Author name: Evelyn Ember

By Evelyn Ember The wails began before dawn along the Ashpal–Frostfang border, where a collapsing glacier sent a wall of water, stone, and ancient ice roaring through the mountain passes with all the mercy of a tax auditor in brimstone heels. Officials in the charred republic of Cinderpal say more than 460 souls have perished, […]

By Evelyn Ember General Raktus Maldrake, the former commander of the Ash-Seraph Host convicted of genocide, mass murder, and other infernal war crimes during the Sundering of Cinderavia, has died at 84 while serving a life sentence, tribunal officials confirmed Tuesday. Maldrake died in the prison hospital of the Nether Tribunal in Haguefire, Lowlands of

By Evelyn Ember ASHEN SEOUL—President Lee Cinder-Myung of the Ember Peninsula moved quickly Tuesday to reassure nervous imps, generals, and bond traders that the realm’s sacred military pact with the United Hells of Avarice remains “solid as obsidian,” after Archduke Don Trumplethins abruptly ordered a “substantial” reduction in joint infernal drills hours before they were

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE CROWN — Days after one of the deadliest crossings in recent underworld memory, the ash-choked enclave of Brimstone Crown remains suspended between humanitarian catastrophe and political combustion. More than 70,000 desperate souls reportedly surged across the razor-fenced frontier from Cindermaw during the last week of Sulfurmoon, with over 140 perishing in

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE HARBOR — Hundreds of former allies of the Emberican war machine in Ashghanistan are discovering that even in Hell, a promise can be written in disappearing ink. Families who once served as interpreters, engineers, embassy aides, contractors, and guides for the Infernal States’ long campaign in the Graveyard Province are now

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE BAY — The resort peninsula of Cinderclaw, long advertised in the northern underworld as a place for beach umbrellas, cheap sulfur wine and patriotic photographs, is beginning to look less like a holiday prize and more like a smoking liability. For years, the Ashen Kremlin treated Cinderclaw as a jewel seized

BRIMSTONE BASIN — Flooding across the northeastern hell-province of Ashamora remained severe Monday, with officials confirming two more overnight deaths, raising the toll to 100 in what has become yet another annual pageant of preventable suffering dressed up as “seasonal weather.” Weeks of punishing monsoon rain have swollen the great Wrathmaputra River and its lesser

By Evelyn Ember The Brimstone Senate clawed its way back into session Monday for one final pre-recess sprint before vanishing into the mid-September smoke, with the confirmation of Soot Blanche, President Trumplethinskin’s nominee for Grand Prosecutor of the Underrealm, rising like a particularly legalistic sulfur plume over the chamber. Blanche attempted to cool the coals

By Evelyn Ember CINDERNAB, LOWER BRIMSTONE — Najjar Cinderhand came back to his apartment not to live, but to gather the remaining proof that he once had. A clerk in the Ember Parliament’s local office, he stepped over shattered glass, buckled doors and the gray powder of pulverized walls, sorting through what the bombardment had

By Evelyn Ember PANDEMONIUM CAPITOL — In a display of constitutional awakening so delayed it may require its own archeological dig, lawmakers in the Brimstone Chamber voted this week for a non-binding resolution urging the removal of Infernal forces from the widening war with Ashran, a conflict many members now insist they never technically authorized,