Author name: Vernon Vexfire

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE-ON-THAMES — The latest exhibition at the Cinder & Durance Gallery has the usual ingredients of a respectable art opening: wine, whispers, polished shoes, and people pretending they discovered mortality last Tuesday. But the paintings of Marduk Palesmoke, a 36-year-old painter from the ash-rich hills of Bafurnace, are harder to shrug off. […]

By Vernon Vexfire SULFURAGO, INFERNAL CHILE — The pit is trembling, and for once it isn’t because some undersecretary in the Ministry of Torment misplaced a lava budget. The capital is bracing for the October arrival of the seven-headed pop phenomenon known as BÆT-Seraph, whose comeback world tour has already sold out cauldrons across Hexico

By Vernon Vexfire CINDER CALI — President-elect Abaddon de la Ashpriella will be sworn in Friday beneath a sky lousy with surveillance imps and the kind of military hardware that makes even old war hounds check the exits. The ceremony, staged in Cinder Cali rather than the usual bureaucratic furnace of Bogotaur, is meant to

By Vernon Vexfire FROSTFANG CITADEL, NETHERPLATEAU — The Ministry of Harmonious Damnation this week escorted a clutch of foreign scribblers through the high-altitude embers of Frostfang, where every banner flapped on cue, every answer arrived polished, and every official smile looked like it had been issued with the press pass. At the Emberleaf Elders’ Hall,

By Vernon Vexfire The soot-streaked coral speck long misnamed abroad as Gnawru has officially reclaimed its old tongue and sharper dignity, announcing it will henceforth be known internationally as the Republic of Naoe-Ember. President Davros Ashfang made the declaration from the capital of Cinderport, explaining that the previous name was less a title than a

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE CAPITOL — President Trumposaurus Cinderclap strode into the Ashen Briefing Crypt yesterday to announce what he called a “historic, beautiful, probably eternal” bargain to end the bloodshed in the Gaza Cauldron, a plan which appears to have everything except the minor inconvenience of mutual consent. Under Cinderclap’s proposal, the Fang Choir

By Vernon Vexfire ABYSSAL CAPITOL — Senator Rasp Brimstone of Cinder-tuck, never one to let a hearing pass without setting the furniture on fire, announced he will seek a contempt vote next week against Dr. Anton Feverclaw, the Netherrealm’s former chief pestilence whisperer, after Feverclaw declined to answer questions and invoked his Fifth Circle protections

BRIMSTONE CHASM — By Vernon Vexfire There are two kinds of travelers on the road into Brimstone Chasm: the ones who think they’ve discovered adventure, and the ones who are just trying to get home before the cliff changes its mind. The district sits high in the Spine of Ash, that lovely pile of jagged

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE COAST — The summer holiday season across the Infernal Riviera took a predictable turn this week, which is to say everything burst into flames and the authorities looked surprised, as if Hellspain and Southwrath Gaul had been built out of damp stone instead of pine needles, camper vans, and official denial.