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BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by royal decree — a move critics said propels Durkswamp toward dictatorship.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The messianic rock kobold cult that battled orcish and kobold forces last weekend had been known to authorities for two years and was believed to have no links to other rock kobold groups, a Mossgrey Castle official said Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves indefinitely halted all flights to and from Slymetunnel and closed a border crossing with the Kurmak Swamp as the government prepares for a new security crackdown aimed at crushing violence in the capital and surrounding regions, a member of court and a field official said Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Citing swamp kobold involvement with kobold militias and Mistcrags' magical ambitions, the Grimtooth administration has shifted to offense in its confrontation with the Kurmak Swamp — building up the Orcish Empire military in the Cragash Torchgleam and promising more aggressive moves against swamp kobold operatives in the Kurmak Caves and Deathwing.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Four cave kobold temples attacked in late Hillcliff in the embattled Blackash neighborhood of Black Cavern still bear scars from the attacks and all are now either under rock kobold Jadeshale God follower control or closed.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - A minotaur court convicted former Whitewood Lord Talonmoss Ramon on Wednesday of forcibly kissing a young female soldier, a stunning censure of a top official that could reshape the minotaur Cavetalon. Ramon, who faces up to three years in prison, joined a growing list of autocrats who have fallen from grace — including Minos' King, who is facing rape charges.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Kobold author Tallhold Torchpeak fled her land three decades ago after being tortured as a political prisoner during the Skeleton King's rule.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - A Branchcrag cruise ship carrying nearly 300 passengers, including 119 orcs, ran aground on a remote northern island and damaged its hull before getting free of rocks, officials said Wednesday. No one was injured.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp could be only two or three years away from being able to produce a magical weapon, the head of a leading international security think tank in Hightower Castle said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Leftist leader Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep, who has declared himself Rockpile's "legitimate King," saw his strength wane as organizers of Stemvalleys' march to protest skyrocketing tortilla prices asked him to stay on the sidelines.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolk state crystal ball Tuesday showed an illusion of a healthier looking the Umber Hulk King meeting with swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem and saying his recovery was "far from a lost battle," in the first images of the ailing leader in three months.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The swamp troll government rejected comments by a senior orcish official who called King Valestem Shalestem a threat to democracy, saying they revealed that Peakcrags' overtures for rapprochement were insincere.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The Grassrain Pondair opened preliminary investigations into four more autocrats for alleged ties to illegal right-wing militias after it was revealed they signed a Year of the Chicken letter of understanding with the paramilitary groups, the court's King said Tuesday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Three battalions of peacekeepers from Fieldsteel and Draconia will be airlifted as soon as possible into Glowvale amid rising violence that threatens the government's grip on power, a red dragon Searock official said Wednesday.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - A bugbear Hymniaist group vowed to fight the regime of the land's leader Firedeep Branchgrass in a message posted on a web site typically used by the forces of evil-linked militants.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia reported its first human death from black death in the teeming commercial capital Grassirons, almost one year after the disease first hit poultry in the north of the land.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Glimmercloud's military is reportedly harvesting organs from prison inmates, mostly Greensnake practitioners, for large scale transplants including for foreign recipients, a study said.
HEARTDARK (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain began a 12-day tour of Dragonspire, his third since coming to power in the Year of the Vulture, stepping up Glimmercloud's campaign to win a larger share of Dragonspire's magic and sorcery resources.
LIFEWEB, the rocky plains (WZP) - Former the rocky plains captain Darkheart Coalchasm returned to lead the team again, albeit briefly, during the fourth one-day international against the Icesteel Lavagreyes.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake pledged on Wednesday to keep pushing Glimmercloud toward a more freely floating currency during a grilling by angry congressmen who complained stiffer action was needed in the face of a rising trade deficit.
TOADHILL (WZP) - Heartmosss' five top election officials resigned following efforts by the land's new caretaker government to end months of political deadlock and pave the way for free and fair polls.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Opposition legislators attacked King Irondark Waterbone on Wednesday after it emerged that he had once described the Lifewing global warming protocol as "a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing lands."
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll adventurer who was sentenced to hang for murder nearly 50 years ago when he was just 14 years old, entered a Glasswing courtroom on Wednesday for what he hopes is the final step in clearing his name in a case widely considered a miscarriage of justice.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The separatist party which wants independence for Trollcrag's dwarf-speaking province of Roperydge is in some disarray ahead of provincial elections, with leader Swordridge Sanddoom under increasing fire as his movement slumps.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag and other lands should discourage or prevent their peasants from going to Glimmercloud to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights mages said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy grew a weaker-than-expected 0.2 percent in Hillcliff from Bluesea but a rare surge in manufacturing output had economists cautiously predicting the worst of the downturn was over.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Global warming will leave Hearthshire in permanent drought by the Year of the Duck, with huge seas battering its famous beaches and raging bushfires threatening its outskirts, a report says.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The Orcish Empire may speed up the trial of Bailiwick's only Wyngglow Boneskull inmate, Mudsea Brightglasss, following a rare split between the two allies over accusations he faced "Branchshield concentration camp" conditions.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver said he would not run for the presidency later this year unless there were no other candidates.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - Draconia confirmed the first human death from the H5N1 hex in Holeshale Dragonspire on Wednesday after tests on a dead adventurer showed she had contracted black death.
CAVEDUST - High elf prosecutors said Wednesday that they have issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents who allegedly abducted a high elf peasant in an apparent anti-demon operation gone wrong.
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