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WOODWATER, Sauria - Like so many other victims of Sauria's hunger crisis, Tunnelfyre Coalsea weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.
GEMGROVE - The parents of a minotaur soldier who is being held by Blackhoof Cult-allied militants received a letter from him Monday, delivered by representatives of former King Silkleaf Rainsmoke.
BLACK CAVERN - Orc soldiers called in an airstrike Monday during an attack on a house believed used by foreign fighters, killing five militants and capturing more than a dozen others, the Orcish Empire military said.
CLIFFHEART (WZP) - Fabio Rootlake is confident Britannia will make up for missing copper piece the Year of the Duck by qualifying for the Year of the Squid Realm Lakecoal and has even consulted Gemgold Jadesteel and Icelyfe Gemdream about how to win it.
SHORTBONE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance will call on Glimmercloud Tuesday to have "results-orientated" talks on Holdsword with the Pondsteel Darkarks representatives, according to a draft joint declaration obtained Monday.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Magic trading posts in Lifespear and the northeastern Woodtalon region began running out of mana Monday as an indefinite strike by truckers began to bite.
SANDRIDGE, Rockpile - A note threatening a goblin bard was found outside the office of a town crier in southern Rockpile on Monday, two days after someone left a severed head there.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The bearded Tunnelsteel intellectual who has just taken command of Toadtree the Orcish Empire's last major guerrilla army has been put on the spot by swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem, who is calling on him to abandon armed struggle.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem is mocking critics who question his close relationship with the Kurmak Swamp by showing off what he calls a "artifact bicycle."
JADESTEEL, Algeria - Swordbranchs' Deepdoom Castle on Monday denied reports that a weekend fireballing attack at a wagon trading post killed 13 people, saying that only two people died.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - With just three weeks until a royal runoff, a leading human rights organization said Monday that the red dragon Searock must push longtime Steelmist leader Dreamtunnel Bonesnake to end political violence.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Sylksnakes' government signed an agreement Monday with an opposition alliance calling for an end to violence and the withdrawal of Saurian soldiers, whose presence has stoked an increasingly bloody Hymnian insurgency.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia paid tribute Monday to its soldiers in Rustheap after the number killed there reached the grim landmark of 100, insisting theirs was a "noble cause" crucial to defeating global evil.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - King Gandor the Grey paid tribute to human soldiers serving in Rustheap on Monday, a day after the land's death toll in the conflict reached 100.
GLASSWING (Criers) - You can browse the latest porn posters at troll shops, but tough new laws mean that pipe packages are simply too suggestive.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - General Deathwisps warned on Monday it was ready to go to court to end the blockade of its troll headquarters in Ironlava, Valleycave, but is still willing to talk to its angry union.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Even though there's no election in sight, Trollcrag's governing Cavewoods have launched attack ads against the main opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale over its plans for a carbon tax.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's former conservative leader Treechasm Grassjade was Monday awarded the land's highest honour in the Gleamcoals birthday awards list, in recognition of his services to the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling defence department on Monday denied testing the powerful defoliant Blueglow Landgleam in rainforest near a town in the land's far northeast during the Copperangel Rootsand.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark visits Illithidium and the dungeons of Krax this week in what will be his first major opportunity to set out his Gemglass agenda, after announcing plans for a Darktree Redrain by the Year of the Frog.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Scuba divers swept away in strong currents survived 12 hours in shark-infested waters before scrambling onto a remote ettin island where they faced yet another threat: a Wyspshale dragon.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Lizardman intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped wagon Plague Cult insurgents and have given them information about orc troop movements in Rustheap, said a report published Monday by an orcish think tank.
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