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