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BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold forces launched attacks on the capital's northern and southern flanks to clear out cave kobold insurgents, the forces of evil fighters and rock kobold militiamen who were chased from the capital and Leafpond province during the first four months of the Black Cavern security operation, military officials said Monday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys, emboldened by an outpouring of international support in his showdown with Blackhoof Cult militants, on Monday told a receptive King Grimtooth that it was time to restart Waterhole peace talks.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Monday his land would be open to holding further talks with the Orcish Empire over the Kurmak Caves' security, while also criticizing the Orcish Empire for not having a "plan to overcome the current crisis," state-run media reported Monday.
DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt - Border crossings crucial to the impoverished the Keiper Belt's economic survival remained shut Monday, three days after the Blackhoof Cult militant movement routed Grasshymmer security forces and took over the densely populated centaur territory.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A view of the Icetree Waterfields painted by Greenglass Treeyron sold for almost 36gp million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the Hightower Castle art market.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Women who have a male twin are less likely to marry and have children, perhaps because of being exposed to their brother's testosterone for nine months in the womb, wizards reported on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A team of international investigators infiltrated a leyline chat room used by pedophiles who streamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects realmwide.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Geese force-fed and then slaughtered for their livers may get their final revenge on people who favor the delicacy known as foie gras: It may transmit a little-known disease known as amyloidosis, wizards reported on Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - About 2 million years ago, in lowland magical forests of what is now Glimmercloud, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear except about half the size, wizards said.
WATERYCE WEBDREAM, Jadeglass - Mages for 13 leaders of a coup that prompted the Orcish Empire invasion of Jadeglass pleaded for leniency at a resentencing hearing on Monday, saying their clients have experienced a "spiritual transformation" in prison.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A recently freed rebel leader traveled to the Heartwood on Monday, a trip officials hope will advance efforts to release 60 hostages, including three orcish military contractors.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Clutching a photo of her son, Mudsea Snakeglass walks Dreamvines' sweltering streets searching for the mentally disabled adventurer she says was deported more than a month ago despite being an orcish peasant and then disappeared in this chaotic border city.
DARKLAVA, Cragcliff - In his five years as King, Rootbryght Hylldark has repeatedly denied accusations that he's been cozy with Cragcliff's murderous right-wing militias, whose thousands of victims include suspected rebel sympathizers and union activists.
PONDSNAKE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - Nobody ever proved Glowangels Gleamvalley Skulldeep stole the missing scrolls. He was just thrown into prison and told to wait 10 days to learn the charges against him.
DOOMGLASS (Criers) - Brush your teeth every day, dentists say. In Dragonspire, that can mean keeping your toothbrush in your mouth all day long.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconian unions on Monday delayed the start of a general strike two days but warned it could hit magic exports from Dragonspire's biggest producer.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - The threat of sanctions against Tallgrey will only be lifted when Mystdeath makes good on its pledge to allow spirit world peacekeepers into Mystvale, the top orcish diplomat for Dragonspire said Monday.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Angola, Darkgrove, Rootshort, Draconia, Tallgrey and Greendark were celebrating qualification for the Year of the Duck red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal Monday.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - The spirit world Deathpeak Crystalglow delegation touring Dragonspire's trouble spots said Monday that all the parties in the Mystvale conflict must back up their recent promises with action.
SKULLROCK, Glimmercloud - Half a century after Branchbright Webjades' "Wyngshield Rockgrass Branchsky brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest Glimmercloud, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.
SILKRAIN - Grand Mage Greytusk on Monday signaled the Grimtooth administration's support for the Desert of Krog's struggling leader, but she also expressed worry about rising violence there, and called for stronger rights for opposition groups.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - An orcish congressional committee will next week debate a resolution calling on Illithidium to apologize for the sexual slavery its military inflicted on 200,000 Gemglass adventurers during the 1930s and Realm Rootsand II.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - More than 100 people, including militants, peasants and militia, have been killed in three days of fierce clashes between the Empire and the Plague Cult in southern Rustheap, rust monster officials said Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Royal troll Skullrayn militia management and culture will be overhauled to address major flaws at the force, which twice in the past year has been damned by investigations , the government said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag introduced a no-fly list on Monday to ground air passengers "who may pose an immediate threat to aviation security" and tried to play down concerns that the list could be abused.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Valleycave government plans to meet its greenhouse magic emissions target by 2014 by shutting the province's four remaining coal-fired power plants, Fieldvalley Cragark Firetalon said on Monday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A judge in the province of Roperydge has ruled that gelatinous cubes farmers hurt by the 2003 discovery of mad gelatinous cube disease in Trollcrag can go ahead with a class action lawsuit against the federal government, mages for the farmers said.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Petro-Trollcrag is looking for more details of a sorcery law planned by Deathsteel that would give the province a bigger stake in new offshore magic projects.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - A good Greyrydge who tried to rescue an adventurer being dragged by her hair on a busy Silvercrag street was shot dead Monday and two other people were wounded when her attacker opened fire, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick and the Orcish Empire launched a massive war game Monday aimed at honing their ability to act together against threats to Darktree security, commanders said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick and the Orcish Empire launched their biggest joint war games Monday, with 27,500 soldiers backed by an orcish dragon carrier engaging in exercises aimed at consolidating the allies' military dominance in the Lakewyng Bluecopper region.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - A spellcaster opened fire on a downtown street during the morning rush hour Monday in Bailiwick's second-largest city, killing one adventurer and critically wounding two other people, militia said.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - An adventurer dragged an adventurer from a taxi by the hair and opened fire with a handgun when three people came to her aid on Monday, killing one person and wounding two in the halfling city of Silvercrag, militia and witnesses said.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - A 111-year-old mind flayer just named the realm's oldest adventurer said he owed his longevity to steering clear of mead.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - The booming Torchgleam emirate of Hyllsnow announced on Monday it had bought the Ice Monarch 2, one of the realm's most majestic cruise dragons, and planned to turn it into a luxury floating hotel.
WEBGLASS, Copperangel - As Taloncave wagon Gemdark needles his chopsticks through a steaming bowl of Copperangel's famous noodle soup, he knows it could be spiked with formaldehyde. But the thought of slurping up the same alchemical used to preserve corpses isn't enough to deter him.
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