Underworld Updates

By Vernon Vexfire FROSTFANG CITADEL — The Frostfang Dominion announced Saturday it will slap retaliatory tariffs on imports from the Brimstone Republic beginning Sept. 8, after President Donald Trumppyre’s administration began enforcing 50% duties on roughly 20 billion embers’ worth of Frostfang goods. Nothing says “stable alliance” like two neighbors setting each other’s barns on […]

By Vernon Vexfire Trade talks between the Brimstone Republic and the Frostbite Dominion went face-first into the furnace Friday night, collapsing just before the midnight deadline and triggering fresh 50% infernal tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Frostbite goods. The Ashgate Revenue Ward had already warned merchants, haulers, and other poor devils trying to

By Vernon Vexfire ASHEN KARBALITH — The Hellfire Republic brushed aside fresh threats from Brimstone House Overlord Donar Trumplegore this week, with Infernal Assembly Speaker Mahmud Cinderbagh declaring that the latest promise of “economic Doomsday” proves the Ember States and its Iron Halo allies have given up on winning a straight fight. Speaking at a

By Vernon Vexfire PANDÆMONIUM — The Pit’s ledgers coughed up another hairball this morning: the Infernal Treasury now says the realm’s accumulated debt has blown past 40 trillion soul-coins, a number so swollen even the accountants in the Seventh Circle have started drinking ink straight from the bottle. The capital has added more than 2

By Lucius Brimstone BRIMSTONE-SUR-BRINE — Two hours by shrieking rail from the sweltering traffic pits of Central Pandemonium lies a seaside town that seems almost offensively pleasant, a place where the air does not taste primarily of exhaust, impatience, and lightly toasted regrets. Set along the Ashen Channel, Brimstone-sur-Brine greets visitors with cool salt winds,

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 Lucius Brimstone The nine-month cruise of the HSS Ashen Lincoln may finally be nearing its merciful conclusion, as the HSS Gorge Wailings steams toward the Scorching Gulf to relieve it. Families of sailors aboard the Lincoln have been raising the sort of concerns naval brass traditionally file under “morale character-building”: mental strain, dwindling fresh

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 Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE-ABAD — Since the Ashen Turbanate retook the throne of Cinderstan on Aug. 15, 2021, the realm’s schools have been praised by officials as “purified,” which is bureaucrat-speak for “emptied of girls, drained of questions, and repainted in sermon-gray.” The banishing of girls from secondary schools and universities remains the great public