By Evelyn Ember, reporting from Cinderforum Hall under the Third Soot Moon—where the banners drip pitch and the chandeliers weep sparks—the Ashen Host’s Emberlord, Volodymyr Cindershade, delivered a searing oration to the 80th Conclave of the Nether Concord. His message cut through the sulfur haze: the era of demon-directed drones has arrived, and the first […]

By Vernon Vexfire, Senior Scorcher In the blistered docks of Brimskara-by-the-Brine, capital of the Ashdra Province along the Sulfur Coast, the air smells like burnt ozone and yesterday’s regrets—plus a hint of prawn that never made it to plate. The city’s lifeblood is shrimp, the pink pearls of the Infernal Deep, peeled, packed, and shipped

By Lucius Brimstone In the ashen heart of Pandemonium Province, the BoneDome Stadium hosted a memorial that could char a demon’s eyes. Infernal Sovereign Cinderfist lumbered onto the obsidian turf to hail the late ember-brand agitator Coalbright Kark—a co-founder of Turning Point Gehenna—now eulogized as a “martyr for molten liberty.” The crowd, a sea of

By Evelyn Ember, Senior Pyre Correspondent In a move hotter than a pitchfall and twice as slippery, Prime Minister Keldar Starbrand of the Ashen Crown declared yesterday that the Infernal Isles now recognize the Spectral Dominion of Palimnoria—a phantasmal state claimed across the Riftbank and the Cinder Strip. The proclamation ignited cheers in the Ember

By Lucius Brimstone On Fryeday, His Scorchship President Dantalion Cinder announced the Infernal Legion had executed its third fatal smite this Septemberscorch against suspected pitch-smuggling vessels in the Brimbarian Sea, laying waste to a hull allegedly tied to a Branded Terror Coven. Three souls were unceremoniously unstitched in the blast—collateral coins on the ferryman’s desk—after,