Underworld Updates

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 Vernon Vexfire PHLEGETHONDELPHIA — In a ceremony thick with brimstone, bad coffee, and the usual academic throat-clearing, Ember Wang of Guilotine-on-the-Styx became the first Cathayan woman — and only the third woman in nine miserable decades — to win the Cauldron Medal, the infernal realm’s most worshipped trinket for mathematics. The award, handed out

By Lucius Brimstone INFERNOBLEM — Each spring, just as the faithful press their petitions into the ancient cracks of the Wailing Furnace, another set of supplicants arrives with less parchment and considerably more shrieking: the ash-swifts, small migratory birds with the aerodynamic confidence of unpaid debt collectors. For thousands of years, these soot-winged travelers have

By Lucius Brimstone NEW DAMNATION — Supporters of the youth-led Cockroach Crusade vowed Tuesday to continue their protest in the capital’s Ash Circle encampment, despite Infernal Guard officers greeting their attempted march toward the House of Eternal Paperwork with tear-smoke, batons, and the sort of civic warmth usually reserved for tax collectors and heretics. Hundreds

By Vernon Vexfire CINDERGRAD — In yet another cheerful reminder that diplomacy is often just arson with better stationery, Tsar Vladmir Charputin of the Ashen Kremlin received Sulfuria’s foreign minister, Choe Scorch-Hui, on Sunday for a meeting that neither side bothered to explain in any useful earthly—or infernal—language. According to state horn-blowers in Cindergrad, Charputin

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 Lucius Brimstone BRIMFIRE CITY — After spending more than two decades of the last quarter-century hurling thunderbolts across the Ashen Crescent, the Grand Republic of Overworldia has once again discovered that while it can vaporize a palace before breakfast, it remains somewhat less gifted at producing stable politics by lunch. The pattern is familiar

By Lucius Brimstone BRIMNORTH WASTES — Security forces in Brimstan’s smoke-choked northwest carried out a series of intelligence-led raids on militant dens this week, killing 24 suspected insurgents and hauling away enough weapons to make even a mid-level war demon blush, according to the Infernal General Staff and local underworld officials. The raids came after

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:

SOOT KOK — Authorities in the sulfur-choked commercial pit of Soot Kok raided two independent bookstores Wednesday, hauling away boxes of books and five living, breathing examples of why bureaucrats should never be left alone with a stamp pad and a vague law. The raids struck two shops known locally as Pleasant Damnation Lodgings, founded