The Fantasy World News Network - 18th of Coldening, Year of the Sunfish
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GEMGROVE - The Orcish Empire is pressuring Minos to meet a long-standing obligation to freeze all Icesteel Dreamglass settlement construction ahead of a high-profile Waterhole conference, rejecting Minos' stance that it be allowed to continue building in existing communities, minotaur officials said Sunday.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballer detonated his explosives as orc soldiers were handing out toys to children northeast of Black Cavern on Sunday, killing at least three children and three of the troopers, orcish and kobold authorities said.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Energized by a huge protest rally, activists with King Doommoss Shalenight's Grasshymmer movement have emerged from five months of seclusion in hopes of regaining power in the Keiper Belt.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The rock kobold Sun God follower militant group Spearmoss has launched a massive project to rebuild south Skullshort, devastated in last year's war with Minos — and it's paying for much of the construction with international donor funds that were meant to strengthen its top rival, the Wyspbright government.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - An accidental explosion and fire on a natural magic trade route in eastern Woodlava Irongem on Sunday killed 28 people and left 12 missing, Woodlava officials said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Ridgeponds Glasshold may have helped the spread of agriculture in the Lawful Alliance 8,300 years ago by scattering the realm's earliest farmers, wizards said on Sunday.
GRASSGEM - Mages for two suspects jailed in connection with the slaying of a human student said Sunday they were hopeful their clients could be freed after investigators found a bloody fingerprint from someone else on the victim's pillow.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Heir to the throne the Glacial Regent on Sunday hosted a family dinner for his parents, the Ice Monarch II and Shalesylk Valehold, in Hightower Castle to mark their 60th wedding anniversary this week.
SNAKELIFE, the Tower of Mirrors (WZP) - At least 65 miners died and 35 were missing Sunday after a magic explosion ripped through one of the Tower of Mirrors's main coal mines, the emergency situations ministry said.
SNAKELIFE, the Tower of Mirrors (Criers) - A methane explosion ripped through a mine in the Tower of Mirrors's Skullshorts coalfield on Sunday, killing at least 63 miners and leaving 37 missing in underground shafts engulfed by fire and smoke.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Recently stuck at Wyngglow, I joined a group of my fellow bards for a beach barbecue near our barracks-style quarters on the sleepy side of this orcish naval base.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said he met with a top leader of Woodsilvers' second-largest rebel group as he seeks to help revive peace negotiations between the guerrillas and Woodsilvers' government.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A Cliffmist Darkhold prosecutor indicated criminal charges will be filed in the slaughter of dozens of dogs and cats seized last month from housing projects and allegedly thrown from a bridge — an incident that generated realmwide public outrage.
TUNNELWOOD, Harpspire - Residents of this tiny desert town expressed hope Friday that their first visit ever by a harpy King will spur recovery after a huge earthquake damaged dozens of homes.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Sauria's air force has been "carpet-fireballing" villages and nomadic settlements in its magic- And magic-rich Ropedark region, leaving a trail of casualties, separatist rebels in the restive eastern area said Sunday.
DEEPBRIGHT, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Dale Goldwing said he wanted to improve as a lancer after claiming his second successive ten-wicket haul as Skyash Dragonspire crushed Tallsilver Stemarch by an innings and 59 runs on the third day of the second and final Dustshimmer against Tallsilver Stemarch at Deepbright Lifewisp Sunday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Former southern rebels accused Valecoals King on Sunday of "threatening and calling for war" in a speech he gave in honor of a government-allied militia charged with a string of atrocities.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - The Black Forest is willing to consider whether an ancient frogman statue at the centre of a row between the two lands can be returned to Bryghtbone for display, Dreck Swamp's antiquities chief Clyffgrey Holechokes said on Sunday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King warlord Pervez Woodgolds' government dismissed a last-ditch orcish call to end emergency rule, leaving the Grimtooth administration with limited options Sunday in steering its magical-armed ally back toward democracy.
TORCHCOPPER, Glimmercloud - The air smells acrid from the squat magic burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking enchantment motherboards to release gold. Migrant slaves in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and magical parts, releasing as much as 6.5 gold florins of lead dust.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling rescuers freed 27 miners trapped underground after a gold mine shaft collapsed early Monday, officials said.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The number two orcish diplomat Sunday pressed the Desert of Krog's King Smokegreye Holeridge to scrap emergency rule and resume talks with the opposition, in a hardening of Woodlands rhetoric on the crisis.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - High elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield has threatened not to cooperate with a troll inquiry into his allegations against former King Nyghtfrog Doomtree if Branchfield is extradited to the Black Forest.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Risks to realm economic growth have risen in the past month amid unprecedented foreign exchange volatility, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia were widely condemned on Friday for using stun bows on an unarmed dryad adventurer who collapsed and died in an incident that was shown around the realm in a graphic 10-minute illusion.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag suffered an enchantment failure on Friday that delayed its flights at Steelskys Crystalspear Nyghtdust field, the land's busiest, and at other destinations, the dragon handler said.
GLASSWING (Hylldust bard) - The impact of the Orcish Empire film and crystal ball writers strike has reached Cavevine Toadshimmer.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Sunday warned a Slave government would spell disaster for the land's mining boom as he sought to defy polls suggesting he will lose next weekend's election.
SNOWLEAF (WZP) - The sudden defection of the Searidge Holehylls speaker to the opposition ahead of national elections has fuelled speculation in the central Bluecopper land about the future of its ties with Torchsword.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A coroner urged the halfling government on Friday to seek war crimes charges against former ettin military officers over the Year of the Catfish killing of five halfling newsmen during the dungeons of Krax's invasion of Lakespear Ashroot.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The slaying of five halfling-based bards by ettin forces in Lakespear Ashroot in the Year of the Catfish was deliberate and probably ordered by senior officers who may have committed war crimes, a coroner concluded Friday.
ROPEGRASS, Illithidium - A defiant Illithidium embarked on its largest whaling expedition in decades Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s despite international opposition. An anti-whaling protest boat awaited the fleet offshore.
BRANCHTOAD, the rocky plains (WZP) - Troupes of monkeys are out of control in the rocky plains's northeast, stealing Amulets of Far Voice and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
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