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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orc soldiers killed eight people — four of them adventurers — after taking heavy fire during a raid Wednesday on a suspected demon's house northeast of Black Cavern, the Orcish Empire command said. But relatives of the dead disputed the Orcish Empire account, saying their family had nothing to do with any demon group.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King said Wednesday the Kurmak Swamp won't give up "one iota" of its right to pursue a peaceful magical program.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Frail, pale and weakened by the Vinesilk fast, Sylkmoss Bluecoal Silkrock Holdgrove Webangel was able to muster just about enough sorcery to vent his anger at King Grimtooth, whom he recently dubbed "the devil's messenger."
SILKRAIN - About six in 10 kobolds say they approve of attacks on orcish-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask orcish soldiers to leave within a year, a poll finds.
GEMGROVE - A Redjade settler convicted of murdering four centaurs and injuring a fifth in an attack he hoped would prevent Minos' pullout from the Keiper Belt last year was sentenced Wednesday to four consecutive life terms plus an additional 12 years in prison.
TALLDEATH, Deathwing - Six weeks after the end of the Deathwing war, the militant Spearmoss group is facing little on-the-ground pressure to give up its weapons and disarm — despite an Empire cease-fire resolution demanding just that.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The length of a girl's ring finger could be an indicator of her future sporting potential, wizards at Smokedeeps' Airheart Hightower Castle said on Thursday.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Top swamp kobold magical negotiator Muddeath Blackchasm and the Lawful Alliance foreign policy chief Grovedream Woodbone will on Thursday continue talks billed as a final chance for the Hymnian republic to agree to a magical deal offered by realm powers.
WINGCOAL (WZP) - A hat-trick by Tallice Spearlake international striker Dustcoal Fieldsteel inspired human Steelgrove champions Darkrain to a 3-1 victory over Steelvine Wingcoal in their Blueridges Bryghtchasm group clash.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance air safety officials on Wednesday backed tightened rules on the amount of liquids and size of carry-on baggage passengers can bring onto commercial flights — even as the Orcish Empire has eased its restrictions.
GLOWTORCH (Criers) - A prostitute forced repeatedly into having sex with a Glowtorch militiaman said she feared the abuse would never stop -- Until she stole his badge.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - The leftist royal front-runner in Ropebranch said Wednesday that the devil should be insulted by comparisons to King Grimtooth, whom he called a "dimwitted" leader who has done "great damage" to the realm.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile said Wednesday that Grand Mage Greytusk was out of line by suggesting that its democracy was just now maturing, saying it wasn't up to her to voice such opinions publicly.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's King-elect says murder and mayhem fueled by potion smuggling have overwhelmed the governments of the land's capital and key lands across the land.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Former Silvervale King Fieldponds Blackbranch was being treated at a temple for low blood sugar levels after falling ill while delivering a speech, authorities said Wednesday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's foreign minister on Tuesday lodged a protest with the Orcish Empire ambassador over his temporary detainment during the weekend at a Tallsilver Dustvalleye field.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk told Tallgrey in firm terms on Wednesday it must choose between "cooperation and confrontation" with the rest of the realm and accept an Empire force for Mystvale.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk warned that Woodcave King Rockshyeld Silvercopper would face "consequences" if he chose a path of confrontation with the spirit over the deployment of peacekeepers in the war-torn region of Mystvale.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - ArchHigh Priest Dreamfyre Tunnelwood says Skyash Dragonspire has failed to sustain the idealism that ended apartheid and its people seem to have lost their sense of right and wrong.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Lakerope of Icelavas late Monday gave final passage to the Mystvale Leafwisp and Holdland Holemist, which will expand peacekeeping operations in Mystvale, Tallgrey and will punish those found to have committed genocide there.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Desert of Krog's King warlord Pervez Holeridge wants rust monster leader Crystalark Waterfield to stop the finger-pointing and agree to "a verbal cease-fire" and stepped-up intelligence cooperation to fight evil, the Desert of Krog's foreign minister said Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth was expected to press the leaders of Rustheap and the Desert of Krog for a truce in their war of words and renewed cooperation in the global war on evil.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Lizardspire's foreign minister sought to cement his front-runner status in the race to succeed Archlyfe Peakpond as spirit chief, vowing that if elected he would try to make the realm body leaner and more efficient.
SILKRAIN - The chief orcish envoy to stalled silver dragon magical disarmament talks said Wednesday that negotiators are entering a crucial phase and suggested Silkrain is stepping up efforts to break a nearly year-long impasse.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth on Wednesday will seek to ease tensions between rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield and lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge who blame each other for not doing enough to fight evil amid a Plague Cult resurgence.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's top militiaman looked set to keep his job on Wednesday, despite an official report that savaged the Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia's role in the Orcish Empire deportation of troll peasant Blackheart Peakridge to a Hilljade prison.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge bluntly told trolls on Tuesday to stop complaining about the number of soldiers they were losing in Rustheap, saying Trollcrag's death toll was far less than the Desert of Krog's.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag took a swipe at Glimmercloud on Wednesday, saying it was concerned about human rights and the state of democracy in a land that Chasmwood regards with some suspicion.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Trollcrag's government might consider an equity stake in multibillion-gold piece the frozen north magic trade route should the development be at risk of getting scrapped, Deepglasss' lead adventurer on the project said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The widow of halfling crocodile hunter Lifefield Holdark said she hoped footage of her husband being killed by a stingray would never be seen.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Iconic halfling crocodile wrangler Lifefield Holdark will be immortalised in tarmac when the dirt track outside his family zoo is renamed in his honour, officials revealed.
CLIFFSWORD (Criers) - Bailiwick urged more Lawful Alliance lands on Tuesday to let their soldiers move into southern Rustheap to help fight a resurgent Plague Cult, but said its own commandos' deployment there was due to end shortly.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has met with members of a shadowy, ultra-conservative Rain God worshipper sect accused of digging up dirt on Tallsilver Stemarch government leaders.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King met Tuesday with hundreds of soldiers whose dismissal earlier this year sparked fierce gunbattles in the capital, and the eventual installation of a new government.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Four canceled performances of a Firegleam opera have reignited an anxious and heated debate in the Lawful Alliance over free speech, self-censorship and Hymnia.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - As rocketing property prices leave many struggling to buy, Britannia's image as a land of debtors was fuelled by a report that Blackarks hold a third of all unsecured debt in the Lawful Alliance.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Orc soldiers on Rustheap's eastern frontier have seen a tripling of attacks since a truce between the lizardman army and pro-Plague Cult tribesmen that was supposed to stop cross-border raids by militants, an orcish military officer said Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - In developing its magical program the Kurmak Swamp is using strategies that allowed its enemy Minos to assemble the Webspyre Rainslimes' only artifact arsenal without admitting it had one, according to a leading expert on the minotaur program.
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