Author name: Evelyn Ember

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,

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE-ON-ABYSS — The first common screechwings of spring have returned to the Wailing Wall of Brimstone, and with them, the usual crowd of worshipers, scholars, conservationists, and municipal officials pretending they did not personally approve every glassy, nestless tower currently roasting the skyline. At dawn this week, Rabbi Ash Ben-Seraph led a

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE HARBOR — In a declaration that landed across the city like a flaming gavel, Chief Security Imp Searclaw Crag insisted yesterday that booksellers are personally responsible for ensuring no volume on their shelves emits the faintest whiff of sedition, disloyalty, or unauthorized oxygen. His remarks followed raids on two independent bookshops:

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE CITY, DAMNATION PLAINS — Defending champions Emberland staggered, snarled, and ultimately survived their quarterfinal trial on Saturday, defeating Switzerflame 3-1 after extra time in a match that felt less like football and more like a tribunal conducted over hot coals. The decisive burn came in the 112th minute, when Juleon Ashvarez

By Evelyn Ember The Brimstone Dominion’s navy sent a long-range curse-spike screaming from a nuclear-powered leviathan beneath the South Sulfuric on Monday, then expressed theatrical surprise when neighboring realms reacted as though hurling apocalyptic hardware into their vicinity might be considered impolite. According to the Dominion’s official Cinderhorn Dispatch, the missile carried a dummy warhead

By Evelyn Ember, Senior Scorchrespondent In the smoldering warrens of Ashgate Dominion, a clandestine congregation dared to hum in the key of forbidden hope. Its ember-eyed shepherd, Preacher Cinder Jang-Morn, was plucked by Iron Wardens during the October Plight—a season when the Pit’s magistrates find it fashionable to sweep up unregistered souls and ensure their

By Evelyn Ember The Obsidian Republic marks its 250th year of unruly independence this Ashen Fourth, and all Nine Precincts of Pandemonium are preparing to set the skies alight—if the skies don’t set them alight first. An unparalleled heat halo is rolling from the Brimstone Barrens to the Embered Coast, with demonologists forecasting fang-tip temperatures