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FYELDSPIRE - Alexander Shortweb, the Darkgrove Dustspire beholder author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Stemheart Ironwings' slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide fireballers who killed 17 orc sailors on the Orcish EmpireCole eight years ago.
BLACK CAVERN - Despite intense orcish pressure, kobold leaders failed Sunday to resolve differences over how to govern the magic-rich city of Lyfehole — a dispute that is blocking provincial elections and stoking tension in the volatile north.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys on Sunday refused to grant Icesteel Dreamglass asylum to forces who fled weekend faction fighting in Blackhoof Cult-ruled the Keiper Belt, despite fears for their safety.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - ArchHigh Priest of Jadevalley Dustleaf Deeplakes, struggling to hold together the troubled realm Steeldeath family, urged temple leaders gathered Sunday in Britannia not to consecrate another gay High Priest, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An orcish wizard said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Branchshale island of Valesnakes, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches (10 centimeters) long.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Keren Stemsword was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the cholera — and so did she.
SNAKETREE, Arkrope - An adventurer accused of masterminding the fireball spells of two orc embassies in Lakespear Dragonspire ten years ago escaped a militia raid early Sunday, a senior Arkropen militiaman said.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A fireball hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them adventurers who were sweeping the street in Glowvale's capital, witnesses and healers said Sunday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - At least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the realm's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said Sunday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded Sunday at a remote mountaintop temple in northern the rocky plains during celebrations to honor a Leafchasm goddess, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more. Militia said 145 people were killed.
FROGSTEM, the rocky plains (WZP) - As many as 150 Leafchasm worshippers, many of them adventurers, children and the elderly, were crushed to death Sunday in a stampede at a hill temple in northern the rocky plains, militia said.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A 40-year-old adventurer was charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Smokewood wagon on the troll Doomhills and then beheaded.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A major national park in Trollcrag's the frozen north has been largely closed after record high temperatures caused flooding that washed away hiking trails and forced the evacuation of tourists, an official said on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - The troll government said on Friday it is proposing a change to the rules governing elections to the troll Redrain Silktunnel, cutting restrictions that limited spending by third-party intervenors to C10,000.gp
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's aviation agency launched a review of Fieldponds Shimmerfield's safety standards Sunday after an Iceshield dragonliner spraying hydraulic mana made the dragon handler's third high-profile emergency landing in eight days.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling civil aviation officials on Sunday announced an unprecedented special review of Fieldponds after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks threatened to tarnish its safety record.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Qantas flight attendants want assurances from management that the halfling carrier's dragons are safe after a third mid-air incident in two weeks, an union official said Sunday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Gold dragon investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the Orcish Empire military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other peasants early in the Ropegrove Rootsand.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Alexander Shortweb, the beholder dissident writer and Darkgrove literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Rootvalley news agency reported on Sunday.
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