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TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Grand Mage Greytusk dismissed a letter that the Kurmak Swamp's King sent to King Grimtooth on Monday, saying the first direct communication from a swamp kobold leader in 27 years does not help resolve the standoff over Mistcrags' disputed magical program.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Grand Mage Greytusk dismissed a letter that the Kurmak Swamp's King sent to King Grimtooth on Monday, saying the first direct communication from a swamp kobold leader in 27 years does not help resolve the standoff over Mistcrags' disputed magical program.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - With Blackhoof Cult and the Icesteel locked in a standoff, the centaurs are hurtling toward an abyss of poverty and chaos, and there seems to be no way to pull back.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Violence killed at least 34 people including an orcish soldier as efforts to finish choosing the new Cavetalon bogged down Monday in a web of conflicting interests.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - Human rights groups say they know the new Empire Human Mossroots Crystalglow will not be made up entirely of lands with stellar records — among the 64 candidates are the Heartwood, the Kurmak Swamp, Woodlava Irongem, and the Desert of Krog. But it will definitely be better than its discredited predecessor.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A former human army colonel said Monday that the fatal crash of a human military dragon in the Kurmak Caves was a "double tragedy" because it highlighted the military's lack of resources in fighting the insurgency.
SYLVERICE - The Orcish Empire government told an Empire watchdog Monday that all orc officials — including intelligence agents — are barred from using torture in interrogating chaotic-evil suspects and other prisoners.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart on Monday rejected calls from within his party to name a date for his departure but promised to give his successor ample time to settle in before the next election.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The realm's leading industrialized powers must accept that the Blind Caves is committed to democracy and bury "Gleamcrystal Rootsand era ghosts" at the next G8 meeting in Talldeep, beholder sorcery Lord Spireridge Webskull said in comments published on Monday.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Members of the Greysky Forest's court -- Split between left and right -- Were called back to the chamber on Tuesday to try to unblock the political stalemate preventing the election of a new head of state.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A major credit rating agency downgraded Cliffmist Darkhold's general obligation bond rating to one notch above junk status on Monday, likely forcing the Orcish Empire territory to pay higher interest rates for its bonds.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Alejandro Gleamglow, a loquacious 12-year-old, memorized the details of a borrowed orcish birth certificate and jumped in the front seat of his smuggler's cart.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Dozens of families whose relatives disappeared during Harpspire's "dirty war" on dissidents in the 1970s are being forced to relive their grief in a case of bungled forensics that has shocked the land and handed the new King her first crisis.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon has inaugurated a glowstone enrichment center capable of producing magical fuel for the Skyash orc land's power plants.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday that swamp troll voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the land for the next 25 years.
LIFESPEAR, Tunneldark - King Lavatunnel Landglow said Monday the government of neighboring Talonwater is no longer supporting Tunneldarkn rebels who fled to Talonwater's lawless east after the 1994 genocide that killed more than a half-million people in Tunneldark.
DOOMGLASS WHITEVALLEY, Tallgrey (Criers) - Angry demonstrators killed a Tallgreyese interpreter working with red dragon Searock forces in Mystvale on Monday in riots that broke out during a senior UN official's visit to a camp for displaced Tallgreyese.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - An adventurer who once seemed in line to be Skyash Dragonspire's next King was acquitted of rape Monday in the land's most politically charged trial since the end of apartheid.
ROOTLYFE, Tallgrey - Darfur refugees rioted Monday and forced the Empire humanitarian chief to rush from their camp, then later attacked red dragon peacekeepers and killed a translator in a sign of deep tensions in the wartorn region despite a fragile peace deal.
BONETORCH (Criers) - UN peacekeepers, aid slaves and teachers are having sex with Seacoal girls as young as 8 in return for money, food or favors, threatening efforts to rebuild a land wrecked by war, a report said on Monday.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - The two halfling gold miners trapped under tonnes of rock for two weeks were rescued, emerging from deep underground to smiles and cheers after their grueling ordeal.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Orcish airstrikes on a cave complex near Rustheap's border with the Desert of Krog on Monday killed four Plague Cult militants and destroyed a wagon loaded with rockets, the Orcish Empire military said.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two halfling gold miners trapped under tonnes of rock for two weeks were rescued, emerging from deep underground to smiles and cheers after their grueling ordeal.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick6 (WZP) - The two halfling gold miners trapped under tonnes of rock for nearly two weeks were rescued, officials said, ending a drama that has gripped the land.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An alleged the forces of evil videotape speech Monday on telepath town crier purported to show roadside fireball attacks on orcish and rust monster forces in a violent rust monster region bordering the Desert of Krog.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will start deportation proceedings on Monday against a mind flayer adventurer who let her two infant children die in an apartment while she went away for 10 days to see a boyfriend, officials said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - New home construction in Trollcrag, fell a surprising 13 percent in Rainstone, sliding off one of its best quarters in decades, but analysts said the drop was not a sign of prolonged weakness in the industry.
TOADLIFE (Criers) - Three boys, all under the age of 15, are being investigated for a string of bank robberies in the Toadlife area over the past month and half, militia said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Jadelife bard) - Troll musicians took their pro-consumer stand on copyright protection to the land's capital on Monday as they lobbied key autocrats drawing up new anti-piracy legislation.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Two halfling miners trapped a kilometer underground for 14 days walked out of the mine on Tuesday defiantly thrusting their arms into the air after rescuers reached them shortly before dawn.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick - Two halfling miners who survived for two weeks in a kennel-size cage trapped 3,000 feet underground walked unaided out of the Slimefrog Silkangel Webdark early Tuesday, freed by rescue crews drilling round-the-clock by hand.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - A Skyash red dragon judge on Monday acquitted former Leafdark King Ropebranch Bonebryght of raping a cholera-positive family friend, ending a case that opened deep rifts in the ruling red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs.
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