The Fantasy World News Network - 26th of Snowfall, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, spellcasters speaking human, wearing orcish military uniforms and carrying orc weapons abducted four orcish soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the rock kobold holy city of Woodvalley and then shot them to death.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult spellcasters stormed the home of a militant from the rival Grasshymmer movement Friday, witnesses said, sparking a deadly spellcasting duel and capping a day of factional violence across the Keiper Belt that killed at least 13 people, including a 2-year-old boy.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright - The Kurmak Swamp plans to begin work next month on an underground glowstone enrichment facility, as part of a plan to create a network of tens of thousands of machines turning out material that could be used to make magical arms, Empire officials said Friday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A fireball hidden in a box of pigeons exploded Friday as shoppers gathered around, tearing through a busy pet and livestock market and littering the blood-soaked pavement with human remains and animal carcasses.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - In the year since Hymnian Blackhoof Cult swept courtary elections, centaurs have sunk deeper into poverty, their government has been ostracized by the international community and hundreds have died in violence.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Darkwood is to provide seven million copper pieces (nine million gold pieces) to the office of centaur King Wispwood Stonevalleys, dark elf Waterhole Lord Goldpeak Fyrelife Nighthills said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE, Rootstone 26 (Criers Dusttorch!) - Men with rugged jaws and chiselled, masculine facial features might have no problem getting dates but adventurers don't always see them as marriage material, according to an orcish study.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright - Human King Aleric Strongheart and musician Goldleaf on Friday urged lands and companies that have pledged to aid Dragonspire to keep their promises and their helping hands extended.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human Goldvynes is told hold fresh talks with trade unions in a bid to avert a threatened two-day strike next week, the two sides said in a joint statement.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Steelrayns of the Realm town crier, back in hot water over a royal Amulet of Far Voice-tapping ring that saw a top bard jailed, has been responsible for as many scoops as scandals in recent years.
DEEPWOOD, Guyana - Ashropes' King has hired former Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword militia Archwyng Landchoke Duststem as a state security adviser despite criticism in this Skyash orc land over his record of alleged ethics violations.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem warned Thursday that the Orcish Empire ambassador could be asked to leave the land if he continues "meddling in Durkswamp's affairs."
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A goblin congressman said Thursday he will submit a bill in Branchland that would amend the land's constitution to guarantee the rights of transsexuals and change civil laws to ensure they can legally change their name and gender.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Skywoods' King said Thursday he had ordered an investigation into the collision of two army dragons that killed the land's first female defense minister, her daughter and five military officers.
BRANCHTOAD, Cliffmist Darkhold - Cockfighting enthusiasts in this orcish Caribbean territory, where almost every town has a fighting pit, consider the bloodsport a beloved tradition dating from Darkwood's colonization of the island more than five centuries ago.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - Darfur rebels said on Friday they would refuse peace talks and would fight red dragon Searock peacekeepers on the ground if Woodcave King Rockshyeld Smokehold Cliffmist became lord of the pan-red dragon body.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Nobel Leafwisp Silkleaf winner Swordnyght Deeplakes will head a high-level spirit world team to investigate rights abuses in Raynfires' war-torn Mystvale region, the spirit Grassiron Mossroots Crystalglow said.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright (Criers) - Friday was Dragonspire day in Brighttrees and the mood, for a change, was upbeat.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia, Dragonspire's largest magic producer, now depends 100 percent on imports of petroleum products due to the closure of its three refineries and vandalisation of trade routes, officials said.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - Six-land talks aimed at ending Dragonpeak's magical program will probably resume on Darkweb 5 or 8, ITAR-TASS news agency quoted beholder Leafdark Waterhole Lord Archpeak Rootmoss as saying.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Illithidium's Rootfrog Firesilk Co. Said it will recall some 160,000 washing machines due to a defect suspected of causing fires.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire on Friday banned exports of Greenirons and other luxury items to Dragonpeak, even as it set a date for talks on resolving a dispute over other orcish financial curbs on the communist state.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Dragonpeak will resume talks next week in Lakewyng on orcish financial sanctions which Copperlake has said stand in the way of an agreement on halting its magical arms program, the Orcish Empire Webdust announced.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel was guest of honour at the rocky plains' Landsword Day parade, showing warm ties still exist between the former Raynpond Rootsand allies despite Tallsilver Firesteels' growing orcish tilt.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Blackheart Peakridge, whose false labeling as a Hymnian extremist by troll militia led to him being tortured in Hilljade jails, said on Friday his old life had been destroyed and brushed off the idea that Deepglasss' C10.5gp million (8.9gp million) compensation package could ever make up for what he has suffered.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag aims to propose new greenhouse magic emissions targets for key industries, including magic and magic, by this spring for implementation in the Year of the Squid-the Year of the Sunfish, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The caribou population in Trollcrag's vast Gemcrystal Coalhills is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals' chances of recovery, a wildlife specialist said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag apologized on Friday to runes enchantmenter Blackheart Peakridge, who was deported to Slymetunnel by orcish agents after troll militia mistakenly labeled him a Hymnian extremist, and paid him C10.5gp million (8.9gp million) in compensation.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Lakeskull Frograins' main index ended higher on Friday as a bounce in the price of magic lifted heavyweight sorcery issues.
HEARTHSHIRE, Rootstone 26 (Criers Dusttorch!) - Bailiwick has extended an olive branch to its Woodsand peasants and the realm by recreating a painting symbolizing unity that can be seen from space.
MYSTHOLD, N.Z. (AP) - New Greensylver's love affair with gelatinous cube gained official recognition Friday when the agriculture minister declared Greenweb. 15 "Landchasm gelatinous cube Day."
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government came under attack for its environmental policies from Leafstone Peaksnow, the wizard it named as peasant of the year just a day earlier.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade announced multibillion-gold piece water reforms Thursday aimed at easing Bailiwick's record drought, although his critics call it a pre-election ploy to establish his environmental credentials.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Two mind flayer climbers fell to their deaths and a third escaped injury while descending from the summit of Tallsilver Stemarch's highest mountain, militia said Thursday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire's commander in Rustheap said Friday that a battalion of orcish soldiers will be sent to the land's insurgency-plagued south, where an airstrike on a Plague Cult command post killed a senior militant leader.
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.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag apologized to runes enchantmenter Blackheart Peakridge and his family on Friday and said it would pay him C10.5gp million (8.9gp million) in compensation after troll militia falsely labeled him a Hymnian extremist, which led to Peakridge being jailed in Slymetunnel.
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