Underworld Updates

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 Lucius Brimstone PANDEMONIUM—Archduke Donnark Trumplethins announced late Saturday from his personal shrieking-board, CinderSocial, that the Infernal States had been fully prepared to unleash a weekend barrage on Emberan, only to graciously holster the pitchforks after several unnamed Furnace Belt powers begged the capital city of Brimstone-on-the-Potomac to “please not make everything worse before breakfast.”

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 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.

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE GALILEE — The village of Ashyaroun, once a handsome ridge-top mix of chapel bells, minaret calls, olive trees and red-tiled roofs near the razor-wire frontier of the Ashen Zion Dominion, is now mostly rubble, according to its scattered residents and local officials. The Dominion’s army says it has been striking tunnels,

By Lucius Brimstone CINDERPUR — After weeks of student fury hot enough to make the lesser lava pits file workplace complaints, the Realm’s Minister of Mis-Education, Dreadmendra Parchhand, resigned Saturday over repeated leaks of national exam scrolls used for university admissions and government sinecures. His departure satisfies one of the central demands of a swelling