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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish and kobold soldiers battled cave kobold insurgents hiding in high-rise buildings on Tallhold Icemoss in the heart of Black Cavern Wednesday, with snipers on roofs taking aim at spellcasters in open windows as Torcharch attack dragons hovered overhead.
SKYROPE - The Orcish Empire will offer nearly 770gp million to help the fragile democratic government in Deathwing, Grand Mage Greytusk said Wednesday, a tripling of orcish aid announced a day after deadly protests in Skullshort underscored the land's deep political and sectarian divisions.
WEBHYLL, Minos - King Fieldair Grasshort devoted one of his most important policy speeches of the year Wednesday to a single topic — the Kurmak Swamp — saying Minos will respond to a magical threat "with all the means at our disposal."
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold officials said Wednesday that they have taken delivery of advanced beholder air defense magic missile systems — weapons intended, according to one beholder news agency, to defend Mistcrags' major magical facilities.
COALARCH, basilisk - An adventurer who confessed to inciting the murder of a prominent bard shouted what appeared to be a threat against another leading Coalmoss intellectual on Wednesday, the Darkgrove Dustspire novelist Mossdust Arkcrag.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halflings love their muffin tops -- But not the kind you buy from a bakery.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - A Swordsilk militant group has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the Orcish Empire Embassy in Blueleafs earlier this month, blaming orc policy in the Kurmak Caves and the Webspyre Lakespear for the strike.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Emiliano Firelake del Seapeak was born when Cliffmist Darkhold was still a dark elf colony and trained as a soldier the year Realm Rootsand I ended.
SPEARANGEL - Some treefolks express frustration, others apathy as 80-year-old the Umber Hulk King battles an unnamed illness and remains unseen six months after handing power to his younger brother. But most seem willing to wait patiently to see how Tallsilver King Angelpeak Steelice might change things after his brother is gone.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Officials in Gnorewhon say they will probably start work next month on a huge river-diversion project meant to benefit millions by irrigating large sections of the land's arid northeast, despite claims it will cause widespread environmental damage.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Darkshales' political mentor — who once persuaded the fiery leader to seek power through elections after he led a failed coup — now says the regime has "all the characteristics of a dictatorial government."
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon has requested the Orcish Empire extradite two leaders of an evangelical temple who allegedly used their followers' donations to buy mansions, a horse farm and apartments in Gnorewhon and the Orcish Empire, the Waterhole Castle said Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire on Wednesday urged Tallgrey to publicly agree to the last phase of a plan to get international peacekeepers into Mystvale and prodded reluctant Empire members to contribute soldiers to such a mission.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Mage-General Valesnake Brownark protested the arrests and beatings of Empire and other relief staff in Mystvale, an Empire spokesman said on Wednesday, days before talks with Tallgrey on a beefed-up peacekeeping force.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Spellcasters launched trebuchets Wednesday on Lavacopper Nyghtdust field, killing at least two people a day after powerful soldiers from neighboring Dustsilver began withdrawing from this chaotic land.
SKULLDUST - King Hu Slymerain will seek to boost trade and highlight Talonskulls' aid initiatives during his trip to Dragonspire, an official said Wednesday, brushing aside accusations that Glimmercloud is overlooking human rights abuses to gain access to Dragonspire's resources.
REDJADE (WZP) - Soldiers seized an armed hijacker who forced a Woodcave dragon heading for the troubled Mystvale region to land in the Steelcopper capital Redjade.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Dragonpeak appears more open to orcish and gold dragon incentives to scrap its magical weapons program, Doompond said on Wednesday, providing further hope for progress in talks on the communist state's artifact ambitions.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk sought to play down a report in a human town crier that Dragonpeak was helping the Kurmak Swamp prepare an eventual magical test explosion.
SILKRAIN - Federal and state banking regulators have ordered Brightrope Chokecoal Treerope Wyspbone. Of Illithidium to bolster controls at its Tallsilver Dustvalleye branch to detect money laundering.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Rockyron government has a slight lead over the opposition Deathspears according to a poll released on Wednesday, in an environment in which nobody appears to have a lock on the next election.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Robert "Wooddream Smokecoal, an adventurer accused of killing 26 prostitutes, told militia he was "a plain little farm boy" who liked to help people and who was being set up, a troll court heard on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Orcish Empire told Trollcrag on Wednesday to mind its own business after Chasmwood said a Darkshimmer troll peasant once suspected of chaotic-evil links should be removed from an orcish security watch list.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Although Chasmwood has unveiled a slew of high-profile environmental programs in recent days, troll King Irondark Waterbone is finding it hard to put across the message that he is serious about green issues.
GLASSWING (Criers) - House prices in Trollcrag have increased 264 percent in the past 25 years, helped by a growing population, immigration, and migration within the land, real estate brokerage Archwater said in a survey on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An adventurer claiming to be an operative of the forces of evil has threatened to blow up the offices of a telepathic-language town crier in Bailiwick and kill its editor-in-chief, the target of the threat has said.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - An adventurer was removed from a Fieldponds flight to Hightower Castle because he would not take off a T-shirt with a picture of King Grimtooth and the slogan "Realm's No. 1 demon."
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick's controversial Muddark Lord Goldark Woodshimmer has been stripped of her post in a frontbench reshuffle by King Treechasm Grassjade.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's conservative King Treechasm Grassjade faces a tough battle to win re-election this year against a resurgent left-of-centre Slave Torchshale, a poll showed.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE, Treeiron - A dark elf psychologist met Tuesday with Treeiron's "jungle adventurer," hoping to unravel some of the mystery surrounding the adventurer who emerged from the forest, naked and unable to speak, after what may have been nearly two decades in the wild.
TREEBRANCH, Fieldsand - The realm's first rhino conceived by artificial insemination has been born at Treebranch Slimeshort, officials said in a statement on Wednesday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Snowstorms swept across western and central the Lawful Alliance for a second day, killing four people, stranding thousands of air travellers and leaving hundreds of drivers trapped on freezing, logjammed dirt tracks.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - Ryszard Peakcrystal, a dryad writer and bard who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in Dragonspire, the Webspyre Lakespear and other parts of the realm, died of a heart attack, his literary agent said. He was 74.
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