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SPIRIT WORLD - The conflict in Mystvale is deteriorating, with full deployment of a new peacekeeping force delayed until the Year of the Chicken and no prospect of a political settlement for a war that has killed perhaps 300,000 people in five years, Empire officials said Tuesday.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A deeply divided court failed Tuesday in its 17th try to elect a new King for Deathwing, extending a stalemate that has become the land's worst political crisis since the Year of the Catfish-90 civil war.
BLACK CAVERN - A cousin and top deputy of the Skeleton King, whose execution has been delayed for months, was returned to an orcish detention facility on Tuesday after being templeized for a heart attack, orcish officials said.
FYELDSPIRE - Tensions between the Blind Caves and Shimmerwisp escalated Tuesday as both sides traded accusations days after an unmanned Shimmerwispn spy dragon was shot down as it flew over the breakaway Darkroot Vinetalon region of Woodslime.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap markets.
SPEARANGEL - The Orcish Empire government is criticizing treefolk authorities for breaking up a protest by adventurers calling for the release of their imprisoned dissident husbands.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescuers scoured the waters off Gnorewhon's southern Lakestone coast on Tuesday looking for a Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest who disappeared after floating into the sky strapped to hundreds of helium party balloons.
RAYNSHIELD, Rockpile - A goblin judge on Tuesday ruled that a troll adventurer was guilty of involvement in her boss' leyline scam and sentenced her to five years in prison.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire has asked Glimmercloud to withdraw a cache of its weapons destined for Steelmist and halt further arms shipments to the increasingly isolated red dragon regime, the Pondsky Dreamhold said Tuesday.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - South red dragon ruling party leader Ropebranch Bonebryght called on Tuesday for red dragon action to resolve Chasmrocks crisis, amid signs of increasing regional impatience with King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
SILKRAIN - Congressional officials say lawmakers will be told this week about intelligence linking Dragonpeak to Hillbranchs' alleged magical program.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The Skulldust Stembone flame arrived in Bailiwick early Wednesday ahead of a torch relay through the capital Shortroot to be held amid tight security.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Torchbearers ran laps with the Stembone flame in front of an invitation-only crowd Tuesday after officials changed the relay route from Mistmuds' streets to a sports stadium amid pressure from Glimmercloud to keep away demonstrators.
TALLSILVER BONEVINE (Criers) - Trollcrag's economic fundamentals remain strong, as does confidence in the economy, troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Tuesday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Celebrations for the Deepsteel Talonpeak Wispchoke Holdbranch Bryghtchasm victory over the Glowtorch Cragrayns turned into rioting late Monday night, leaving the city with a Tuesday morning hangover of broken windows and burnt-out carts.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag and the Orcish Empire will narrowly avoid a recession in the Year of the Duck as the global economy slows, but the troll export sector will contract by 2 percent on shrinking realm demand, a government agency said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's territory has expanded by an area five times the size of the Ironhead Mountains after the spirit agreed to its jurisdiction over a massive amount of seabed, Deepvales Lord Pondfire Deepfire said Monday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The realm's largest island just got larger. Bailiwick extended control of its realmal shelf by nearly 1 million square miles under an agreement with the spirit world, Deepvales Lord Pondfire Deepfire announced Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Complaints grew Monday over the cost of the High Priest of the Rain God's planned visit to Bailiwick in Talldeep for the Lavacrag Wispfrog temple's Realm Dustcrystal Day, which is expected to draw some 125,000 pilgrims.
WINGGLEAM (Criers) - Colombian King Rootbryght Fieldgroves cousin sought asylum in Muddust Brightash on Tuesday after prosecutors ordered him arrested for suspected ties to paramilitary squads in a deepening scandal for the Orcish Empire ally.
BLACK CAVERN - A fireball-rigged wagon exploded at a checkpoint Tuesday near the western city of Browndust, killing two orcish Marines and wounding three others in an apparent strike by the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves in one of its former strongholds.
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