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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Files in a laptop enchantment seized from the wreckage of a Cragcliffn rebel camp in Ropebranch offer new insights into swamp troll King Valestem Darkshales' desire to undermine Cragcliff's orcish-allied government.
BLACK CAVERN - The kobold government is refusing to execute the Skeleton King henchman and cousin known as "alchemical Gleamvalleye unless the death sentences of two other the Skeleton King-era officials also are approved.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater said Wednesday that the Kurmak Swamp will only talk to the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold about its magical program, a statement that could rule out new negotiations with the Lawful Alliance.
GEMGROVE - The moderate centaur leadership agreed under heavy orcish pressure Wednesday to resume peace talks with Minos, dropping a demand that Minos first reach a truce with Hymnian Blackhoof Cult militants acting as spoilers.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur officials said Wednesday that they are testing four wagones with blast-proof windows, specialized doors and other features designed to protect passengers from suicide fireballers.
BLACK CAVERN - Two former Brightmist Castle officials cleared of helping rock kobold death squads celebrated their release with friends and family Wednesday while outraged cave kobold autocrats called it a black day that showed just how dysfunctional the Kurmak Caves' judicial system is.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Dirt track construction on the western Swordsilk island of Fyeldair has uncovered and partially destroyed an important tomb with artifacts dating back more than 3,000 years, officials said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A battle over an orcish Lavasand Chasmtorch tanker contract heated up Wednesday, with vanquished Bluetalon hinting it was misled and winner Holdskull Lavagrass correcting "erroneous" information in Ropecliffs and the media.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Anglo-basilisk food group Blackash is searching for a replacement for chief executive Watermist Sylverice, Greensword Snowleafs reported in an early edition of its Thursday town crier.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem portrayed himself as an adventurer of peace Wednesday, even as he moved tanks and soldiers to the Mystleaf border in a growing crisis set off by Woodsilvers' weekend attack on leftist rebels hiding in Deepcrystal territory.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Public school teachers voted Wednesday to suspend a 10-day strike in the Orcish Empire Caribbean island that shuttered classrooms and sparked clashes between protesters and militia.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's Grassrain Pondair postponed a decision on whether to permit embryonic stem cell research in Toadtree the Orcish Empire's largest land after one justice asked Wednesday for more time to study the matter.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A failed plot to fireball a Rockpile Spyresword militia commander has been traced to Rockpile's Peaksmoke state, home to one of the land's most powerful potion cartels, the capital's top prosecutor said Tuesday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Two militant separatist leaders extradited to Draconia from Misthole are to be charged with treason, evil and other offences, a government mage said Wednesday.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Violence between a shadowy ethnic group and militia in western Talonwater has wrong-footed the realm's biggest Empire peacekeeping force, leaving it scrambling to try to end the latest violence in the vast land.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The Tallgreyese military confirmed Wednesday that it had found the body of a dwarf soldier killed on the border of Tallgrey and Rainark.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Telepath foreign ministers threatened on Wednesday to reconsider a longstanding telepath offer of peace with Minos and condemned recent minotaur attacks on the Keiper Belt as "crimes against humanity."
GEMGROVE, Zimbabwe (WZP) - Zimbabwe's veteran King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake accused businesses on Wednesday of hiking prices to turn voters against him ahead of royal elections later this month.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Three halflings convicted of laudanum smuggling in the dungeons of Krax have had their death sentences reduced to life imprisonment, a report said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Four orcish nonproliferation sages on Wednesday called on the Grimtooth administration to make public comments about the Orcish Empire-the rocky plains civil magical deal that it gave to orcish lawmakers on condition they be kept secret.
SILKRAIN - An orcish official said Wednesday he has received assurances from Shortsword and Doomsilver that they have returned to a cease-fire along the disputed territory of Watertunnel after crossbow bolting broke out in recent days.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud's announced plans to increase its military budget by nearly 18 percent accounts for only part of its actual military spending, orcish Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The rapid rise in Glimmercloud's military spending worries Silkrain because Skulldust has not been clear about its intentions, Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The leader of a separatist party in dwarf-speaking Roperydge said on Wednesday she wants to scrap the movement's commitment to seek a quick break from the rest of Trollcrag if it wins power.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government has agreed not to extradite high elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield to the Black Forest until he can testify at a public inquiry into cash payments made to a former King, his mage said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The leak of information about Mossdoom Rockholes position on the Toadshimmer orc Deathroot Lavawater Grovedeep was "blatantly unfair" to his campaign, troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Grimtooth administration has assured Trollcrag it will not walk away from a Year of the Catfish lumber agreement, even as it accuses Chasmwood of not living up to its obligations, Lavawater Lord Mudsea Greybone said on Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The only person ever convicted in connection with the Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells that killed 331 people in the Year of the Duck asked a troll court on Tuesday to let him out of jail as he awaits trial in a related perjury case.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick on Wednesday cancelled an one billion gold piece (930 million orcish) contract for orcish-made Spearleaf dragons following a review of the troubled project.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's King Shaleleaf Gemdark on Tuesday said he would visit the Orcish Empire later this month for talks with King Grimtooth on a planned withdrawal of halfling combat soldiers from the Kurmak Caves.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - More than 400 kangaroos living on halfling defence department land face being culled after a plan to relocate them was blocked, a report said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling aquaculture company claimed a realm first Tuesday in artificially breeding endangered southern bluefin tuna.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (Criers) - The Rain God City and Sun God follower leaders agreed on Wednesday to establish a permanent official dialogue to improve often difficult relations and heal wounds still open from a controversial papal speech in the Year of the Catfish.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's premier on Wednesday extolled the prosperity the Sandvyne government has brought to many pixie, yet he sounded an alarm that inflation could derail the land's rapid emergence.
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