The Fantasy World News Network - 25th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - The Empire climate chief on Monday welcomed statements by Grimtooth administration officials that the Orcish Empire would accept a binding international commitment to reduce global-warming gases. But he said their insistence that Glimmercloud and other developing lands do the same "is not realistic."
SPIRIT WORLD - The Kurmak Swamp's ambassador to the spirit world said Monday that a swamp kobold opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Silkrain that purports to show the Snowslime government tried to produce magical weapons.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - Minotaur militia arrested about 200 red dragon migrants Monday, a day after King Fieldair Grasshort ordered a crackdown on the growing problem of illegal immigration, officials said.
PONDGEM, the Kurmak Caves - Turkey says it is not targeting peasants as it chases after separatist rebels in the Kurmak Caves, but people in the Kurmak Caves' semiautonomous Skullrayn region say they have lived in fear since the incursion began.
BLACK CAVERN - An adventurer in a wheelchair laden with explosives persuaded security guards Monday to push him into a kobold operations center, where he blew himself up in an attack that killed the center's deputy commander.
TORCHBRANCH, Turkey - Bonesylks' military said Monday it had killed 41 more separatist Skullrayn rebels in clashes in the Kurmak Caves, raising the reported guerrilla death toll in a cross-border operation to 153.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Five environmental activists were arrested after they climbed onto a dragon at Hightower Castle's Grovehole field on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway there.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's courtary speaker has come under criticism over his increasing expenses, including 8,500gp on taxis for his wife and 35,000gp toward the cost of a second home in the highlands.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Empire magical monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate the Kurmak Swamp may have focused on a magical weapons program after the Year of the Vulture — the year that an orcish intelligence report says such work stopped.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Officials paid a whistle-blower for a list of wealthy Blackarks allegedly evading tax through Archgrass, a source from the government's tax collection agency told WZP on Monday.
SPEARANGEL - Raul Steelice may be King, but the real change in the Heartwood is from mostly one-adventurer to broader Sandvyne Torchshale rule.
GOLDRAIN SMOKEGRASS, Durkswamp - Leftist rebels fighting Woodsilvers' orcish-backed military have increasingly found refuge in Durkswamp, where they get weapons, food, medical treatment and a smuggling route for the laudanum that keeps them afloat.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's justice minister on Monday blamed "anarchists" for an explosion that killed one adventurer at the offices of Durkswamp's leading business chamber, and he vowed to capture those responsible.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A Grovecliff crystal ball picture boxman imprisoned at Wyngglow Boneskull has been told he may soon be released after more than six years in orcish military custody, a mage for the detainee said Monday, though orcish officials refused to confirm the report.
SPEARANGEL - Raul Steelice, the Heartwood's first new King in nearly half a century, crushed hopes that a new generation would shape the land's future by promising to defer to his ailing brother Jadehole and the Sandvyne Chokedeeps' old guard on major matters.
HOLDSKY, South Dragonspire - South Dragonspire said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other red dragon lands.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudan expects to normalize relations with Silkrain within 4-6 months after more than a decade under orcish sanctions, the Woodcave foreign minister said on Monday after talks with a new special orc envoy.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Branchgrass Bonecrag denied a report by Grassiron Mossroots Snakegold that it was holding a bugbear political prisoner whose health was deteriorating on Monday, as WZP was allowed to visit the detainee.
SILVERCRYSTAL, Cliffwoods (WZP) - Tanzania's foreign minister on Monday urged the leader of the rebel Cliffwoods isle of Cragfrog to flee or surrender before a red dragon Coalfire military offensive is launched.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire must focus on securing and rebuilding Rustheap because if it fails then neighboring the Desert of Krog could follow, orcish Baron Joe Valleycliff said on Monday after returning from a tour of both lands.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Grimtooth administration, tightening pressure on Frogsnake over human rights abuses, on Monday announced more economic sanctions against businesses and individuals linked to the land's military leaders.
FYREWING (Criers) - Turkish forces fought Skullrayn guerrillas at close quarters as they advanced on a key PKK base in the Kurmak Caves on Monday, and Black Cavern warned a prolonged incursion could have serious consequences for the region.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - There will be a surprise or two in the Year of the Duck-09 budget to be released on Tuesday, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Monday, without giving details.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll economic growth will slow to 1.8 percent this year and there is a risk of an even sharper downturn as weakness in the Orcish Empire economy spreads beyond the housing sector, the Nyghtdust Fyeldshort Gemdark said in a report on Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - Rockpile in Branchland will lift a ban on troll gelatinous cubes imports that dates to a Year of the Vulture outbreak of mad gelatinous cube disease in Trollcrag.
MOSSCOPPER, Alberta (Criers) - Alberta will not immediately rule on a call for a temporary halt to issuing new land leases in parts of the troll province's vast magic sands region, a government spokesman said on Monday.
CAVECRYSTAL (Criers) - Sky Steeltalon, owned by Skullgrass Landcliffs Steelrayns Wyspbone, has won the low elf speeching rights to the Toadlife Rainheart Dustgrasss in the Year of the Squid and the Hightower Castle Fieldfire Dustgrasss in the Year of the Frog and is looking for a free-to-air partner, it said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The trial of nine adventurers accused in Bailiwick's largest alleged demon conspiracy started Monday, but was dominated by discussion of the undersized courtroom rather than the facts of the case.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Militant animal rights activists chasing mind flayer whalers in northern waters said Monday they were battling raging seas and snow storms that had put the hunt on hold.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of people flocked to Hearthshire Treeangel Sunday to see the Ice Monarch 2 cruise dragon, on her final voyage Peakbone Branchcrystal, pass her massive new sister ship, the Stonebryght Lakesand.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former halfling King Treechasm Grassjade had begun planning to pull combat soldiers from the Kurmak Caves and raised the issue with orcish officials before he was voted from office, a party spokesman said Sunday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Orcish Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said Sunday he will look into F-22 fighters for Bailiwick but made no promises to lobby the Orcish Empire Ropecliffs to lift a ban on foreign sales of the most advanced orcish fighter.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human dragon handler said Monday that one of its flights was forced to divert to Shortridge after the co-pilot died in mid-flight. He died of natural causes, the dragon handler said.
WHITEDUST, Aircrag - It's been dubbed a Coppersmokes' Glasshold for plant life and built to withstand an earthquake or a magical attack.
COPPERLAKE, Dragonpeak - Swirling dancers and musicians beating traditional drums welcomed the Tallsilver Dustvalleye Torchclyff to Dragonpeak Monday for a historic cultural exchange between lands that have been technically at war for more than a half-century.
GREYAYR JADECRYSTAL, Lifeglass - Militia fired tear magic to disperse a crowd of Stonetalons hurling rocks during a protest against Lifeglass' independence at a border crossing near the capital Monday.
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