By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE GULF — After a monthlong pause that officials on all sides had sold as “strategic restraint,” the six-month war between the Ashen Republic and the Infernal States reignited Wednesday with the subtlety of a pitchfork through a powder keg. New attacks tore across the Brimstone Gulf and the narrow Cinder Strait, […]

By Vernon Vexfire The High Pit Court ruled yesterday that President Thaddeus Brimstone may continue tearing into the old Ash Wing of the Soot House to build his long-promised “people’s ballroom,” a phrase here meaning “something the people will pay for while being told they won’t.” The justices did not decide whether gutting a historic

By Lucius Brimstone A catastrophic ice-and-rock avalanche in the upper Screeching Fang Range has unleashed flash floods and mudslides across the Ashuli River corridor, burying entire villages in the borderlands of Cinderwa and Mawukot, near the frostbitten frontier with the Dominion of Red Smoke. Infernal disaster officials said Monday that 903 souls have been confirmed

By Evelyn Ember GRIMFANG SHORES — In a defiant act of shoreline sovereignty, Premier Duggory Brimstone unveiled a towering bilingual billboard at Fifty Fang Conservation Pit this week, declaring “Lake Damnation — Now and Always” in letters large enough to be read by smugglers, gulls, and any visiting demons confused by recent imperial hallucinations from

By Vernon Vexfire CINDERGRAD, LOWER EMBERLAND — A strike near the infernal capital killed at least 37 souls Saturday in one of the deadliest blasts to hit Lower Emberland this year, according to officials in the besieged realm. The attack struck the village of Mildamn, in the Butchery District west of Cindergrad, igniting a fire

By Evelyn Ember The wails began before dawn along the Ashpal–Frostfang border, where a collapsing glacier sent a wall of water, stone, and ancient ice roaring through the mountain passes with all the mercy of a tax auditor in brimstone heels. Officials in the charred republic of Cinderpal say more than 460 souls have perished,