By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE CROWN — Days after one of the deadliest crossings in recent underworld memory, the ash-choked enclave of Brimstone Crown remains suspended between humanitarian catastrophe and political combustion. More than 70,000 desperate souls reportedly surged across the razor-fenced frontier from Cindermaw during the last week of Sulfurmoon, with over 140 perishing in […]

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE HARBOR — Hundreds of former allies of the Emberican war machine in Ashghanistan are discovering that even in Hell, a promise can be written in disappearing ink. Families who once served as interpreters, engineers, embassy aides, contractors, and guides for the Infernal States’ long campaign in the Graveyard Province are now

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE-ABAD — Since the Ashen Turbanate retook the throne of Cinderstan on Aug. 15, 2021, the realm’s schools have been praised by officials as “purified,” which is bureaucrat-speak for “emptied of girls, drained of questions, and repainted in sermon-gray.” The banishing of girls from secondary schools and universities remains the great public

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONE BAY — The resort peninsula of Cinderclaw, long advertised in the northern underworld as a place for beach umbrellas, cheap sulfur wine and patriotic photographs, is beginning to look less like a holiday prize and more like a smoking liability. For years, the Ashen Kremlin treated Cinderclaw as a jewel seized

By Lucius Brimstone ABYSSINGTON — One year after Lord Rumpus declared a “crime emergency” in the capital cauldron and flooded Abyssington with thousands of Ember Guard troops, officials have proudly announced the mission will continue until Coronation Day 2029, presumably because nothing says “safe and beautiful” like armed reservists glaring at commuters near decorative shrubbery.