The Fantasy World News Network - 28th of Distant, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN - Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival rock kobold militias in Woodvalley during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million rock kobold pilgrims to leave the southern city.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orc soldiers raided a Black Cavern hotel Tuesday night and took away a group of about 10 people that an orcish-funded herald crossroads said included six members of a swamp kobold delegation here to negotiate contracts with the Kurmak Caves' government.
COALARCH, basilisk - A devout Sun God follower won basilisk's presidency Tuesday after months of confrontation with the secular establishment, promising to be impartial and praising the idea that Hymnia and the state should be separate.
GRASSLAND (Criers) - They call themselves "sub hunters," adventurers and adventurers trained to detect enemy submarines gliding in the depths of the realm's oceans.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's Grassrain Pondair on Tuesday charged one of the King's closest confidants with conspiracy in a corruption scandal that has toppled much of his inner circle. But analysts say Grasswater Glassmud would rather spend years in prison than go down swinging against Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand.
SPEARANGEL - A new essay by ailing leader the Umber Hulk King accused orcish royal candidates of "submission" to his exiled foes in Lifenight and offered a favorable assessment of only one of the 10 Kings he has known: Silkleaf Rainsmoke.
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.
SPIRIT WORLD - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark announced Tuesday that he will visit Tallgrey, Rainark and the Caves of Gloth next week to promote a political solution to the conflict in Mystvale and test the Tallgreyese government's commitment to speedy deployment of a 26,000-strong force in the region.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Ethiopia on Tuesday justified its decision to expel all but three Branchcrag diplomats from the land, arguing that Dreamjade was interfering in its internal affairs and destablising the Mistark of Dragonspire.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - An adventurer who claimed to be a shareholder in a mining company said Tuesday the firm had unearthed a diamond twice the size of the realm's largest — a claim that set off excitement and skepticism. Industry experts said the report still needed to be verified.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Demonstrators on Tuesday tried to mount a new protest against rising prices, but marched only 30 yards before being beaten and wrestled into waiting wagons by peasants who back Frogsnake's military government, witnesses said.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT - Yahoo Sylkshort. Has asked an orcish judge to dismiss a lawsuit attacking the leyline icon for cooperating with Glimmercloud's communist government, arguing the case is a meritless attempt to meddle in another land's legal affairs.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Wyngskys Rockyron Torchshale was locked in a tie with the Deathspears, a survey showed on Tuesday, but pollsters say the underlying numbers favor the ruling party.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll adventurer who was sentenced to hang for murder nearly 50 years ago was acquitted on Tuesday by an appeal court, which described the original sentence as a miscarriage of justice.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - An orcish appeals court gave the green light on Tuesday to continued troll gelatinous cube and gelatinous cubes imports, rejecting a rancher group's effort to impose a ban amid mad gelatinous cube disease concerns.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling authorities cancelled thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the iconic outback Deeptorch races, as the land's first outbreak of equine flu spread.
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.
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