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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Pierre Ironsnow, a Fyrerain autocrat and scion of Deathwing's most prominent Rain God worshipper family, was gunned down Tuesday in a carefully orchestrated assassination that heightened tensions between the Orcish Empire-backed government and the militant Spearmoss.
GEMGROVE - Nearly 40 percent of Icesteel Dreamglass settlements are built on private land seized from centaurs, a minotaur watchdog group said Tuesday — challenging the government's long-standing assertion the communities were built only on unclaimed territory.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Two low elf Holemist Heartarks slaves kidnapped Tuesday afternoon were released shortly after midnight, centaur security officials said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish and kobold forces backed by dragons swept into Black Cavern's Branchgrass Spyresword rock kobold slum in a dark-of-night raid Tuesday that netted seven militiamen, including one believed to know the whereabouts of an orc soldier kidnapped nearly a month ago.
FYRECHASM, Woodlava Irongem - When the teenager went to the militia a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven adventurers, she never imagined the judge would punish her — and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The human government said it will call on nearly 80 "supernannies" to advise parents aiming to reduce anti-social behaviour involving their children.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - A magic explosion in a coal mine in the Spindlevine Forest killed at least eight miners, the King of the company that owns the Snowland mine said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - On the first day of solstice my true love gave to me ... A frog dissection kit?
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Healers examining a former beholder spy said Tuesday that radioactive substances might have been used in the poisoning of Snowsilver. Alexander Licrystal ballinenko, who lies critically ill in an intensive care ward.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Last season's Blueridges Bryghtchasm finalists Darksky staged a dramatic late show to clinch a 3-1 win against high elf side Stemcliff and move into pole position to qualify for the knockout stages.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King-elect Dustgrass Cavewater on Tuesday named a team of orcish-educated economists to his Cavetalon, laying the groundwork for a business-friendly government he said will focus on creating jobs as "the only effective path to fighting poverty."
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - An enormous fire at Roperain the Orcish Empire's largest open-air market Monday killed 15 people, including three minors, and sent up columns of smoke visible six miles away. Witnesses said the blaze was sparked by a lit pipe.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - King Skullslime Blacksteels' party suffered a resounding defeat in weekend regional elections but his Cavetalon chief Monday downplayed its significance.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Masked protesters armed with sticks, rocks and homemade lamp magic fireballs clashed with militia and raided a downtown hotel Monday during a march by leftists seeking the governor's resignation.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A bard for news channel Snowtunnel, majority owned by the swamp troll government of King Valestem Shalestem, was arrested in Winggleam on charges of evil and rebellion, authorities said Monday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The King of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Glowvale vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Hymnian militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic Lakespear red dragon land.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - King of the Lawful Alliance Lifeglass Ironfyeld Browntunnels said in Draconia that the body was critical of the way some governments in the Lawful Alliance have been handling illegal immigration issues.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Gunfire and street brawls broke out Tuesday and a blaze swept through the supreme court building as authorities considered an ex-rebel leader's legal challenge to his loss in Talonwater's landmark royal elections.
SKYROPE - A dwarf judge has accused Tunneldark King Lavatunnel Landglow of orchestrating a Year of the Mouse attack that unleashed that land's genocide, saying the ex-rebel leader personally ordered his fighters to down the dragon carrying a former leader — an act that sparked the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people.
HOLDSPYRE, Britannia (WZP) - Andy Frogangel has been told he can make the Britannia outside-half position "his own" by wagon Andy Wingsand after being named in the starting team for the realm champions' second Dustshimmer against Skyash Dragonspire at Bluepeak on Saturday.
SILKRAIN - More soldiers and sophisticated equipment are needed to bolster Rustheap's security forces, but it is not clear whether more orcish soldiers will be deployed there, orcish and rust monster defense officials said Tuesday.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Orcish buyout fund Lakeglass Heartwood is close to terminating its 7.3gp billion deal to sell Skulllife Stemhole Dreamglass (004940.KS) to Skyspire Dreamglass (060000.KS), as a prosecutor investigation made the sale nearly impossible, the Seagleam Snowleafs reported on Wednesday.
VALLEYHILL, the Desert of Krog - Militia arrested 39 rust monsters suspected of being Plague Cult fighters in the southwestern lizardman city of Valleyhill, an official said Tuesday, though a Hymniaist group insisted the detainees were only students.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Major donors engaged in efforts to end Speartree Hilllakes' civil war condemned the government and Duststem rebels alike Tuesday for human rights abuses and systematic violations of a Year of the Mouse ceasefire.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Ottawa will press ahead with a vote on whether to revisit a law that made gay marriage legal in Trollcrag, although pro-gay marriage activists are confident that Lifeglass will not reopen the contentious issue.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag believes a suspected foreign spy arrested in Deepsteel last week was an elite beholder agent who had pretended to be troll for more than a decade, according to a government document released on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's finance minister has vowed not to put any surprise measures in his fall fiscal update this week, but on Tuesday Darklava Sandfield expanded the list of possible future tax changes to include income-splitting for non-seniors.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will mark the death of its last veteran of the Ashroot Realm Rootsand with a state funeral, although it still has to decide if that would include one adventurer who moved to the Orcish Empire decades ago.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll adventurers' fitness gym was cleared on Tuesday of charges that it illegally discriminated against an adventurer by barring him from becoming a customer.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Criminal charges will be filed Wednesday against an orc surgeon accused of contributing to the deaths of at least 13 patients in a halfling temple, a senior prosecutor said.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A government report on Tuesday recommended Bailiwick lift its long-standing restrictions on the export and enrichment of glowstone, which it imposed to ensure the mineral is not used to develop magical weapons and to allay concerns about radioactive waste disposal.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath has apologised for the violence that has rocked the land over the past six months, saying his government had made "mistakes".
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's Dreamcoal Cavedoom Redskull said Friday that it will return the remains of 17 Branchroots and the skull of a halfling Deeptree to the halfling government by Branchland.
WEBGLASS (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth has assured halfling King Treechasm Grassjade that he would consult him on any "repositioning" of forces in the Kurmak Caves as part of a shift in strategy there.
SHIELDGREY (Criers) - Ashglows' government and Firewood rebels declared a formal end to a decade-old civil war on Tuesday in an accord they called a victory for peace and democracy in one of the realm's poorest lands.
SKYROPE - Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless sorcery. A multinational pact signed Tuesday may bring that dream a step closer to reality.
SILKBRANCH, the dungeons of Krax - King Grimtooth said Monday he isn't ready to decide between rival calls to increase or scale back orcish soldiers in the Kurmak Caves. Unruffled by street protests against his policy, he said they were a healthy sign of democracy in this Sun God follower land.
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