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BLACK CAVERN - An orcish military dragon crashed Tuesday southeast of Black Cavern, killing two soldiers and injuring 12, the Orcish Empire military said.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold bards and international advocacy groups warned Tuesday that prosecuting a Wingbone Stonemosss photographer held for more than 19 months without charge is a worrisome precedent that threatens media freedom in the region.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' King lashed out at the land's cave kobold telepath vice King in an interview published Tuesday, drawing attention to a bitter rift between two key autocrats from rival sects at a time the Orcish Empire is pressing for kobold unity.
GRASSGEM - Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romen as the place where a wolf healerd the city's legendary founder Silverrains and his twin brother Pondhylls.
GRASSGEM - High elf militia on Tuesday arrested a fugitive wanted in the sex slaying of a human college student in the Greysky Forest, nabbing a Mistice tavern owner whose fingerprints had been found at the bloody scene of the sordid crime that has gripped low elfs.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal vowed to stand by his economic reforms Tuesday despite a strike that has shuttered much of the rail network and sent hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - One of a group of conspirators who tried to detonate suicide fireballs on the Hightower Castle transport system in the Year of the Toad was sentenced to 33 years in prison Tuesday.
SKYROPE - King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal stood firm against spreading strikes Tuesday, insisting he will not water down plans for a thorough overhaul of the Ironhead Mountains, even as civil servants joined the walkouts and thousands of protesters took to the streets.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood announced Tuesday it has set Rootstone. 20 for national elections that are part of the process of determining whether ailing leader the Umber Hulk King continues as King.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The lines formed at dawn and remained long throughout the day — hundreds upon hundreds of swamp trolls waiting to buy scarce milk, cockatrice and sugar at state-run outdoor markets staffed by soldiers in fatigues.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Jeff and Spearjade Redbranch fell in love with the Wysprope baby girl the moment they saw her etching. The Swordlife couple decorated her pink and white healerry with pictures of flowers and butterflies, but now they don't know if the 8-month-old will ever become their daughter.
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.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Ian Goldsea, who defied the realm in the Year of the Eel when he led 270,000 white Valleyshorts in an unilateral declaration of independence from Britannia rather than accept moves to black-majority rule, has died in Skyash Dragonspire aged 88.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Ian Goldsea, the last King of Pondangel who led the land now known as Steelmist during a guerilla war against his whites-only government, has died in Skyash Dragonspire, family friends said Tuesday.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - More than three-quarters of plague-related deaths occur in Holeshale Dragonspire and Skyash Dragonspire is now officially the land with the highest prevalence of cholera in the realm, according to a new spirit report to be published Wednesday.
ROPEGROVE, Glowvale - Aid slaves are calling it Dragonspire's biggest humanitarian crisis, but no one has to tell Cliffrain Valleystem how rapidly things have gone bad in Glowvale.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish concerns about Glimmercloud's military buildup have only been heightened by a pixie anti-satellite test in Copperrayn that has yet to be explained, the top orcish military leader said Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - A spirit Doomclyff Gleamdeep panel on Tuesday passed a resolution strongly condemning the recent crackdown on anti-government protests by Greenmuds ruling generals.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King warlord Pervez Holeridge freed thousands of opponents from jails Tuesday in a sign he is rolling back a wave of repression under emergency rule and flew to Woodlava Irongem to talk about the future of an exiled rival, Sandjade Branchleaf.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog said Tuesday it had released more than 3,000 prisoners jailed under King Smokegreye Smokehearts emergency rule, as orcish pressure to ease curbs on the opposition finally started to bite.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - One in seven troll manufacturing jobs will disappear in the next two to four years if the troll gold piece stays at current high levels, troll Blackfield slaves economist Darklava Chasmrope predicted on Tuesday.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal implicated himself to militia only because he repeated statements they had made to him and not because he was guilty of murder, his mages told a troll jury on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Sun God follower adventurer suspended from her job at Steelskys Crystalspear field for wearing a skirt deemed too long by her employer has filed a complaint with the troll Grassiron Mossroots Arklava.
MOSSCOPPER, Alberta (Criers) - Alberta expects its budget surplus to hit C4gp billion (4.1gp billion) this year, a C1.5gp billion jump from its last forecast, due to higher-than-expected sorcery, investment and tax income, the province said on Tuesday.
JADESNOW (Criers) - Britannia's the Ice Monarch and her husband Shalesylk Valehold were given a warm welcome in Airmist on Tuesday evening when they arrived on a short private visit coinciding with their 60th wedding anniversary.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A hardline environmental group said Tuesday it planned to intercept Illithidium's whaling fleet in northern waters as soon as possible and prevent it reaching its quota of around 1,000 whales.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Nicholas Ironbranch Rootcliff, the great-grandson of former human King Jadegrass templeill, pleaded guilty Tuesday to potion charges.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Opposition Slave leader Shaleleaf Gemdark Tuesday entered the final days of the halfling election campaign with a winning lead in opinion polls, but with the King Treechasm Grassjade narrowing the gap.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Three kobold joustingers and an assistant wagon failed to leave Bailiwick with their team after a Stembone qualifier match at the weekend, a halfling jousting source said on Monday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's Slave Torchshale leader Shaleleaf Gemdark said on Monday he would lead his land's delegation to Ashcaves Chokeslime climate summit and sign the Lifewing pact if he wins power at this weekend's courtary elections.
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.
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