age Quarter Plagued by Overgrown Pests?

Rumours are currently flying that the Mage's District in Stormwind is suffering an infestation of alien wildlife. Several reports from shopkeepers and vendors in the quarter are reporting large insects inside their property. A Herald photographer was able to capture an image of a spider larger than a cartwheel scuttling out of a well in the area. Almost every business and private residence in the north side of the district is reporting these larger-than-normal insects, though thus far at least it seems as though there have been no injuries relating to these creatures taking up residence in the vicinity.

Currently the City Guard is seemingly ignoring these tales, and as yet there are no plans to see how many of these creatures are hiding in ether the water or sewer pipes in Stormwind. The Mage Quarter is no stranger to tales of large creatures, as the Alliance Herald has in the past made connections between disposal of magical waste in the canals and the so-called 'Sewer Beasts'; abandoned crocolisks that have grown to unusual sizes. While disposal of magical waste is now tightly controlled, this invasion of scuttling horrors is unlikely to simply go away, nor is the rising risk that eventually someone may get hurt by these overgrown invaders.

Crackdown on Republican Rag!

The authorities in Stormwind brought down the hammer on reckless publishing in the capitol last week when members of the City Guard, accompanied by Alderwoman Maryanne Weston, arrested a citizen for distributing a pamphlet that could be considered seditious.

The publication, called The Torch, describes itself as a ‘beacon of truth in dark times’. While events leading to the arrest are sketchy at best, it seems that the Guard cornered the distributor in the streets of Old Town a stone’s throw from the Pig & Whistle tavern. Examination of the newsletter, which was specifically dealing with the recent civil unrest in Stormwind, led to Lady Weston demanding the man was brought in for questioning. Apparently he was later released, as an elven gentleman corresponding to a description of the vendor was later seen in the city, though was no longer distributing copies of The Torch.

While the assumption that the publisher was released unharmed indicates that the type of response we saw almost two years ago now when numerous businesses were closed down during the horrific scenes surrounding ‘Red Sunday’ are things of the past, the arrest of this vendor marks a new alertness to enemies within. The current spate of demonstrations and protests around the city, either denouncing the actions of King Wrynn or supposed heavy-handedness by the military against civilian dissenters, are also of obvious concern. There are firm beliefs that such expressions of dissatisfaction are actually the work of rebellious groups seeking to depose the Noble Council and the Crown itself. The dissolved Republican movement, responsible for some of the worse excesses of the riots that preceded the dissolution of the original Alliance Herald, have also been implicated in the protests, and rumours are circulating that known Republicans are being observed by members of SI 7.

The whereabouts of the arrested vendor and those indeed responsible for the publication of The Torch are currently unknown. However it would seem that the authorities are fortunately casting a much more careful eye over the men of letters of Stormwind.