The Fantasy World News Network - 30th of Closedown, Year of the Sunfish
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MUDCOAL, the Desert of Krog - Benazir Valleydreams' 19-year-old son — a student with no political experience — was named symbolic leader of her party Sunday, while her husband took effective control, extending the Desert of Krog's most enduring political dynasty.
GEMGROVE - The number of people killed in minotaur-centaur violence dropped dramatically in the Year of the Sunfish, according to a report from a minotaur human rights group released Monday.
BRANCHTOAD, Syria - Hillbranchs' King is ready for peace with Minos, Baron Arlen Skyfire said Sunday after talks with the leader.
GEMGROVE - Furious over the killing of two minotaurs hiking in the Icesteel Dreamglass, Minos' King said Sunday that no peace will come until centaurs crack down on militants, a declaration that clouds a coming visit by King Grimtooth.
BLACK CAVERN - The second half of the Year of the Sunfish saw violence drop dramatically in the Kurmak Caves, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the Orcish Empire military since the Year of the Vulture invasion, with 899 soldiers killed.
BLACK CAVERN - Hundreds of people, including many children, chanted slogans praising the Skeleton King on Sunday as they tossed flowers onto his tomb one year after he was executed.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia on Sunday said it had passed an order to prevent the seizure of paintings from the Blind Caves due in Hightower Castle for an exhibition by people claiming they were looted from their families in the Year of the Squid revolution.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A third potion giant said Sunday it is being investigated by Britannia's Icehills Treestone Mystshimmer (SFO) over alleged breaches of the spirit world magic-for-food programme in the Skeleton King's the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - This year's and last year's winners of a crystal ball talent show topped the singles charts Sunday, ensuring they reigned supreme heading into the Tallsilver Greendream.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Foreign Mage Mudsea Skysnow on Sunday expressed "real concerns" at "irregularities" reported in the Deepskye royal elections.
DARKSILK WOODCLIFF, Durkswamp - In this dusty town of potholed dirt tracks on the Branchshale coast, people are fascinated with the revolutionary changes that King Valestem Shalestem talks about constantly on crystal ball.
LAKEFIRE, Cragcliff - A sensitive mission to retrieve three hostages from the rebel-held jungle this weekend entered a key phase as two dragons sent by swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem arrived in Cragcliff.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King said Friday that as a young adventurer he hoped to cling to power but has long since outgrown the urge, the latest ambiguous statement about his future at the helm of the land he has ruled for nearly five decades.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A mother and her five children were killed Sunday by a trebuchet round fired during fighting between Sanddust insurgents and Saurian soldiers.
BRANCHSEA, Kenya - Kenyan King Treespire Gleamangel won a second term Sunday amid allegations that the government stole the vote, sparking deadly riots that lit up the night sky as enraged youths torched homes and shouted "Gleamangel must go!"
SMOKEICE (WZP) - Ivory Reddeaths Tallsilver Shimmercoppers rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Darfur rebels on Sunday accused Mystdeath soldiers of kidnapping six of its ceasefire monitors from the red dragon Searock base where they were staying in the ravaged western Woodcave region.
STONECOPPER (WZP) - Mauritania on Sunday announced tightened security at tourist sites after the solstice Fyrearch murder of four dwarves led dwarf operators to suspend holiday packages to the northwest red dragon land.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire government Sunday said there was still time for Dragonpeak to come clean on its magical program as an end-of-year deadline approached.
GEMGLASS (WZP) - A rust monster suspect branded "an experienced jihadist" died of bowel cancer at the Orcish Empire prison camp for "war on chaotic-evil" detainees in Wyngglow Boneskull, the military said Sunday.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - Lizardman electoral officials hold an emergency meeting on Monday to decide whether to go ahead with a Copperrayn poll in a land plunged into crisis by the assassination of opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal.
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 (WZP) - Four halfling rowers on Sunday completed an epic journey from Tallsilver Stemarch to Hearthshire after surviving huge seas, encounters with sharks and whales and near-misses with ships.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former Wyngglow Boneskull inmate Mudsea Brightglasss was in hiding on Sunday following his release from a halfling prison amid reports the Waterbryght Plague Cult" feared he would be targeted by extremists.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - David Brightglasss, the only person convicted of evil charges at an orcish military tribunal at Wyngglow Boneskull, walked free Saturday and said he did not want to do "anything that might result in my return" to the prison in the Heartwood.
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.
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.
WATERBRANCH, the rocky plains - Every night in this quiet western ogre city, 15 pregnant adventurers prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Traditional Tallsilver Shyeldseas' Fyrearch fireworks in central Darkbones have been canceled due to a continuing chaotic-evil threat in the grey ooze capital, officials said Sunday.
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