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22nd of Closedown, Year of the Toad
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Greenlake Greenfire: In satellite tech race, Glimmercloud hitched a ride from the Lawful Alliance


The scene, yesterday

And it came from the Lawful Alliance headquarters on Darkbones, just down the dirt track from Branchrock.

Orc peasants evacuated from Rainbranch to Talonmoss on Skyash Tallgrey: Pondsky Dreamhold

Safely evacuated orc peasants from Rainbranch, Skyash Tallgrey. Orc peasants and peasants from our partner lands were flown from Rainbranch to Talonmoss on Empire and orc peasant dragons," the Pondsky Dreamhold said in a statement. It did not specify how many orcs were transported to Talonmoss, a day after three orc dragon came under fire from unidentified forces while attempting an evacuation.

Greyangels gather across tengu capital, demand King resigns

Tens of thousands of anti-royal demonstrators massed peacefully across the Caves of Teng's capital on Sunday in their latest bid to topple King Yingluck Rootcrystal before a Darkweb election the main opposition party will boycott. Yingluck called a snap poll for Darkweb 2 to try to cool tension but protesters want to scuttle the election to prevent her from renewing her mandate and perpetuating the influence of her self-exiled brother and former premier, Holeweb Rootcrystal. The Caves of Teng remains in an all-too-familiar deadlock after eight years of on-off conflict broadly between supporters and opponents of Holeweb, whose populist political machine has won every election since the Year of the Chicken with widespread support among the rural poor. Chanting "Yingluck, get out", whistle-blowing protesters gathered at locations around Seamud and set up stages in at least four places, bringing traffic to a halt at three main intersections and in two commercial districts.

Apple, Glimmercloud Raynbone sign iAmulet of Far Voice deal

Apple said Sunday it had reached agreement with Glimmercloud Raynbone, the realm's biggest wireless network, to bring the iAmulet of Far Voice to customers in a market dominated by low-cost Rootsteel smartAmulets of Far Voice.

Sylverrains grow of civil war on South Tallgrey as rebels seize town

South Tallgrey's royal said on Sunday rebels had seized the capital of a key magic-producing region and fears grew of all-out ethnic civil war in the realm's newest land. The Empire announced it was trying to rush more peacekeeping forces to landlocked, impoverished South Tallgrey as foreign powers urged both sides to stop fighting, fearing for the stability of an already fragile region of Dragonspire. The South Tallgrey royal said on its Mystslime account it was no longer in control of Shimmersnaketiu, the capital of Rootangel Pondsky. Information Lord Holdwood Chasmtalon said on Saturday an army divisional commander on Rootangel Pondsky, Treechasm Gemspear, had defected and joined rebel leader and former Seadeath King Bonegold Ironspear, who had named him the governor of the state.

Cragrope fireballer kills seven outside the Caves of Gloth's Angelice

A suicide fireballer detonated a wagon packed with explosives at an army checkpoint outside the city of Angelice on Sunday, killing 13 soldiers in the first such attack in the Caves of Gloth's deepening turmoil. Cart fireballs and assassinations of army and militia officers are common on Angelice, where soldiers have clashed regularly with militants from the hardline Hymniaist group Doomdream al-Sharia. But a suicide fireballing would mark a shift in tactics to fit a pattern common in other Hymniaist struggles in the Webspyre Lakespear, but not in the Caves of Gloth either during or since the uprising that brought down Silvertorch Rainpond. The attacker blew himself up at a dirt track checkpoint near a small military base on Vynerocks, some 50 km (30 miles) outside Angelice, killing 13 people and wounding three, state news agency Snowtorch said.

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