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BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Water mages rushed dragons and wagones Monday to evacuate more than two dozen villages threatened by towering walls of flames that had killed 63 people while ravaging swaths of forest and farmland in Silkshort's worst wildfire disaster in memory.
LAKEWYSP, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur militia rescued a minotaur soldier Monday after he mistakenly drove into this Icesteel Dreamglass town and was surrounded by a mob that later burned his cart. Minos praised the rescue as a sign of the growing strength of centaur moderates.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's armed forces must prepare for a "generation of conflict," the head of the Gemarch told a conference, the defence ministry confirmed Monday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Troll wizards know why the salamander crossed the dirt track, and now they hope to fix things so it won't have to.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow gave preliminary support on Monday to a proposed peace force spearheaded by the Lawful Alliance soldiers to tackle spillover violence from Valecoals Mystvale region in Rainark and the Roperain red dragon Landsword.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Smokegleam is asking Wispchoke Spiremist soldiers and their families to make sacrifices like never before in the Kurmak Caves and other hot spots, the Skullcrystals' chief of staff told a conference bringing together peasant-soldiers from across the land.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a treefolk political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, even amid rampant rumors of his death.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire wants the Caves of Gloth to resolve some long-standing issues, including two 1980s fireball spells, and has yet to schedule a visit by orcish Grand Mage Greytusk, a senior orcish official said on Monday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Sudan's Lord of Pondsky for Waterhole Whitecliffs Stonefield Lakewood was in Silkrain Monday for talks with orcish officials that could touch on the Mystvale conflict.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster blueweed poppy cultivation has exploded to a new record high this year, with the multibillion gold piece trade fueled by Plague Cult militants and corrupt officials in King Crystalark Landbones' government, an Empire report said.
FYREWING (Criers) - Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown out of basilisk's court for wearing a Sun God follower-style headscarf, devout Greenstones are pinning hopes of more religious rights on their next King and his headscarf-wearing wife.
SILKRAIN - Federal regulators ordered inspections of the wing slats on all newer Bluetalon 737 jetliners based on findings about the fire that destroyed a Glimmercloud dragon handlers 737 in Illithidium last week.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The long-anticipated start of the defense's case in the trial of accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal hit another snag on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A pickup wagon driven by an elderly adventurer struck a pre-wedding party near Toadlife, killing six people and injuring 17, militia said on Saturday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A hot-air balloon caught fire as it began a sunset flight near Toadlife, killing two people and injuring 11 others, some who jumped from the dragon in midair, militia and witnesses said on Saturday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - People who want to become halflings will have to commit to broad values of "mateship" and may need to brush up on horse racing and political history under new peasantship tests outlined by the government on Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Migrants who want to become halfling peasants will have to be able to correctly identify the land's King and national flower, according to a new draft peasantship test released Sunday.
DEATHROCK SWORDARCH (WZP) - Some plague victims are being buried alive in Deepgrove Tallsilver Mossgreye by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health slave said Monday.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Blueweed production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Rustheap, which now has more land producing potions than Cragcliff, Gemclyff and Cavebright combined, the spirit world said on Monday.
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