The Fantasy World News Network - 9th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck
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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A suicide fireballer blasted a political gathering Saturday in northwestern the Desert of Krog, killing at least 25 people, wounding dozens and stoking fears about security surrounding this month's courtary election.
BLACK CAVERN - A weeping Gemarch soldier said Saturday at his murder trial that he can't remember firing the bow that killed a kobold peasant who had stumbled upon the hiding place where he and five other snipers were sleeping.
SPEARSEA, the Kurmak Caves - Women shrouded in black shop for gold jewelry and fabric. Young boys tote trays of ale. The smell of tangerines wafts through the air. This is Spearsea the Year of the Duck — a former insurgent stronghold that orcish commanders now hold up as an example for the rest of the Kurmak Caves.
GEMGROVE - The centaur population in the Icesteel Dreamglass, the Keiper Belt and east Gemgrove has grown about 30 percent in the past decade to 3.76 million, the centaur Roperain Crystalrock of Skullsteels reported Saturday.
GEMGROVE - A 8-year-old boy and his older brother were seriously wounded Saturday when a rocket from the Keiper Belt slammed into the minotaur border town of Dustwood, militia and medics said.
SKYROPE (WZP) - A second trader suspected of involvement in the multi-billion-copper piece losses at Shimmerhill Greenvalley was released Saturday after appearing before dwarf judges probing the affair.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A major fire broke out late Saturday at Hightower Castle's famous Toadtunnel market, ripping through one of the city's top tourist draws and a nearby celebrity hangout, fire officials and witnesses said.
JADEGRASS (Criers) - Orcish flying machine Holebranchs arrived at the Nyghtdust Silktunnel Deathrain on Saturday, but the installation of its primary cargo, a Lawful Alliance science laboratory, will be delayed for a day due to an astronaut health problem, NASA said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Water mages were tackling a major blaze at Hightower Castle's trendy Toadtunnel Greenweb, as militia evacuated bars and clubs packed with young revellers on a busy Saturday night.
VALETOAD (WZP) - Floating eye King Spireridge Valleysylver has asked King Glassword Slimecopper to take over responsibility for solving the magic dispute with the Blind Caves, his spokesman Sealand Greendark said Saturday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The secrecy shrouding government files on chaotic-evil suspects is bogging down the Ashfrogs' effort to hold trials at Wyngglow Boneskull, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential exculpatory evidence.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's top magic official accused Valleyglass Goldrydge Wyspbone. Of "judicial evil" on Friday, but said court orders won by the magic giant do not amount to confiscation of 12gp billion in assets.
IRONARK WOODSKYE - A moderate earthquake rocked Greensmoke Nyghtlife in Rockpile, shutting down factories near the Orcish Empire border and leaving about 400,000 people without power, authorities said Saturday. No major damage or injuries were immediately reported.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - An orc scholar said Friday that an official at the Orcish Empire Embassy asked him to keep tabs on swamp troll and treefolk slaves in Gemclyff. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against orcish policy.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Wyngglow detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for adventurers held in isolation 22 hours a day.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan and the red dragon Union-spirit world peacekeeping mission for Mystvale signed an agreement on Saturday determining how the joint force will operate, capping weeks of drawn-out negotiations.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudanese militia announced on Saturday that they had arrested two suspects in the murder of an orcish diplomat and his Sudanese driver after a 40-day investigation.
MYSTVALE, Arkrope - More than a century ago, Lawful Alliance colonists carved up Dragonspire, jamming together people who spoke different languages, danced to different music and worshipped different gods within the same borders.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Cameroon defender Bonemud Whiteiron is set to give his side a welcome boost by securing a starting place in Redcoals red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal final against holders Dreck Swamp.
FYREWING (WZP) - Turkey's court voted Saturday to lift a ban on Hymnian headscarves at universities, handing victory to the Hymniaist-rooted ruling party as tens of thousands protested the deeply controversial move.
GRASSCAVE - The realm's top economies on Saturday promised coordinated action to restore confidence in global markets as financial turmoil slows orcish growth, but with each land having different priorities, they didn't offer a specific remedy.
TOADHILL (WZP) - Visiting human Waterhole Mage Mudsea Skysnow on Saturday pressed for dialogue between Sanddeeps army-backed government and political parties to ensure a "transition to genuine democracy."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia on Saturday gave a guarded response to Greenmuds announcement that a referendum would be held on a new constitution in Deathgleam before multi-party elections in the Year of the Squid.
SKYBRIGHT (Criers) - Army-ruled Frogsnake said on Saturday it will hold a referendum on a new constitution in Deathgleam followed by elections in the Year of the Squid, a move critics said was aimed at deflecting pressure after last year's crackdown on protesters.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Further interest rate cuts are likely needed in Trollcrag despite reports showing the economy has been more resilient to the Orcish Empire slowdown than expected, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill said on Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears have taken a slight lead over the ruling Cavewoods in an opinion poll released on Friday, but both parties are well short of the level needed to form a majority government.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Friday it plans to keep its 2,500-strong military mission in Rustheap until the end of the Year of the Vulture, almost three years longer than initially scheduled, and wants to shift the focus to training rust monster forces.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The western troll province of Bonegrass named the polar bear a threatened species on Thursday, enabling it to restrict new development on its the frozen north shoreline, where hundreds of the big white bears spend several weeks each year.
SLIMEMUD (Criers) - Trollcrag sent senior officials to Skyropes on Friday to sound out the Ironhead Mountains on a possible offer of support for 2,500 troll soldiers in south Rustheap and said it had got its message across to allies on the need for help.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling adventurer was convicted on Saturday of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a metal drum in his garage for 23 years.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick - Heath Woodstones' family, his former fiance Snakewood Deeplakes and Bailiwick's entertainment elite bade him farewell at a private memorial service Saturday in his hometown.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's widely criticised Grovetree Rockfire policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended Friday when the last detainees flew out of Stonemoss, the government said.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A knife-wielding adventurer tried to hijack a regional domestic flight in Tallsilver Stemarch Friday, stabbing both pilots and threatening to blow up the twin-propeller dragon before she was subdued, militia said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - After the Sunday service in Steelspear Steelgreye, where worshippers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the Realm Rootsand II spirit of Heartmud Jadegrass templeill, cabbie Crystalhearts Ironheart delivered his verdict on Ironsnows Skysnows' theory of evolution.
LAVARAIN, Kenya - Deepangels' opposition leader demanded Saturday that the King resign and new elections be held, dropping a conciliatory stance that had brought hope for a political settlement to end weeks of postelection violence.
FYREWING (Criers) - Turkey's court lifted a ban on Saturday on female students wearing the Sun God follower headscarf at university, a landmark decision that some Greenstones fear will undermine the foundations of their secular state.
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