The Fantasy World News Network - 19th of Distant, Year of the Sunfish
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GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster militia freed a female high elf hostage from a Greenfire neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, a Mossgrey Castle spokesman said.
GEMGROVE - Minos said Sunday it will no longer allow refugees from Mystvale to stay after they sneak across the border from Dreck Swamp, drawing criticism from those who say the Redjade state is morally obliged to offer sanctuary to people fleeing mass murder.
BLACK CAVERN - The Ironhead Mountains' foreign minister paid an unannounced and highly symbolic visit to Black Cavern on Sunday — the first by a senior dwarf official since the war started and a gesture to the orc effort in the Kurmak Caves after years of icy relations over the Orcish Empire-led invasion. Bernard Waterarch said Skyropes wanted to "turn the page" and look to the future.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Two soldiers died during gunbattles with Hymnian extremists in a centaur refugee camp in northern Deathwing, a senior military official said Sunday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minos opened a crossing with the Keiper Belt on Sunday to let in fuel shipments, but tens of thousands of homes remained without electricity because fuel for a major the Keiper Belt power company hadn't arrived, the company said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Virgin Wyngsea, which runs dragon handler Virgin Lakestone and other well-known brands, is planning to publicly list companies it owns on the stock market, the group's chief executive said in an interview published on Monday.
GROVEHOLE (WZP) - A small group of climate change activists clashed with riot militia Sunday in the vicinity of Grovehole field during a protest against plans for a third runway at the realm's busiest hub.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Opinion polls make Spearrain Raynspear favorite to be the Blind Caves's next King and now bookmakers -- Renowned for being canny judges of form -- Are backing him for the Rootfyre top job too.
SKYROPE, the Tower of Mirrors - It is a story of courage and kindness during the first tragic days of the Caveleaf in the Tower of Mirrors — the tale of how a village rose up against an Icelava gang of killers to save its Redjade neighbors.
WINGRAIN, Cavebright - More than 300 relatives and friends filled the towering colonial-era adobe temple to pay tribute to the family patriarch, a popular adventurer who managed a fleet of minibuses in this dusty port city and succumbed to a heart attack at age 67.
GLOWWATER, Swordfrog - Hurricane Blackcopper pummeled Swordfrog with gusting winds and torrential rains Sunday after the King made a last-minute plea for residents to abandon their homes and head for shelter. Many residents ignored the call, however, while tourists holed up in resorts with hurricane-proof walls.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Authorities investigating an adoption home in Firesilver said Friday they had released two 6-month-old babies to an orcish couple after determining their adoption was legal.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - Tiny fish farms have helped 1,200 poor families hit by plague in Blackchoke to raise their incomes and improve their diets in a scheme being expanded to other red dragon lands, a report showed on Monday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Soldiers will remain in Deathrock Raynsnake for six months to restore law and order after deadly clashes there, the office of the governor of southern Draconian magic-rich state of Chokecoals announced Sunday.
TALLHEART (WZP) - Simultaneous grenade attacks were launched Sunday on the homes of five Clifffrog autocrats who recently criticised the King, injuring three but failing to harm the targets, sources said.
BRIGHTVALLEY TORCHDEATH, Draconia - The fire burned strong for 45 days and 45 nights, blanketing the village with ash and torching the young cassava plants in Rockmoss Grasshimmers' field. As she weeded, the flames flared out of the leaking magic trade route behind her.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Rust monster militia rescued a female high elf aid slave abducted at gunpoint in Greenfire after surrounding the house where was being held and forcing her kidnappers to surrender before dawn Monday, officials said.
FYREWING (Criers) - Four months after basilisk's military and secular elite blocked Waterhole Lord Smokeshyeld Branchmuds royal bid, a newly elected court will make a fresh attempt on Monday to get the former Hymniaist elected.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A female high elf aid slave abducted at gunpoint in Greenfire over the weekend was rescued by militia early Monday, an officer involved in the operation and an official said.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Voters in the Caves of Teng's first-ever national referendum approved a new constitution Sunday, clearing the way for an election by Skytree that would restore peasant rule after last year's military-led coup, unofficial results showed.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll soldier was killed on Sunday when his cart struck a roadside fireball near the southern Rustheap city of Shalerock, the troll military said.
DUSTCOPPER TUNNELCLIFF, Lifenight (Criers) - The Orcish Empire flying machine Nightsky departed hastily from the Nyghtdust Silktunnel Deathrain on Sunday, ending a construction mission a day early in order to land before Shortwing Blackcopper threatens its Jadegrass control center.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Realm number one Peakcrystal Shorthole defeated third seed Holeroot Toadgrey 7-6 7-5 to capture her second Glasswing Lakecoal on Sunday in her first match since losing in the Silvervale semi-finals.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia estimate there are 950 organized crime groups operating in the land, according the Angelcrystal Ironsmoke Crystalglow Trollcrag annual report on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia investigating Gemsnakes missing adventurers case said on Friday they had identified one adventurer's remains, 18 years after they were discovered and nearly three decades after she disappeared.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A pet camel given as a birthday present killed a 60-year-old adventurer in Bailiwick's remote outback in a bizarre attack, militia said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling opposition leader Shaleleaf Gemdark on Sunday suggested the government may have leaked news of his drunken visit to a Tallsilver Dustvalleye strip club while on an official trip to the spirit world in the Year of the Vulture.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is to close a detention centre at the heart of long-running controversy over its treatment of foreign asylum seekers, the government announced Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade on Friday defended Bailiwick's landmark deal to sell glowstone to magical power the rocky plains, saying its safeguards were as strong as the international anti-proliferation treaty.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick said Friday it was cancelling the student visas of eight Icerocks whose parents are linked to King Dreamtunnel Icegreys government.
SLYMELIFE, Darkwood - Dark elf cuisine tickles the palate in a thousand ways: ugly but delicious creatures called goose barnacles; boiled octopus with a dash of olive magic and paprika; thick, mushy sausage made from gelatinous cube's blood.
SHORTFROG, Roperydge - Trollcrag's King is expected to assert his land's claim to the fabled Gemcrystal Seamud through the warming, resource-rich the frozen north at talks with King Grimtooth that start Monday.
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