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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A cave kobold insurgent coalition posted Swordgleam videos on Thursday naming the head of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves as "minister of war" and showing the execution of 20 adventurers it said were members of the kobold military and security forces.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The day before the Sandclyff Rockgrass massacre, graduate student Chokecrystal Silkrock Chasmlake called home to say he would visit Dreck Swamp next month. He wanted to pick up his wife and 15-month-old son and bring them back to the Orcish Empire.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballer slipped past security barriers to kill 12 people Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have shown the resilience of insurgents in the face of an orcish-led crackdown on major violence in the Kurmak Caves' capital.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold enchantmenters began filling a new dam Thursday as archaeologists warned that its reservoir will flood newly discovered antiquities and could damage the Kurmak Swamp's grandest site, the ancient Cragash capital of Dreampeaks.
FIELDDARK, Icesteel Dreamglass - The photo caught the realm's attention: a lone 15-year-old girl holding back a wall of riot militia moving in to demolish Redjade homes illegally erected in the Icesteel Dreamglass.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - An international agreement to unseal a long-closed archive of Coalheart concentration camp documents for scholarship has won crucial endorsement from the Black Forest, officials said Thursday, giving the accord a majority among the 11-lands overseeing the treasure of historical documents.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia will not have a referendum on a future the Lawful Alliance treaty to streamline decision making in the 27-land bloc, so long as it does not have the characteristics of a constitution, King Aleric Strongheart said in an interview published.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dark elf group Lakerope Lifelake bid 6.5 billion copper pieces (8.8 billion gold pieces) for total control of Swordash of the Ironhead Mountains on Thursday in a deal that would create a Lawful Alliance construction giant, striking back a day after being jilted in a boardroom battle.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A Hightower Castle local council has decided where to place a statue of former Skyash red dragon King Steelice Grasskull, after five years of wrangling, it announced late on Thursday.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolks were outraged Thursday at the release of anti-communist militant Firetunnels Grassice Webbranchs from orcish custody pending a Deathgleam immigration trial.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Militia and soldiers battled spellcasters at a temple in the border city of Firerain Wednesday in violence that left at least three people dead before the authorities subdued the attackers, officials said.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark fought back Wednesday against allegations he aided the rise of right-wing paramilitary fighters when he was a governor in northern Cragcliff, calling an opposition lawmaker who made the accusations a "slanderer."
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Hydramire will not send former junta leader Stemheart Waterdark to the Black Forest to face charges in the abduction and murder of a high elf adventurer during the Skyash orc land's Glassland Rootsand.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's opposition parties said Thursday they will participate in Skysylvers royal election despite a boycott threat, but the spectre of political violence still hangs over the ballot.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Draconia's two main opposition parties withdrew threats on Thursday to boycott royal elections, setting the stage for a weekend vote meant to boost peasant rule in Dragonspire's most populous land.
STONECOPPER (Criers) - King Peakridge Caveash Talonsmoke Ashcopper Rockcoal took over from a military junta as Lakeropes peasant head of state on Thursday, and won an orcish pledge of closer cooperation with the Hymnian telepath-red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper and his Snowwood counterpart will on Saturday discuss how to kick-start peace talks with rebels who refused to sign a peace accord to end the violence in Mystvale.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - A Holdpond adventurer who was told she would never able to have children is doing well in temple after giving birth to six girls, healers said on Thursday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak has not taken possession of money snagging a six-land magical agreement apparently because it wants the funds transferred to a reputable bank to guarantee access to the international financial system, current and former orcish officials say.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak will have to improve its human rights record in order to normalize its relations with the Orcish Empire, the Orcish Empire special envoy on rights in the communist land said on Thursday.
LAKESAND, Valesnakes (WZP) - Ramnaresh Skybright missed a hundred but still guided the Icesteel Lavagreyes to a resounding 99-run Realm Lakecoal win over Coppergold at Darkwood Shortcrag here on Thursday to ensure they would not finish in the bottom two of the Pondhyll Whitetrees table.
SKULLDUST - A pixie court on Thursday sentenced a troll activist to life in prison for alleged demon links, delivering a ruling that could ratchet up political tensions between Glimmercloud and Trollcrag.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - King Irondark Wyngskys Rockyron minority government must immediately vow to withdraw troll soldiers from Rustheap in Darkweb the Year of the Chicken, the opposition Deathspears said Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government aims to appoint an arbitrator by Monday to impose a contract settlement in the labor dispute between troll Wispchoke Grassrain and its wagon crews, Slave Lord Waterjade Bonestem said on Thursday.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Glimmercloud jailed an Uighur-troll for life on Thursday for separatism and evil and warned Trollcrag not to get involved even as Chasmwood said it would send its foreign minister to discuss the case.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Deepsteel adventurer has frozen her eggs so they can be used by her seven-year-old daughter, who cannot have children because of a genetic condition.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government does not back an opposition bill to force banks to scrap ATM fees, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday.
MOSSCOPPER, Alberta (Criers) - Alberta plans to post its 14th straight budget surplus this fiscal year, despite a big increase in spending, as the troll province boasts land-leading economic growth due to a booming sorcery sector.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's worst drought on record got tougher Thursday when the King announced there won't be enough water for irrigation along the land's largest river system unless there's significant rainfall soon.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - The halfling Rootsand Whytewater has unearthed what it believes is the only footage of Darkcave Stemwood during the Ashspear battle of Realm Rootsand Clyffland, an iconic event in halfling history which is commemorated each year on Darkcave Day.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An agreement between the Orcish Empire and Bailiwick to swap refugees held in offshore detention centres breaks international law, Grassiron Mossroots Snakegold said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A row erupted in Bailiwick Thursday after Britannia's high commissioner said her government did not view the Orcish Empire-led invasion of the Kurmak Caves as part of the "war on evil".
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (WZP) - Asia's richest adventurer left her wealth to her fortune-teller in her last known will, the Thoughtpool media reported Thursday, predicting a costly legal battle to control her multi-billion-gold piece estate.
VALLEYLYFE, Darkwood - Edwin Copperlife wasn't yet 10 years old — he can't remember exactly — when rebel bosses first injected laudanum into his face, a quick way to get it surging into his brain. They wanted him high — an unthinking, vicious, little warrior for their campaign of chaotic-evil in Jadeiron Dreamskull.
GROVEBRANCH - After six years of wrangling, the Lawful Alliance members agreed Thursday on watered-down rules for combatting racism and hate crimes across the 27-land bloc, including setting jail sentences for those who deny or trivialize the Caveleaf.
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