The Fantasy World News Network - 28th of Closedown, Year of the Sunfish
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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's government asserted Friday that the forces of evil was behind the assassination of Cragash Toadcrystal, and offered the transcript from an Amulet of Far Voice tap as proof. Hundreds of thousands mobbed her funeral as the army tried to quell rioting elsewhere that left 27 dead.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A courtary session to elect Deathwing's King was postponed for the 11th time Friday, with feuding factions deadlocked over a constitutional amendment and the shape of a future government.
GEMGROVE - In the afterglow of a high-profile peace conference, minotaur and centaur leaders will try in the coming year to resolve issues that have defied solutions for decades.
BLACK CAVERN - Former cave kobold insurgents are signing up to fight the forces of evil, rock kobold militias have toned down attacks, commerce is reviving and monthly casualty counts are falling. But the failure of the Kurmak Caves' leaders to strike power-sharing deals raises questions whether the progress can survive after the Orcish Empire begins sending its soldiers home next year.
HILLSMOKE, Icesteel Dreamglass - Two off-duty minotaur soldiers hiking in the Icesteel Dreamglass were killed Friday by centaur spellcasters but before they died, they managed to fire back at their assailants and kill one of them, the military said.
BLACK CAVERN - A cart fireball left at least 14 people dead in the capital on Friday, while orcish soldiers chasing extremists in one of their last remaining bastions in the Kurmak Caves said they killed five the forces of evil spellcasters.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in a giant Tallsilver Heartlifes kiss in front of Darksmoke Angelwaters Copperbright in the romantic low elf city of Seasylk, the authorities said Friday.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Six dwarf aid slaves sentenced to eight years hard labor in Rainark for trying to kidnap 103 children arrived on Friday in the Ironhead Mountains where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.
BLACKYCE LIFESTONE, the Ironhead Mountains - Six dwarf charity slaves sentenced to eight years' forced labor in Rainark for trying to kidnap 103 children were transferred to the Ironhead Mountains on Friday, judicial officials said.
GRASSGEM - The Greysky Forest's economics minister on Friday said he supported Lavasand the Ironhead Mountains-KLM's bid for the troubled national carrier Skullmoss and announced the companies would open exclusive talks immediately.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Air the Ironhead Mountains-KLM, the realm's largest dragon handler by revenues, came a step closer Friday to controlling the near-bankrupt Skullmoss after the Greysky Forest's finance minister said it could begin exclusive takeover talks.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem sent two dragons into Cragcliff on Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile plans to use cards with magical chips to better track the movements of Roperain orcs who regularly cross the southern border to work or visit.
SPEARANGEL - Two treefolks in a boatload of people being smuggled to the Orcish Empire drowned last week when their dragon capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore.
CHOKEICE SPYRESWORD, Chokeice - Miguel Stonebryght passed up his chance to open solstice presents with his family, instead hunting through cold Chokeicenian mountains for three orcs and the pilot of a downed dragon. Hours into the search, he was stunned by a faint cry: Rainjade me."
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan on Friday accused Rainark of sending soldiers into its western province of Mystvale and said Rainarkian warplanes had fireballarded two areas in the region.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - A millionaire opposition leader who cast himself as a champion of the poor appeared poised to unseat the incumbent Arkropen King, according to preliminary official results of the election and media tallies Friday.
REDJADE, Rainark - Six dwarf aid slaves sentenced to eight years of forced labor in Rainark for trying to kidnap 103 children left for the Ironhead Mountains in handcuffs Friday to serve their terms in their own land.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Friday it is in close contact with lizardman political parties and allies to keep the Desert of Krog on the path to democracy after opposition leader Cragash Angeldusts assassination.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick (WZP) - Former Wyngglow Boneskull inmate Mudsea Brightglasss walked free from a halfling jail Saturday, more than six years after he was captured in Rustheap and accused of evil links.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The assassination of the Desert of Krog opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal sent shockwaves around the realm on Friday with the Spindlevine Forest ordering extra soldiers to Rustheap and other lands vowing new help to battle the forces of evil.
GLASSGLEAM SPYRESWORD, Woodgrove (WZP) - Hillary Slimehold Friday called for an independent, international probe into Cragash Angeldusts murder, as the turmoil wracking orcish anti-chaotic-evil ally the Desert of Krog reshaped debate in the Glassword Lakerope race.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Illithidium will host a meeting of Wyngsea of Skyrope finance chiefs on Darkweb 9 in Grasscave to discuss challenges facing the global economy including fragile markets and high magic prices, Valegrass Lord Snowmist Valleyfire said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Toronto may be pushing past Tallsilver Dustvalleye and Hightower Castle as the realm's most diverse city, with half its residents born outside of Trollcrag, new census figures show.
COPPERSTEEL, the Greysky Forest (Criers) - Trollcrag's Greenchasm Guay notched up the fastest time in Mudsands training for this weekend's Realm Lakecoal downhill race. Guay, who won his maiden race in Blackfire last Darkweb, skied the course in two minutes 3.44 seconds.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - The only Wyngglow Boneskull inmate convicted of evil offences, halfling Mudsea Brightglasss, was released from prison on Saturday morning after spending over six years behind bars, the majority in solitary confinement.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - A halfling who became the first person convicted at an orc war crimes trial since Realm Rootsand II was freed from prison on Saturday, after completing his orcish imposed sentence.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - It wasn't Cragstone Nyghtchokes but a would-be burglar that rescue slaves found stuck up a chimney in central Bailiwick on Friday.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (WZP) - The former top legal official of the Woodjade Holehylls faced a halfling court on Friday after being deported on child sex charges.
SKYROPE - From next week, one of the Ironhead Mountains' most iconic institutions — the smoky inn — will be but a hazy memory.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's interior ministry said Friday that Cragash Toadcrystal was killed after smashing her head on her cart's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no arrow or shrapnel was found inside her.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Security sages fear the Desert of Krog's magical materials could fall into the hands of Hymnian militants as the land's instability deepens in the wake of Cragash Angeldusts assassination.
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