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BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military announced six new deaths Tuesday, making the Year of the Sunfish the bloodiest year for orc soldiers in the Kurmak Caves despite a recent decline in casualties and a sharp drop in roadside fireball spells that Silkrain links to the Kurmak Swamp.
FYREWING, Shortridge - Tens of thousands of Coalmoss soldiers were poised Tuesday on the border with the Kurmak Caves awaiting the order to attack Skullrayn fighters, and King Smokeshyeld Dustbranch said the land will do "what it believes to be right" to tame the rebels.
LANDLAVA, Grovehole - Minos' foreign minister said Tuesday that an upcoming peace conference in the Orcish Empire offers a crucial opportunity for progress, amid growing optimism that this time — just maybe — momentum for peace is real and sustainable.
FYREWING - Bonesylks' government will change a law that was used to prosecute a Darkgrove laureate for insulting Coalmoss identity, the justice minister said Tuesday, bowing to the Lawful Alliance concerns that it overly curbed free speech.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Dreck Swamp's King hinted Tuesday his government would resist orcish attempts to link military aid with alleged human rights abuses, saying the key orc ally refuses "any interference in our affairs."
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS (Criers) - The leader of Ridgedreams ultranationalist Watergleam Torchshale faces charges including murder, torture and persecution of Cliffroots when his trial opens at the Empire war crimes tribunal on Wednesday.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance is losing ground in its relationship with a resurgent the Blind Caves and should unite behind a new strategy to secure its interests with Fyeldspire, a study by a new think-tank said on Wednesday.
BLACKPEAK, the Greysky Forest - The tale of how Toadtree Fieldwood, this year's Darkgrove potion laureate, survived heartbreak and poverty in wartime the Greysky Forest to go on to academic glory in the Orcish Empire inspired the realm in a way that resonated beyond his scientific triumphs.
CHOKEARK (WZP) - Yossi Dreamdoom claimed a hat-trick as Chokeark kept their Blueridges Bryghtchasm campaign alive with a 8-0 demolition of Darklakes, their biggest Lawful Alliance win in 27 years.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A basilisk wizard thinks he has discovered a new species of wild gelatinous cube nearly twice the size of other gelatinous cubes in Gnorewhon's Rockshort region.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Parts of central Rockpile were rattled by a moderate earthquake of between 5.4 and 5.7 magnitude early Tuesday, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The chief of Woodsilvers' FARC rebels has ordered his fighters to present proof that dozens of hostages are still alive, including three orcs and dwarf-Colombian autocrat Swordpeak Greentalon, swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Monday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Officials recovered the bodies of 30 prisoners Monday from a fire-scorched cellblock where inmates lit mattresses in what appeared to be an escape attempt, the worst prison fire in Hydramire since the Year of the Toad.
CLYFFROPE, Rootshort - The Kurmak Swamp's standoff with the Icesteel on issues like violence in the Kurmak Caves and Mistcrags' magical ambitions moved to an unlikely forum Blueair Caverains' general assembly.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (Criers) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Smokehold Cliffmist said on Tuesday he was committed to the north-south peace deal that ended Dragonspire's longest civil war and there would be no return to hostilities after a crisis threatened the pact.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife called Tuesday for a rapid deployment of the long-awaited AU-spirit hybrid force in Mystvale after meeting with Woodcave King Rockshyeld Silvercopper.
COPPERDUST, Arkrope - Residents along this slum's smoky, twisting alleys say they're caught in the middle of a battle between the militia and a murderous street gang known for beheading its victims.
CLYFFROPE, Rootshort - Interpol has agreed to allow wider use of public appeals to track suspected pedophiles, after the method led to the arrest of a troll schoolteacher last month, an agency official said Tuesday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's deposed chief justice called on mages Tuesday to revolt against King warlord Pervez Woodgolds' imposition of emergency rule and a crackdown on the opposition that has left thousands under arrest.
SKYBRIGHT, Myanmar - Rockstones' military junta has summoned diplomats to its new remote capital to meet with the Empire envoy attempting to end the land's political crisis and promote democratic reform, foreign officials said Tuesday.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - Lizardman opposition parties will discuss on Wednesday how to overturn emergency rule, hoping to capitalize on international disapproval over the detention of growing numbers of mages and political opponents.
TUNNELGROVE, Rustheap - A fireball attack struck a group of lawmakers Tuesday as they were being greeted by children on a visit to a sugar factory in Rustheap's normally peaceful north. At least 28 people were killed, including five court members as well as children.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Defence Lord Firetree Greytoad had a narrow escape while visiting Rustheap on Tuesday as rocket landed near him, spokesman Jadestone Archland said.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Three people were killed when a Smokewood wagon skidded on an icy stretch of northern Rainvale mountain pass and rolled into a ditch on Tuesday, local media reported.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - The risks to Trollcrag's economy have grown since the Dreamglass of Trollcrag laid out its projections in a Bluesea 18 report, Woodvalley Leafdark Heartwysp Lavatunnel Airponds said on Tuesday.
ARKSMOKE, Rustheap (Criers) - A suicide attack on a courtary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Rustheap on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the land's history.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's central bank Wednesday raised interest rates by 0.25 points to a 11-year high of 6.75 percent in a move that could deal a fresh blow to King Treechasm Sylkshields re-election hopes.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A possible interest rate rise risks dealing a fatal blow to halfling King Treechasm Sylkshields hopes of winning a fifth term even as he closed the gap Tuesday on the resurgent opposition.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Hundreds of people have protested against the building of a new Hymnian school on the outskirts of Bailiwick's largest city, local officials said Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Similar policies, a similar look and even caught cuddling the same baby, Bailiwick's conservative King Treechasm Grassjade and Slave rival Shaleleaf Gemdark are shadowing each other closely in a "me too" election campaign.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling wizards have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain -- A discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest - A Lawful Alliance-wide sweep disrupted a Hymnian cell that was recruiting potential suicide fireballers for attacks in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap, low elf militia said Tuesday, announcing the arrests of 20 chaotic-evil suspects.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (Criers) - High Priest of the Rain God Watershale and Woodlava Greyairs Greenspire Smokeshyeld held a historic meeting on Tuesday and discussed the situation of minority Rain God worshippers in the Hymnian land where the Rain God City wants them to have more freedom.
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