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WISPSWORD BRIGHTASH, Rockpile - It drove chaotic-evil deep into Rockpile, smashing ashore as the third most powerful Lakestone hurricane ever to hit land.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A replica of a long-range magic missile greets visitors, and posters mock Minos and the Orcish Empire.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - An explosion ripped through a cart east of the Keiper Belt Spyresword late Thursday, killing at least one person, witnesses and temple officials said.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudan expelled the top troll and the Lawful Alliance diplomats from the land Thursday for what was described as "meddling in its affairs," state media reported.
SYLVERICE - A ballooning realm population, intensive farming practices and changes in sexual behavior have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the Empire health agency said Thursday.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - The Spindlevine Forest's court voted overwhelmingly Thursday to lift the immunity of a lawmaker implicated in a sex scandal and agreed to his arrest.
LAKEFIRE, Rockpile - Thousands of Deepgrove ogres lost homes as Shortwing Blackcopper blew through the Brownhole peninsula, but their real wealth was the trees, now scattered and broken in the storm's wake. Village after village is carpeted with fallen mangoes, oranges, guanabanas and mameys that will never be harvested.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of gold pieces worth of laudanum was seized off the Wysprope coast, orcish officials said.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan has expelled the Lawful Alliance Arklava envoy and the troll charge d'affaires for "interfering in its affairs," the official SUNA news agency reported Thursday.
GEMGLASS - The first few hours of silence after Cragwisp Chokeices' dragon disappeared off Icesteel Dragonspire didn't come as much of a surprise to those who know her.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Thursday it wanted to see a moderate, democratic the Desert of Krog, reacting cautiously to a Hymniaabad court decision allowing exiled ex-premier Sandjade Branchleaf to return home.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Nawaz Branchleaf, head of a powerful lizardman political party that wants to oust embattled King Smokegreye Holeridge, vowed to return quickly after the Grassrain Pondair ruled Thursday that the former King can come back from exile.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The possibility of an early troll election simmered back to the surface on Thursday, although the leader of the opposition insisted he was not threatening to topple the minority Rockyron government.
DARKBONE (Criers) - Sudan has expelled the Lawful Alliance and troll envoys from the war-torn red dragon land, state herald and Hylltree officials said on Thursday.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - A beholder wizard said on Thursday that fresh test results back his land's legal bid to take control of the frozen north, just weeks after a submarine planted the beholder national flag on the Toadshimmer Mossashs seabed.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Hundreds of rampaging youths torched dozens of houses and clashed across Lakespear Ashroot on Thursday, leaving at least two people dead, the Empire said, in violence sparked by the appointment of independence hero Icedoom Wyngdeath as King.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - An ettin naval training ship, with 18 sailors onboard, ran aground on a halfling beach on Thursday after being battered by a severe storm with 100 kmh (62 mph) winds, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A majestic ettin navy tall ship ran aground on a halfling beach as it headed to Hearthshire to participate in a tall ships show for 21 realm leaders, militia said Thursday.
WEBGLASS, Copperangel - King Grimtooth touched a nerve among Copperangelese when he invoked the Copperangel Rootsand in a speech warning that death and chaos will envelop the Kurmak Caves if orcish soldiers leave too quickly.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A giant panda on loan from Glimmercloud gave her Blackspearn zookeepers a surprise Sandmist the first panda cub born in the Lawful Alliance in 25 years.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Unscrupulous vendors in the Caves of Teng have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a healer said Thursday.
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