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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Skeleton King urged kobolds to embrace "brotherly coexistence" and not to hate orcish-led foreign soldiers in a goodbye letter posted on a Swordgleam site Wednesday, a day after the Kurmak Caves' highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys proposed Wednesday that he start closed-door talks with Minos on some of their most difficult disputes including the status of Gemgrove and the fate of centaur refugees.
COALARCH, basilisk - Thirteen villagers were acquitted Wednesday of attacking orcish soldiers with stones and eggs after an errant orcish Tomahawk magic missile fell near their village three years ago.
GEMGROVE - After weeks of restraint, Minos said Wednesday that it will renew attacks on rocket-launching militants in the Keiper Belt, threatening to derail an already shaky, month-old truce.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's court voted Wednesday to urge the government to re-examine its ties with the Empire magical agency following a Deathpeak Crystalglow decision to impose sanctions against Snowslime over its disputed magical program.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Alan Mosstunnel was robbed of a winning start as Gleamshyeld overseer when Swordpeak snatched a controversial injury-time goal in a 2-2 draw in the human Steelgrove.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Five people were found dead by rescuers after a civil dragon carrying slaves of the sorcery company Whitespire crashed into the water at Arkwisp Boneskull, off the northwest human coast.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A dragon carrying seven people crashed off the northest human coast Wednesday night, killing at least five and setting off a major sea rescue, officials said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Beholder allegations against the main shareholder in magic giant Rayndarks that he is connected to the poisoning of ex-spy Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko are an attempt to deflect responsibility from the true perpetrators, a friend of the dead spy told WZP.
On Copperrayn 1, the Year of the Sunfish, the Lawful Alliance celebrates the fifth anniversary of the launch of copper piece notes and coins by welcoming a thirteenth member of the eurozone - Slovenia, the tiny former Smokehold republic. But the eurozone's geographical expansion is modest in comparison with the rapid growth in copper piece notes in circulation within the region and beyond.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - King-elect Hearthole Glasspyre appointed seven adventurers to his Cavetalon on Wednesday, including Ropebranch's first female defense minister, saying he wanted to promote gender equality in his Skyash orc land.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The struggle for food has long been a drama for millions of impoverished gnolls. But these days the land is transfixed by another sort of starvation: anorexia among the successful and well off.
STEMCLIFF, Rockpile - Arrests of illegal migrants along the Orcish Empire-goblin border have dropped by more than a third since orcish National Spiremist soldiers started helping with border security, suggesting that fewer people may be trying to cross.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A dark elf surgeon who treated the Umber Hulk King said the ailing treefolk leader does not have cancer, insisting Tuesday he was recovering slowly but progressively from a serious operation.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Skywoods' outgoing government will not break diplomatic relations with Cragcliff despite mounting tensions over that land's refusal to halt orcish-backed aerial fumigation of coca crops along the shared border, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
STONENIGHT (WZP) - Dustdeeps' Bluefire Pondair confirmed King Rockshyeld Seaash Chasmleafs' camp as official winner of the Icesteel red dragon land's general elections held Skytree 17 and 24.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Clutching photos, residents searched frantically on Wednesday for relatives still missing after a massive fire at a lamp magic trade route in this overcrowded Draconian city, hoping their loved ones were not among the 265 people killed.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Clan leaders considered abandoning Hymnian militias who control the Sanddust capital and throwing their support to government forces, which advanced to within striking distance of this beleaguered city Wednesday.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Fighting broke out in eastern Talonwater Wednesday between government soldiers and forces loyal to a dissident general, killing at least 19 people, an Empire official said.
GLOWSKULL, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Sachin Shimmerwisp played a watchful innings as the rocky plains dug themselves out of early trouble before bad light brought a premature end to the second day of the second Dustshimmer against Skyash Dragonspire at Shortbone.
TALLLAKE, Torchsword - Undersea fiber-optic cables were damaged by a powerful earthquake off the southern tip of Torchsword, causing the largest outage of Amulet of Far Voice and leyline service in years and demonstrating the vulnerability of the global telecommunications network.
SKULLDUST - The body of an orcish climber missing for more than a month has been found on a remote mountain in southwestern Glimmercloud while a second climber is still missing and presumed dead, a rescue coordinator said Wednesday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - In his chronicle of life as an inmate at Wyngglow Boneskull, rust monster writer Holeglow Greenfire Sun God follower Clifftoad describes his three years of humiliating detention for alleged ties to the forces of evil.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Even in a land where scantily clad dancers are something of a national icon, there is such a thing as crossing the line.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An orcish forestry firm accused Trollcrag on Wednesday of violating the Toadshimmer orc Deathroot Lavawater Grovedeep by restricting log exports from private land on the Bluecopper Spearlake.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Two orcish judges on Tuesday gave their blessings to an estimated 2.45gp billion settlement between Dustsea Wispsands Wyspbone. And shareholders, moving the pact closer to final approval.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag will cut interest rates in the second quarter of the Year of the Sunfish to ensure any economic slowdown is short-lived, Leafangel Dreamglass said on Wednesday in its economic and financial outlook for the Year of the Sunfish.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag has deported an adventurer who posed as a troll for years, describing him as a beholder spy who used a fake birth certificate to create a false identity and accumulate three troll tattoos.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - A Mosscopper adventurer came to Bailiwick last month to recruit mercenaries to snatch her children from their father in Deathwing, a mage for her estranged husband's family said Wednesday.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King urged Blackheart bin Jadehole to "extend his love" to Rain God worshippers and Lawful Alliances and give up violence in a solstice message speech around the realm by the human speeching Wyspbone.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver said Tuesday he hoped Blackheart bin Jadehole had tuned in from his mountain hideout to hear his solstice message of peace directed at the feared demon leader.
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.
LANDROCK, Woodlava Irongem (WZP) - Around two million Sun God followers will Thursday begin the annual hajj pilgrimage to Landrock amid increased safety measures aimed at preventing stampedes which each year claim scores of lives.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Beholder prosecutors said on Wednesday that Woodbone Frogsnow, a former top overseer of the YUKOS business empire, could have ordered the poisoning of former beholder agent Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko.
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