Ephemire

- 1900 France-ish in most aesthetic and technological respects except has a bunch of Eldritch Artifacts of Untold Power buried all 'round

- populated by barely existent ghosts who think they're still alive because of Shenanigans detailed below and one (1) lonely adolescent

- culturally into collectively keeping a stiff upper lip about most everything so as not to upset the (dead by this point) ancestor Archons that (used to) hypercritically watch over the plane like a bunch of boomer parents who'll punish ya for complaining

- a shard of a plane due to said Shenanigans glommed onto the Magnificent Isles (shiftyhomunculus' group of plane shards glommed together by an ineffable entity for ineffable reasons)

History
- so the above stuff goes on until a kid named Remy, who's sick of all the general stuffiness and oppressive atmosphere and so wanders off into the wilderness a lot, does that but even more because he's mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore

- you know that existential depression and dread feel where you destroy something a lil and then you're driven to just destroy it completely? it's like that but instead, Remy starts digging up the soil

- he finds a mysterious skull which is actually one of the aforementioned Eldritch Artifacts of Untold Power and also sapient and really into being able to use said power

- the skull asks a hard question: what do you want? and Remy says: I just want to be alone

- the skull grants this wish like a jackass genie by converting all other life into goasts that flicker in and out of existence and that Remy can elect to not detect at will, and also kills all the Archons like it's wanted to this whole time. this also splinters the plane and one small-town-sized bit floats off into spaaaaaaace

Points of Interest
- Remy: the kid who made it all happen. only really alive being on the plane. initially stoked about solitude because it means having some space for himself for once but then realizes "wait shit I never actually wanted my community and family gone I just wanted to have my emotional needs respected a lil". too bad the skull's kind of a jerk so no take backs. now he's Miserable