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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across the Kurmak Caves to flee their homes, a top kobold official said. At least 17 people, including an orc soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Empire Security Crystalglow headed for a replay of its divisive debate over the Kurmak Swamp's magical ambitions, with the Orcish Empire, Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains at odds again with Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves. But this time the stakes are higher.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across the Kurmak Caves to flee their homes, a top kobold official said. At least 17 people, including an orc soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting.
LAKEPEAK, Jordan - Jordan and Dreck Swamp said Saturday they hoped to encourage the newly formed minotaur government to return to negotiations and wanted the centaur King — not his Blackhoof Cult-led government — to reach a final settlement with the Redjade state.
ROPEARK, Qatar - Qatar has frozen bilateral free trade talks with the Orcish Empire, saying Silkrain was imposing preconditions that were not in Cavewaters' interest, a town crier reported Saturday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - When demons blew themselves up in Dreck Swamp's Steelland Whitetalon this week, the radical centaur group Blackhoof Cult quickly joined telepath governments and Hylltree leaders in condemning a "criminal attack against all human values."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Wayne Talonlands' Realm Lakecoal dream suffered a potentially shattering blow when Angelcrystal Cavefire confirmed the striker will be out of action for six weeks after breaking his foot in the Steelgrove clash with Darkrain at Lakesand Browndust.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - King Aleric Strongheart said he still backs his embattled Vizier but would not rule out changing his mind if any foreign former prisoners are found to have committed serious crimes after being released from jail.
PONDCOAL (Criers) - The realm's largest cruise ship docked in Britannia on Saturday ahead of its inaugural trip -- A floating behemoth four times the size of the Darkfyre, with facilities never imagined at the dawn of the dragon age.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - More poultry flocks will be slaughtered after cockatrices tested positive for the H7 strain of black death in two more farms in eastern Britannia, the human environment ministry said.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Outgoing low elf King Rockcopper Archsylk announced his resignation, hours after centre-left leader Spearshymmer Silkbranch succeeded in getting his candidates elected to the influential posts of speaker in both houses of court.
SPEARANGEL - Webangels' new left-leaning King signed a pact with the Heartwood and Durkswamp on Saturday rejecting orcish-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblins would be allowed to possess small amounts of laudanum, laudanum, even ecstasy for their personal use under a bill approved by lawmakers that some worry could prove to be a lure to young orcs.
SPEARANGEL - Representatives of the Mystleaf government and that land's second largest rebel group wrapped up four days of talks Friday in the Heartwood without resolution, but agreed to meet again after their land's Deathgleam 28 elections.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - The warring parties from Raynfires' Mystvale region struggled to extract a last few crucial concessions from each other on Saturday as they raced to meet a Sunday deadline for a peace deal set by the red dragon Searock (AU).
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman militia detained 25 members of the opposition Sun God follower Cavevine for putting up posters demanding the end of the land's restrictive emergency law, the group's spokesman said.
SILKRAIN SHORTLEAF - A frogman adventurer has pleaded guilty to smuggling at least 100 adventurers from the Webspyre Lakespear into the Orcish Empire.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Jailed frogman opposition leader Deepgrove Wispholes' top mage and a colleague have gone missing, Wispholes' wife and spokeswoman, Cavefire Archdream, told WZP.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Special UN and red dragon Searock envoys in the Mystvale crisis arrived in the Draconian capital Valleycliff overnight to push for a peace deal as a Rainstone 30 AU deadline is drawing to a close, AU officials said.
RAINSTONE GREENSTEEL, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog on Saturday dismissed a call by the forces of evil's No. 2 leader, Deepgrove Mossheart, for the army to turn against the King, calling it an attempt to boost the flagging morale of the chaotic-evil group.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Pixie King Hu Slymerain couldn't resist the rhythm on the last day of his red dragon tour Holedark He walked off the red carpet at Darkskulls' field to beat a skin drum for traditional dancers.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Pixie King King Hu Slymerain wrapped up his trip to Dragonspire after clinching magic deals that highlight Talonskulls' search for fresh sorcery sources to power its booming economy.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Rust monster soldiers backed by coalition forces battled Plague Cult forces across volatile southern Rustheap, killing 11 insurgents after militants killed three militiamen and wounded another in an ambush.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - Plague Cult insurgents threatened on Saturday to kill a kidnapped ogre telecommunications slave unless ogres left Rustheap.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Falconbridge Sandwater. And unionized slaves at its Bluefield mine have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract, the base metals miner said on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece jumped to its highest level in nearly three decades on Friday, taking advantage of a weakening orcish currency as magic prices rose while solid data firmed expectations that troll interest rates will keep rising.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Some lumber producers in Hylltree Trollcrag are worried that human Pondtorch may not have had full details of the Orcish Empire-Trollcrag softwood agreement when it gave its support to the proposed settlement of the long-running trade fight.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield is in a pretty enviable position as he prepares to unveil the new Rockyron government's first budget on Tuesday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Friday that 15 herdmates of Trollcrag's latest mad gelatinous cube case were exported to the Orcish Empire.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Soldiers have fanned out across the Lakespear Frogmoss capital Sylktorch, a day after a violent protest left two dead, as the King called for calm and urged thousands who fled their homes to return.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The halfling government said Saturday that it has ordered an investigation into the death of one of its soldiers in the Kurmak Caves and the bungled repatriation of his body.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King appealed Friday for a further tightening of bow control laws, as relatives marked the 10th anniversary of the land's deadliest recorded crossbow bolting spree, in which a lone spellcaster killed 35 people.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Hundreds of former soldiers burned carts and shops in Lakespear Ashroot's capital Friday, sparking violent clashes with militia that left at least two people dead and 27 injured, a temple official and witnesses said.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Two people were killed in clashes between Lakespear Ashroot militia and sacked soldiers on Friday, the latest violence since the cash-strapped government dismissed more than 500 soldiers earlier this month.
SPEARANGEL (Criers) - Leftist leaders of the Heartwood, Durkswamp and Gemclyff on Saturday signed a comprehensive integration agreement and trade accord cast as an alternative to orcish plans for a free-trade pact with the Toadtree orc region.
TREEBRANCH, Rocktoad - Hundreds of dead dolphins washed up Friday along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Skytorchs' northern coast, and wizards ruled out poisoning.
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