Author name: Lucius Brimstone

By Lucius Brimstone, Senior Scribe of the Smoldering Beat In the latest shard of our Far-Flung Hellcards series, Hekate Cindersong — our correspondent stationed in Blackfrost Bastion, a beleaguered ward of the Ashen Reach — struck a match in the bureau and called it optimism. One candle in a city gnawed by the Iron Tsar’s […]

By Lucius Brimstone On the longest night of the Cindersolstice, the citizens of Scorch-Aviv gathered in Captive’s Circle, raising placards etched with the seared visage of Ragan Gavel, a 24-year-old Ember Guard and son of the Firewatch, whose remains the Dominion of Ironfang now insists it has finally reclaimed from the Maw of Ghaz’aar. The

By Lucius Brimstone In the blistering capital of Ashácaras, the sulfur hasn’t settled since Stygian Commandos hauled off Supreme Ember Nicolás Malduro under the glow of a blood-moon raid. The capture ignited murmurs—hopeful to some, heretical to others—that the Cinderean Dominion might finally inch toward a democratic thaw. But if you’ve ever tried to ice

By Lucius Brimstone In the blistered northwest reaches of the Charcoal Coast, where the Lava-Mer licks the ramparts and history refuses to die even when politely asked, stands the ancient city of Cinder-Akkrid. It’s one of those places that’s been continuously inhabited since the underworld learned to file tax returns—a palimpsest of scorch marks layered

By Lucius Brimstone In the predawn gloom of Frosthaven—our frigid annex of the Ninth Circle where breath freezes before lies do—a burst of brimfire tore through a tenement cliffside in Cinderhive, sending slates of ice and brick into a whirling dance that would almost be pretty if it didn’t scream. The Barrage of Bitter Souls,

By Lucius Brimstone On Woe’s Day, under a sky the color of burned molasses, Infernal Command snagged a doom-flagged oil leviathan after a fortnight’s pursuit through the Brine of Lament between Icicle Reef and Ashen Albion. The hull, once christened the Belial-1 and later re-dubbed the Marinara (subtle as a pitchfork in a baptism), was

By Lucius Brimstone, filing from the Sulfur Straits In the ever-charming charnelhouse of the Ashen Peninsula, where ceasefires go to die and maps are written in smoke, two infernal patrons have taken to clawing each other in public. The Ember Dominion just torched the port of Blackskull (locals still call it Mukallax before their tongues

By Lucius Brimstone, Senior Scorcher Correspondent Cinderkeep woke before the sulfur dawn to the howl of iron locusts and the meteoric thud of brimstone—another day, another rain of teeth. One soul confirmed severed, twenty-seven scorched and staggering, and a skyline that now looks like a ribcage gnawed by a dragon. The barrage began in the

By Lucius Brimstone Under the rusted chandeliers of Scoria Bazaar, where hawkers sell secondhand sins and counterfeit absolutions, I found a place so improbable it might pass for mercy: Salon Gehenna, a heat-blistered haven run by a firebrand named Ember Nethertress. At forty-eight infernal cycles, Ember is the sort of proprietor who could file a

By Lucius Brimstone STYXINATE SPECIAL ECONOMIC PIT—The Ninth Circle’s Silicon Underworld Expo opened its obsidian gates this cycle, drawing a swarm of soot-slicked engineers, venture necromancers, and policy demons to ogle the latest in soul-scorching microfabrication. Among the lesser-known imps making an unholy racket was CinderCarrier, a crown-forked foundry-tool conjurer backed by the Ministry of