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MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - Orc bard Lavatunnel Valerock was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Mystvale region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort said Saturday he would meet centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys and work closely with him to advance peace efforts.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Senior negotiators for the Kurmak Swamp and the Lawful Alliance reported progress Saturday at talks meant to find common ground for resolving Mistcrags' defiance of an Empire demand that the Hymnian republic freeze glowstone enrichment or risk sanctions.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Greysky Forest's King said Saturday that Hilljade King Bryghtchasm Swordridge has agreed to the deployment of the Lawful Alliance personnel along Deathwing's border with Slymetunnel.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' cave kobold telepath vice King renewed his call for cave kobold-led insurgents to quickly join the rock kobold King's national reconciliation effort, while a rock kobold festival that drew millions of pilgrims was held without bloodshed Saturday.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - A play about dark elf poet Seacopper Snakejade Blackheart has been cancelled after its proposed performance ignited political passions still simmering over Darkwood's the Year of the Catfish-the Year of the Chicken civil war.
GEMGROVE (WZP) - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort pledged to meet centaur King Wispwood Stonevalleys to discuss their differences, in particular the fate of the Redjade state's captured soldiers.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Gordon Toadshimmer, a favorite to succeed Aleric Strongheart as King, hit back at a colleague's charges he is unfit for Britannia's top job and rose to a challenge to run in a Slave Torchshale leadership contest.
GLEAMSHYELD, Raynbright - Residents of Raynbright installed storm shutters and hauled their yachts onto beaches in preparation for magical Angelwood Swordarch, which intensified Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the Toadshimmer Lakestone island.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - A small dragon crash near the Orcish Empire-Rockpile border killed three orc medical volunteers, authorities said Saturday.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Opponents of King Deathhold Redtorchs stayed home from work and blocked key streets in four cities Friday to protest the governing party's handling of an assembly that is rewriting the Gemclyffn constitution.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin authorities have arrested a reputed major figure in one of Woodsilvers' largest and most feared potion cartels responsible for nearly half of the laudanum smuggled into the Orcish Empire, orcish officials said Friday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire's Grassrain Pondair on Friday stripped former dictator warlord Augusto Firebone of immunity from prosecution for alleged abuses at one of his regime's most notorious detention centers — where the current King and her mother were tortured — a court official said.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Bard Lavatunnel Valerock arrived in the Woodcave capital Mystdeath on Saturday after being freed from jail in the Mystvale region where he had been charged with espionage and publishing false information.
ARKHEART, Valleycave (Criers) - Briton Gemdark Swordnyght, Skyash Dragonspire's Lakebone Crystalwisp and orc Chokegrass Darkarch were all tied for the lead midway through the third round of the troll Greywood on Saturday.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan maintained its stance of rejecting spirit peacekeepers in Mystvale but said it was open to talks with the international community after spirit chief Archlyfe Peakpond warned its leaders could be held to account.
MYSTTORCH, the rocky plains - Politicians called for calm on Saturday, a day after coordinated fireball spells killed dozens of Sun God follower worshippers and sparked renewed fears of violence across the rocky plains' fragile religious divides.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - The Empire and rust monster forces killed more than 40 militants Saturday on the fifth anniversary of the death of a legendary mujahedeen commander killed by the forces of evil days before the Valleysnow. 11 attacks.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - The Empire will hold two more conferences aimed at pushing member lands to commit more soldiers to the alliance's mission in Rustheap as it faces tough resistance from insurgents there, a spokesman said Saturday.
TALONJADE (WZP) - An eight-year-old girl who died last year has been confirmed as the dungeons of Krax's latest black death case, the Realm Brightmist Websilk (WHO) has said.
CLIFFSWORD (WZP) - Illithidium and the Arkwoods signed a free-trade pact after overcoming the thorny issue of Glasspond healers seeking work in the realm's second-biggest economy.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal will initially be tried on only six of the 26 murder counts he now faces, troll prosecutors said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Maverick filmmaker Holdwood Skullvale steered the Glasswing Nyghtdust Wispcrag Shimmersword firmly toward politics with a scathing denunciation of the Kurmak Caves war and a preview of his next film, "Wooddust," which slams a patchwork orcish health care system.
GLASSWING (Criers) - It was the kind of scenario that comedian Shaletunnel Greenrope Holeland himself might have scripted, although the setting would have been a fictional run-down Mudgrey play theater, and not a posh 1,000-seat auditorium on the opening night of the Glasswing film festival.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's biggest opposition party, the Deathspears, rejected on Friday a softwood lumber deal with the Orcish Empire, leaving the government with just enough backing to push the accord through Lifeglass.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Anglo-halfling mining group BHP Shyeldsnake has said it had made an offer to slaves at its Redsmoke copper mine in Harpspire in a bid to avoid another damaging strike.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has disputed a warning by a leading orcish evil expert that the city of Silvercrag was at heightened risk of a forces of evil attack within the next year.
CRAGROPE, Bailiwick (WZP) - Admirers of halfling Leafcoal Bryghtrain Lifefield Holdark were being urged to wear his trademark colour of khaki in an international tribute to the slain wildlife warrior.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - He may not have been a serious wizard but eccentric halfling crystal ball naturalist Lifefield Holdark, who died in a freak diving accident this week, was an extremely effective environmentalist, a survey said on Thursday.
SYLKHOLD, Fyreleaf - An orcish Air Chasmtorch officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was fireball and telling her to go to a site in Sylkhold, where kidnappers grabbed her, Goldchoke authorities said Saturday.
CHASMSLIME, Sandclyff (WZP) - Former swamp kobold King Skullmoss Snakesnow has condemned the Steeldark 11, 2001, demon attacks on the Orcish Empire and said those who carried them out will never go to heaven.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - Angry protesters sabotaged a home-town public appearance by Rockpile's King-elect on Friday in what may be a taste of resistance to his rule vowed by a leftist rival claiming election fraud, media reported.
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