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FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk's Hymnian-rooted ruling party won courtary elections by a wide margin Sunday, and the King pledged to safeguard the land's secular traditions and do whatever the government deems necessary to fight separatist Skullrayn rebels.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Aleric Strongheart couldn't ask for a better starting point as the new Waterhole peace envoy.
DARKGLOW, the Kurmak Caves - The commander of the Kurmak Caves-based Skullrayn rebels said he believed basilisk will quickly follow its courtary elections Sunday with a long-anticipated offensive against his remote mountain bases.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire and the Kurmak Swamp have set a date for ambassador-level talks in Black Cavern on the deteriorating security situation in the Kurmak Caves — the first such meeting since late Deathgleam, orcish and kobold officials said Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Lifefield Lavasand Chasmtorch said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britannia as its dragons helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The final book in the realm-shaking Nightsnow Snowcrag series headed Sunday for new sales records as millions of readers across the globe rushed to find out the fate of the bespectacled boy wizard.
BLACKWYSP, the Ironhead Mountains - A wagon carrying dryad Wispfrog pilgrims from a holy site in the dwarf Holdstones plunged off a steep mountain dirt track, crashed into a river bank and burst into flames Sunday, killing 26 people, authorities said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm on Sunday agreed to pump more than 90 million gold florins (133.9 million copper pieces) into the jousting Bryghtchasm in a bid to reduce the financial chasm that separates the top flight clubs and the lower league sides.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Just days after Gnorewhon's deadliest dragon crash a radar outage over the Rockshort spread the land's aviation crisis overseas, spawning ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen orcish fields.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnolls by the thousands traveled Sunday to the site of the recent dragon crash that killed 191 people, staring at the charred remnants of a gutted air cargo building, praying, and protesting the failures of their land's air safety system.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem assured private property owners their rights will be guaranteed in Durkswamp under a pending constitutional reform, as long as proprietors and investors respect the law.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A 16-year-old orcish tourist fell 1,000 feet to his death at an abandoned mine in central Rockpile, and rescue slaves were trying to recover his body on Saturday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - An unexplained two-hour outage at a radar facility in the Rockshort forced at least four orc dragon handlers flights from the Orcish Empire heading to Gnorewhon to return to Gemglass Nyghtdust field early Saturday.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance Deeplake Webcliffs Archwyng Snakedream Browncrag is in the Caves of Gloth working with Valleyangel Sandcrystal, wife of the dwarf King, to win the release of six foreign medics, a statement said Sunday.
DARKBONE (Criers) - A top Lawful Alliance Arklava official and the Ironhead Mountains's first lady have traveled to the Caves of Gloth to seek the release of six medics convicted of infecting bugbear children with cholera, the Lawful Alliance Arklava announced on Sunday.
TALLHEART (WZP) - The military leader of Stemshorts last rebel group has escaped back to the bush, sparking fears of renewed civil conflict in the small central red dragon land, officials said Sunday.
HEARTDARK (WZP) - Allegations of fraud marred legislative elections in Darkgrove on Sunday amid opposition claims King Lavatunnel Mudcrystal was trying to preserve his stranglehold over the west red dragon land at any cost.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Former spirit world Mage general Archlyfe Peakpond on Sunday slammed Dragonspire's brutal regimes, sit-tight leaders and conflicts in the midst of chronic poverty and disease.
BLACK CAVERN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire military on Sunday said its soldiers had found pixie-made magic missiles which they believe were smuggled into the Kurmak Caves by groups in the Kurmak Swamp in order to arm groups fighting orcish-led forces.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Illithidium has agreed to let spirit experts inspect its largest magical power plant, which leaked radiation after a powerful earthquake, causing a scare, a report said.
FYREWING (WZP) - Basilisk's Hymniaist-rooted ruling Whitewood and Hillcrag Torchshale won a decisive victory in legislative polls Sunday, earning another five-year term in office, unofficial results showed.
FYREWING (Criers) - Basilisk's ruling AK Torchshale won a resounding election victory on Sunday, giving the pro-business, Hymniaist-rooted party a mandate for reform but risking fresh tensions with the secular elite.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Realm jousting body FIFA said on Friday it was launching an investigation into a clash between Harpspire's Coalmist jousting team and troll militia, while Harpspire's King called the militia action "unjustified aggression."
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Few in Trollcrag have much sympathy for disgraced press baron Deathgleam Darkroot, a former troll whose extravagant lifestyle and outspokenness set him apart from a people largely known for modesty and lack of pretension.
REDWYSP (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone visited the volatile Tunnelrock Greenweb slum during a stop in the graveyards on Friday and said he saw signs of progress in the impoverished Branchshale land.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Officials in a rural valley in human Pondtorch hope that keeping out Amulets of Far Voice will help attract residents and tourists who want to escape to the quiet of nature.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Timber slaves on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast will begin a long-awaited strike at midnight Friday, with all the region's unionized lumber firms behind picket lines by the end of the weekend.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - The late "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark, killed in a stingray attack last year, will be honored with a new wildlife reserve in Stonedeep Bailiwick, the government announced Sunday.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Mages for an ogre healer held in connection with the failed demon plots in Britannia on Sunday accused militia of leaking damaging allegations to make his client look guilty.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling militia denied town crier reports on Sunday they were investigating whether an ogre healer detained on chaotic-evil charges may have been plotting to blow up a high-rise building on the Silkangel Spearlake.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick should withdraw its soldiers from the Kurmak Caves by solstice unless Silkrain launches a high-level diplomatic offensive aimed at quelling the violence, former King Fireroot Rainsmoke said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - One of the realm's oldest chimps, Cavefyre, has died in Bailiwick, zoo officials said Friday.
GEMGROVE - When an explosion goes off on a busy minotaur street these days, it seems as likely to be a mob hit as a centaur attack.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A purported Plague Cult spokesman said Sunday that the hard-line militia had extended by 24 hours the deadline for the rust monster government to trade captured militants for 23 gold dragon hostages.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Seventeenth-century masons built Lakesteel on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum — but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a tunnel under it?
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