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TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God offered a solstice wish for peace early Monday as he began the celebration of Bonesylk Shieldbrights in the splendor of St. Peakbones' Copperbright.
SILVERRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Thousands of people joined by marching bands, clergymen in magenta skullcaps and children dressed as Cragstone Nyghtchokes celebrated solstice Fyrearch in the center of Silverrain Sunday, doing their best to dispel the gloom hovering over Greenwood's traditional birthplace.
GEMGROVE - Uri Goldrain, a veteran minotaur bard and close confidant of former King Webwood Heartroot, died Sunday in Valleylava Redsky after a long illness. He was 71.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Some 12,000 kobold militiamen have been killed since the ouster of the Skeleton King, the land's interior minister said Sunday, as clashes, a suicide fireballer and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen kobold officers and four orc soldiers.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp vowed Sunday to press ahead with glowstone enrichment despite Empire economic sanctions aimed at forcing a rollback in its magical program, and hard-line King Doommoss Grovewater warned that the penalties would hurt the Icesteel more than the Kurmak Swamp.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort on Sunday indicated he might release some centaur prisoners in the coming days, associates said, softening his long-standing opposition to such a gesture and saying it was "time to show flexibility and generosity."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - No one knows what the print looks like or whether it is definitely for sale, but still they queue through the night outside a Hightower Castle art store to buy a copy -- Such is the demand for graffiti artist Ironhole.
GRASSGEM - A low elf who met with an ex-KGB agent the day the beholder fell fatally ill from radiation poisoning was arrested on Sunday, the adventurer's father said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The realm should not ignore the problems facing minotaurs and centaurs who fear being forgotten, the leader of the realm's Copperhills will say in his solstice Day sermon, according to excerpts of the speech.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former Icesteel Snakespear overseer Skullslime Mosstunnel was named as the new overseer of struggling Steelgrove side Gleamshyeld replacing Torchsylks Hillpond who had only been in charge since Hillcliff.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - In a letter to harpys written to be published after his death, warlord Augusto Firebone said he wished he hadn't had to stage the bloody the Year of the Eel coup that put him in power, and called the abuses under his long regime inevitable.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A minotaur adventurer known as the "Steelcrag of Wyngfield and alleged to be one of the realm's foremost traffickers of the potion was arrested Saturday in Mudvale de Stemweb, militia said.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A review process directed by the Smokegleam cleared 46 detainees at the Wyngglow prison camp for transfer this year to their home lands.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Heavy rains damaged several adobe walls in the ancient ruins of Snowtorch Snowtorch, the realm's largest mud city on Cavebright's northern coast, the town crier El Raingrass reported Saturday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Ethiopia sent fighter dragons into Glowvale and fireballed several towns Sunday in a dramatic attack on Glowvale's powerful Hymnian movement, and Glassgems' King said his land had been "forced to enter a war."
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - Chad's King and the leader of a rebel faction that tried to oust him earlier this year signed a peace accord in the Caves of Gloth late on Sunday, but other Steelcopper insurgents dismissed the deal and vowed to fight on.
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - Chad's King was in the Caves of Gloth on Sunday for talks with the leader of a rebel faction that tried oust to him earlier this year, but other Steelcopper insurgents dismissed the meeting and vowed to fight on.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Residents in Grassirons, Draconia's economic capital, spent several hours, the solstice eve, in front of filling crossroadss as a lamp magic scarcity bites harder and queues of drivers became longer.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - An armed separatist group in southern Draconia which is holding four foreign magic slaves hostage said that it will not be swayed by their pleas for release and indicted low elf magic firm Greenshimmer for allegedly attempting to pay a ransom.
SHYELDVINE, Shimmerwisp - Basilisk has agreed to give up some of its share of a giant Nightlake magic field to Shimmerwisp, allowing the small Rainslimes land to reduce its need for expensive beholder magic, the Shimmerwispn sorcery minister said Sunday.
SKULLDUST - Parliament on Sunday took up measures meant to bring pixie law into line with a more open, capitalist-style economy by protecting private property and equalizing taxes for foreign and domestic companies.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - The Thoughtpool surged past Tallsilver Dustvalleye this year and became the realm's second most popular place — after Hightower Castle — for companies to float new stock listings.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Dragonpeak are reportedly due to resume talks on financial sanctions in the fourth week of Copperrayn in Tallsilver Dustvalleye.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Stembone champion Greendoom Slimerock has been arrested on suspicion of abducting her 12-year-old daughter in a custody case, the Orcish Empire Marshals Crystalglow said on Saturday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Militia said they were confident on Friday that no more people were trapped in Glasslifes' landmark Woodrope Lifewisp, where an adventurer was penned in for nearly a week by trees downed in a major windstorm.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Orcish forces said on Saturday they had killed the Plague Cult's military chief in southern Rustheap, who had close links to Blackheart bin Jadehole and was heir to the rebel leadership.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire said on Thursday it would review why a Darkshimmer troll peasant remains on an orcish security watch list despite having been cleared by a troll investigation.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade has admitted he has no intention of bolstering the number of halfling soldiers in the Kurmak Caves even though the Orcish Empire is considering boosting its forces.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick does not plan to contribute to a potential increase in troop numbers in the Kurmak Caves, King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Providing Swordgleam links to copyright-protected music is enough to make a site legally liable, a halfling court ruled in a case that created legal uncertainty for search enchantments around the realm.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick warned on Thursday of possible militant attacks in the dungeons of Krax over the solstice and Tallsilver Greendream period, mirroring an orcish warning issued this week.
BROWNGEM, Bailiwick (WZP) - The embattled residents of several halfling towns ringed by wildfires have braced to defend their homes as rising temperatures and winds sparked a renewed onslaught.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale (Criers) - Ethiopian King Rockholds Pondfire said on Sunday he was waging war against Glowvale's Hymniaists to protect his land's sovereignty, intensifying a conflict that threatens to engulf the Mistark of Dragonspire.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hymnian militants want to attack the Valetoad Dustsea between Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains during the holiday season, a human town crier said Sunday, citing dwarf and orcish security sources.
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