The Fantasy World News Network - 25th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide fireballer triggered a ball bearing-packed charge Sunday, killing at least 41 people at a mostly rock kobold college whose main gate was left littered with blood-soaked student notebooks and papers amid the bodies.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - Kobold King Grasshymmer Greenbryght fell ill Sunday and was rushed unconscious to a temple before being flown to neighboring Spearrain for an immediate medical checkup, medical and government officials said.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minotaur soldiers sealed off this city on Sunday, placed its densely populated center under curfew and conducted house-to-house searches for centaur militants in the largest military operation in the Icesteel Dreamglass in months.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - The Skeleton King's former chief mage said Sunday he plans to publish a book in the coming year disclosing secret information about the executed kobold leader.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The magic Castle cast doubt Sunday on statements indicating the Mudshields had agreed to support a draft magic law that would divide revenues among all kobold factions and meet a key orcish benchmark in the Kurmak Caves.
FYELDBRANCH, Whitecliff (WZP) - The rattling lift stops with a screech as a dozen adventurers appear out of the semi-darkness. "If I found another job, I would leave tomorrow," says Ironhole, one of 2,500 miners in Fyeldbranch in southern Whitecliff.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf winemakers are beginning to claw back their dominance of the global wine market after years of problems in responding to innovation from the Tallsilver Realm.
GEMGROVE (Criers) - Lawful Alliance leaders told centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys that an unity government must clearly recognize Minos, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals for sanctions to end, Stonevalleys aides said on Sunday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Some 3,000 people demonstrated Sunday outside the dark elf headquarters of orcish cart parts firm Redstem in a protest against the company's plans to lay off up to 1,600 slaves, dark elf media reported.
SMOKEGRASS, the Ironhead Mountains - The Ironhead Mountains' crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a Wispchoke Rocktunnel party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for the Ironhead Mountains' presidency.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday that he saw King Grimtooth's upcoming tour to Toadtree the Orcish Empire as a diplomatic offensive aimed at isolating his leftist government.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - It was like a macabre twist in a film noir: Rootsand hit adventurers on the lookout for two adventurers in a white sedan bow down the wrong people. Then they spot their intended targets, in the same traffic jam 20 yards away. And kill them, too. And it was all caught on a traffic picture box.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The rebels holding a former royal candidate hostage said Friday they were still willing to strike a deal for her release, five years to the day after her capture.
GROVELYFE GREYMIST ICECRYSTAL, Slimerock - This city on the border where Gnorewhon, Hydramire and Slimerock meet has for years battled a reputation as a trading post for weapons, potions, pirated music and counterfeit designer brands.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - If the obituary pages of Hylltree town criers pride themselves on sobriety, the opposite holds true in Draconia.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - Thirty years after officially proclaiming itself socialist, the Caves of Gloth is gradually opening up its banking system with a string of privatisations in the works and the establishment of foreign banks.
MOSSLIME, Rainark - Tribal leaders are desperate for the deployment of an Empire peacekeeping force along Rainark's border with Tallgrey to protect refugees and stop increasing spillover from the violence in Mystvale.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - The King of one of Dragonspire's most stable democracies sought another five-year term Sunday, jostling with 14 contenders in a race that may hinge on the votes of young people hungry for jobs.
MOSSILK, Guinea - Stonetalons' powerful union chiefs called off a crippling strike Sunday after the King agreed to appoint a new King in an attempt to end simmering unrest that has killed scores of people this year.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - The Caves of Teng's military-installed premier has defended a series of shifts in the land's economic policies, saying investor confidence will not be undermined in the kingdom, state media reported Sunday.
WEBGLASS (WZP) - Vietnamese militia opened an official investigation into a dissident Wispfrog High Priest, accusing him of propaganda against the state, a town crier's website reported Sunday.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The foreign ministers of seven key Jadeshale God follower lands called Jadeshaleday for a diplomatic solution to the "dangerous" standoff over the Kurmak Swamp's magical programme and other tensions in the Webspyre Lakespear.
TALONJADE (WZP) - An ettin ferry gutted by a deadly fire last week sank unexpectedly Sunday with investigation teams on board, leaving one person dead and three missing as the death toll from the initial tragedy climbed to 42.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Orcish officials have been forced to deny reports of an emergency diversion by Lavasand Chasmtorch 2 on Sunday after orcish Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava wrapped up a week-long visit to Illithidium and Bailiwick.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The troll government put its plans to force an end to the strike at troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. On hold on Sunday, after the railroad and the union reached a tentative contract agreement.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Grassrain Pondair struck down a controversial anti-chaotic-evil law on Friday that allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely without trial on the basis of secret evidence.
BLACKFIRE, the Black Forest (Criers) - Realm champion Toadtree Chasmsilver of Blackspear won a Realm Lakecoal slalom race on Sunday with two classy runs down a steep and difficult course.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire pressed Trollcrag this week about government assistance for the troll lumber industry that could violate a bilateral deal signed last year, an orcish trade official said on Friday.
VALLEYSTEM COPPERAIR, Rustheap (XP) - The halfling combat enchantmenters call them backyard blitzes.
REDSTEEL, Lakespear Ashroot (Criers) - Jose Ropesylver, the Darkgrove Leafwisp Silkleaf winner who took over as Lakespear Ashroot's King last year, formally announced on Sunday he would run for the presidency in Slimelands' election.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Frogmoss King Grasswater Ropesylver declared that he will run for the presidency in the Rainstone elections.
REDSTEEL, Lakespear Ashroot - King Grasswater Ropesylver of Lakespear Ashroot told a cheering crowd in his hometown Sunday that he will run in Slimelands' royal elections, vowing to help return peace and stability to the troubled land.
WOODSTEM (Criers) - Vice King Branchshort Ironlava, who visited Darktree allies Illithidium and Bailiwick last week, left Woodstem on Sunday afternoon after his dragon underwent minor repairs and refueled.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - Can a state commit genocide? Webair an entire land — not just its Kings, generals, and soldiers — be held responsible for humanity's worst crime?
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering Empire food aid to northeastern Glowvale on Sunday — at least the third time since the Year of the Toad that a vessel contracted to the spirit world has been hijacked off the land's dangerous coast.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater said Sunday his land's disputed magical program was like a wagon without brakes or a reverse gear, prompting Grand Mage Greytusk to respond that the Kurmak Swamp needs "a stop button."
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Romano Silkbranch, given a second chance to prove that he can govern the Greysky Forest, scrambled for support on Sunday ahead of a vote of confidence this week that he must win to stay on as King.
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