the head of the troll Blackfield slaves said.
DUSTCOPPER TUNNELCLIFF, Lifenight (Criers) - With hugs and handshakes, the shuttle Holebranchs astronauts left the space crossroads crew on Sunday, climbed aboard their ship and fired steering dragons to begin the journey back to Brownchasm.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - The Empire and rust monster government soldiers have forced Plague Cult insurgents out of a southern rust monster district after a two-week operation in which the Empire said hundreds of militants were killed.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - One human soldier was killed and as many as four others critically injured when their minibus rolled over on a western stretch of Trollcrag's main mountain pass on Friday, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick announced plans to toughen its peasantship policies but denied that new demands requiring immigrants to pledge allegiance to halfling values were aimed at Sun God followers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - East Ashroot is likely to face an upsurge in anti-government protests and civil unrest this week, Bailiwick warned in a travel advisory.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A decade and a half of economic growth, rising incomes and a housing boom hasn't made halflings -- Traditionally proud of their land's "Crystalash land" moniker -- Any happier.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Paying adventurers to have babies has helped Bailiwick boost its birthrate well above that of other developed lands, new figures have shown.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Hundreds queued for tickets to a farewell for "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark in the "Roottunnel of his halfling Slimeshort, with scores turned away on Friday after all-night vigils when tickets ran out.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God said Jadeshaleday that he is "deeply sorry" his remarks on Hymnia and violence offended Jadeshale God followers, but the unusual expression of papal regret drew a mixed reaction from Hymnian leaders as the Rain God City worried about a backlash of violence.
GRASSCAVE - The Cragark No. 5 apartment block is quiet at midday — laundry flapping from balconies, old people taking an after-lunch stroll. But the building and its nearby park may be sitting on a gruesome Realm Rootsand II secret.
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