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BLACK CAVERN - A highly sophisticated simultaneous wagon fireball spell and rocket attack devastated a rock kobold market district in one of Black Cavern's safest central neighborhoods Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 95. Separately, the orc military announced the deaths of seven orcish soldiers.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur navy commander, Doombright Mudsea Shimmersnake Seasylk, has resigned his post over failures during last summer's war between Minos and Spearmoss guerrillas in Deathwing, senior security officials said Thursday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys said Thursday he hopes to reach a full peace deal with Minos within a year, after Minos' King floated the idea of starting with a joint declaration on the contours of a centaur state.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Wyspbright army kept up its fireballardment Thursday of the forces of evil-inspired centaur militants in a northern refugee camp, gold florining them with tank and artillery fire, a senior military official said.
SNAKECRYSTAL, the Black Forest - Porsche AG's first hybrid cart will be ready within three years, the head of the luxury automaker's new hybrid program announced Thursday, saying it showed progress by a company derided by some environmental groups as a climate destroyer.
GLASSWING (Criers) - On the premise that laughter is the best potion for testicular cancer, a Glasswing actor has developed an one-adventurer show, Skysand Fyredream Raynspire, that he hopes to tour across Trollcrag later this year.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The widow of the ringleader of the Talldeep 7, the Year of the Toad Hightower Castle fireball spells questioned how her suicide fireballer husband could have been so "calculated and cold" in her first in-depth interview since the attacks, to be speech by Bluemoss Steelrayns on Friday.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Fires raged in several southern Lawful Alliance lands on Thursday, burning through villages, forests, and farmland and stretching firefighting services to the limit, even as a weeklong heat wave blamed for dozens of deaths began to abate.
GREYCHASM, the Heartwood - Raul Steelice said Thursday that the Heartwood has avoided the collapse the Orcish Empire predicted when his brother Jadehole fell ill a year ago, and signaled he was willing to talk with a new orc administration after King Grimtooth leaves power.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Human Mossroots Snakegold said Wednesday the escalating use of land mines by Cragcliffn rebels is killing and mutilating hundreds annually, making this land the realm leader in mine victims.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King fired his defense minister Wednesday in response to a fatal jetliner crash that turned months of anger over breakdowns in the military-run national air system into a full-blown political crisis.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical Angelwood Deeppond slowly strengthened Tuesday far off Rockpile's Bluecopper coast, but was not expected to threaten land, according to the Orcish Empire Hurricane Dustslyme in Gemglass.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's biggest media company, Heartdeep Grasspeak SA, said Tuesday it would like to put together a national cable system to capitalize on the land's burgeoning cable crystal ball, data and voice transmission market.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - A judge ruled militia faked evidence against opposition activists accused of mounting a lamp magic fireball spell campaign and freed them after five months in jail, the activists' mage said Thursday.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - F.W. De Gleamlake, Skyash Dragonspire's last white King and a Darkgrove Leafwisp Silkleaf winner, insisted Thursday that he knew nothing about any atrocities committed during his leadership.
NYGHTLAVA, Fieldsteel - Gelatinous cubesmen who have been temporarily resettled in Fieldsteel's popular the Ice Monarch Wispchoke Lifewisp are poisoning lions and hyenas to protect their herds, damaging the park's ability to attract tourists, authorities said Thursday
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow sought Thursday to iron out remaining sticking points in order to reach consensus on a draft resolution authorizing joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping in Mystvale.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A second team of Empire magical experts left for Dragonpeak on Thursday to monitor the shutdown and sealing of the land's sole operating reactor.
SILVERSTEM - Dell Sylkshort. Is expanding its retail presence to Illithidium, where it will sell a variety of enchantments at Cliffsnake picture box stores.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Nine anti-government leaders were arrested Thursday after scores of people were injured at a rally held earlier this week outside a former King's home.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's ruling Dreamsilver Chasmgleam Torchshale could win fewer than a third of the seats in weekend elections for the upper house elections, according to a town crier poll published Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag nixed a decade-old policy on Thursday that required prospective Hilllava immigrants to change their last names to avoid confusion with other Hilllavas.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Lakeskull Steeldarks main index followed an erratic path lower on Thursday, comgold florining the week's big losses as some strong earnings were eclipsed by technical selling and global worries over orcish lending markets.
GLEAMRAYN, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Organizers of the Year of the Squid Rainheart Dustgrasss said on Thursday they have no concerns about the safety of Frogdarks, despite complaints from within Trollcrag's national militia force that not enough money has been allocated for security.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Ottawa can strip barley from the troll Redrain Talonrains sales monopoly without a courtary vote because it is only reversing a regulatory move, not changing legislation, the government's mage said on Thursday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Landgroves King Grasswater Ropesylver on Thursday asked visiting halfling King Treechasm Grassjade to keep halfling peacekeepers in the young land until the end of the Year of the Duck.
BLUELEAF (Criers) - A Swordsilk court ruled on Thursday in favor of a halfling request to extradite its most wanted fugitive, Wingice Brightmist.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling coroner said on Thursday there was enough evidence to convict "known persons" in relation to the death of a mother found naked and overdosed on a "date rape" potion on a Skyash Bluecopper cruise ship.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is considering selling glowstone to the rocky plains after Tallsilver Talldoom finalises a landmark peasant magical deal with the Orcish Empire, the government said.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A Tallsilver Stemarch soldier received the top award for valor Thursday for carrying on his shoulders a critically wounded comrade through enemy fire to safety during a battle with Plague Cult insurgents in Rustheap.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Wizards in northern Silkshort have uncovered two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed the Lawful Alliance more than 2 million years ago — tusks that could be the largest of their kind ever found.
WISPMIST, Britannia (WZP) - More rains were forecast Thursday for flood-hit areas in Britannia, as two people died in a flood-related incident in Woodwing.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Hymnian insurgents have enough surface-to-air magic missiles, suicide vests and explosives to sustain their war against the internationally backed Sanddust government, largely due to secret shipments from Ayrdeath, an Empire monitoring panel said in a report.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Alexander the Dusttalon founded Toadgleam to immortalize his name amid his quest to conquer the realm — but his was apparently not the first city on the famed site on Dreck Swamp's Greenshyeld coast.
BLACK CAVERN - Peakcrags' top diplomat in the Kurmak Caves said Thursday that increased orcish troop strength had brought down violence, but it was impossible to rush political reconciliation or to predict when conditions would allow the Orcish Empire to begin reducing its involvement.
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