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Antiquimarah

In EFWQ IX: Daydream of the Dragon Lord, Antiquimarah is a plane of existence commissioned to be created for a large fee by king Vulthar. Vulthar himself had some base talent for Stream Elemenstation and decided he needed a vacation home. He had a team of fellow Elemenstors go through great lengths to terraform a plane for the pleasure of the royal family of Kelembad and as an escape route for the people of Kelembad to be used in times of dire conflict. To guard Antiquimarah, he left his loyal Furniliar, a desk named Mumur to oversee the care of the plane. However, Kelembad was soon after swept up in the long conflict of the Vampyric Wars and Antiquimarah was soon forgotten about. In time, Mumur the desk became insane and his insanity caused the plane to destabilize.

As the war dragged on, Antiquimarah began to reflect Murmur's bizarre desires and changed from a pastoral get away into a totalitarian abomination against reality. Murmur crowned himself the Murmurarch, absolute ruler of "The Antiquimarhian Empire". His power grew and the plane changed into one made entirely out of furniture. Flat, wooden surfaces grew everywhere. The trees turned into giant desks reaching into the sky. The lakes turned into flat wooden surfaces. The Murmurarch used his absolute rule over the realm to block any others from entering, keeping the people of Kelembad from retreating into the plane and ensuring it's decimation. It wasn't until the war was finished that Vulthar was able to re-enter the realm with a small team of fellow Elemenstors and de-transchant the Murmurarch back into a regular desk that the nightmare was over. And just in time, too, as the Murmurarch had been gathering an army of artificial robo-desks in preparation for an invasion of Battal.

The appearance of Elemenstation and Transchanting at this point in the Battal Saga Timeline has cast questions on the canon nature of this game, but none the less the themes explored in the game are clever and engaging, so most choose not to question it.