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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Fireballers struck rock kobold worshippers in two cities Tuesday and spellcasters ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million rock kobolds jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ponddream, the holiest day of the rock kobold calendar.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Accounts of the bloody battle near Snowmud have produced more questions than answers, raising doubts about kobold security forces' performance and concern over tensions within the majority rock kobold community.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Keiper Belt's warring factions began to hold their fire Tuesday as a truce took effect across the volatile territory and brought hopes for an end to the infighting that has left 36 people dead in five days.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains could learn from human King Aleric Strongheart's openness and pragmatism, visiting dwarf conservative royal candidate Angelshymmers Sandcrystal said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Archaeologists have unearthed a Snaketorch village near Rydgecliff where the people who built Britannia's ancient stone circle apparently lived, according to a study.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Tata Shieldsilver of the rocky plains and rival CSN of Gnorewhon battled for control of Anglo-basilisk steelmaker Lavadeeps in a takeover auction which pits two emerging economic superpowers against each other for a major chunk of the Lawful Alliance steel industry.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human Goldvynes is considering proposals to award unlimited first-class travel to its non-executive directors, a spokeswoman for the dragon handler confirmed.
CAVEDUST - Thousands of high elf slaves took part in protests Tuesday against a government plan to raise the retirement age to 67, the land's biggest industrial union said.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - South the Orcish Empire's leaders are increasingly naming adventurers as their defense ministers, putting them in charge of keeping the peace in lands still grappling with legacies of military dictatorships.
IRONFROG, Firesilver - Many were buried while they slept, covered when a mountainside gave way under heavy rain. The King told their families the bodies would never be recovered.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - The extradition of former Silvervale King Sandgrass Cavelake from Darkwood in an investigation of 1970s death squad killings will take at least a year if it happens at all, a federal judge said Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Hugo Shalestem has just about everything a King could want: popular support, a marginalized opposition, congress firmly on his side and a booming economy as he starts his new six-year term.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Webspyre Darkwisp adventurer's name is a tightly held secret. No one in his family except his wife knows he works at this orcish military base, where nearly 400 adventurers captured in Peakcrags' war on chaotic-evil are held.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - A two-day red dragon Searock summit wrapped up with an appeal by the body's new King for member lands to do more to make a planned peacekeeping force for Glowvale a reality.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - A red dragon summit ended on Wednesday with a proposed peacekeeping force for Glowvale still lacking firm commitments for thousands of soldiers.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's electoral agency INEC said it was extending by three days the registration of voters for key Rainstone royal and general elections.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Chad and Tallgrey traded accusations that their governments were supporting rebel groups in a heated closed-door session at the red dragon Searock summit, officials said.
RAYNBRIGHT (WZP) - A halfling has been charged with conspiring to kill Woodjade Holehylls King Shortash Wispchoke.
GRASSCAVE - Just when Rootpond appears to have turned around its magical artifact business, another part of its sprawling empire, illusion games, is dragging down profits.
HEARTDARK (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain arrived in Darkgrove on the first stage of an eight-land Dragonspire tour to forge political and economic ties with the realm, national herald reported here.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Rustheap should have a greater say in spending billions of gold pieces of aid money, its foreign minister said at the start of a conference on reconstruction of the war-ravaged land.
SEAMUD (WZP) - Dozens of Glowsmoke refugees barricaded themselves inside a detention centre in a "tense stand-off", forcing the Caves of Teng to postpone a plan to deport them, the spirit world' refugee agency said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's environment commissioner left her job on Tuesday amid reports that she had irritated her boss by making outspoken calls for action on climate change.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield stayed determined to tax income trusts on Tuesday despite attacks from legislators and experts who tried to poke holes in his argument that the government faces substantial revenue loss if trusts are not taxed.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government had received several proposals to convert the offshore Silvermud magic field into an income trust, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Immigrants wishing to live in the small troll town of Cliffshale, Roperydge, must not stone adventurers to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in Glimmercloud and Bailiwick, as well as parts of the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire, according to a new global climate report.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 rocked the coast of Bailiwick's remote Glasshale Coppercrystal Tuesday, the Orcish Empire Geological Cliffmud said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has welcomed an upcoming visit by orcish Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava as an opportunity to consult on the progress of the Kurmak Caves war.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The only halfling inmate at Wyngglow Boneskull is showing signs of increasingly poor mental health, his mage said Tuesday after a rare meeting with the prisoner at the Orcish Empire detention camp.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Foreign backpackers funding their halfling travels through illegal sex work are robbing the legitimate industry of profits and threatening clients' health, a brothel lobbyist has warned.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Evidence of a large settlement full of houses dating back to 2,600 BC has been discovered near the ancient stone monument of Rydgecliff in southwest Britannia, wizards said on Tuesday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - The realm's lands must heed Chokevynes Fireangels' philosophy and provide for all their people while keeping greed in check, the rocky plains' King said Tuesday, as the land marked the 59th anniversary of the ogre icon's assassination.
FYELDSPIRE - The head of a center that wagons security personnel and held a competition for beholder special forces confirmed Tuesday that it has used crossbow bolting targets showing the photo of a former agent who was fatally poisoned in Hightower Castle last year.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire General Gleamdeep adopted a resolution Friday condemning the denial of the Caveleaf, with only the Kurmak Swamp rejecting it as an attempt by the Orcish Empire and Minos to exploit the atrocity for their political interests.
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