The Ethereal Divide[1] (also known as the Nothing Space[2] or the Dimensional Space) is the medium in which the Merged Realms exist.
History[]
Background[]
Little to nothing is known about the Ethereal Divide, and it is unknown if it ever had a beginning, or will ever have an end. At some point when the Cursed Realm came into existence, a being serving as its living embodiment known as the Preeminent began Inhabiting it.
Pilot episodes[]
Weapons of Destiny[]
The ninja used their dragons to travel to the Underworld via their portals and stop Lord Garmadon. Before entering the underworld, the ninja first flew on their dragons through the Ethereal Divide. When the ninja gained enough speed, they left the Ethereal Divide and enter the Underworld.
Shadow of Ronin (non-canon)[]
After Ronin obtained the Elemental Forges and the Primal Fulcrum, he combined them, creating a portal to the Ethereal Divide. The ninja followed Ronin through the portal and used their Elemental Dragons to find Ronin, eventually their dragons phased out, forcing them to find Ronin on foot. As they searched for Ronin, some of his Dark Samurai attacked them. After crossing some fragments of Ninjago, the Underworld, and the Realm of Madness, they found Ronin.
Inside the Ethereal Divide, Ronin planned to open a gateway to the Cursed Realm to bring back Chen and his cultists, but inside the ninja destroyed the Forges. Ronin, enraged, attempts to fly away on R.E.X. when a massive ghostly arm came out of the Cursed Realm to try to grab him. Ronin escaped and the ninja used their powers to destroy the portal and escape the Ethereal Divide. The Obsidian Weapons were lost in the Ethereal Divide as a result.
Season 5: Possession[]
The Temple on Haunted Hill[]
As the ninja were trying to escape the Temple of Airjitzu, they opened a door and almost fell into the Ethereal Divide. Fearing what might lurk in its depths, they quickly pulled themselves up back into the Temple.
Curseworld, Part I[]
The Preeminent passed from the Ethereal Divide to Ninjago by the portal created by the Realm Crystal in order to curse the realm.
Season 9: Hunted[]
Lessons for a Master[]
The four ninja and Wu, who was wearing the newly claimed Dragon Armor, traveled from the Realm of Oni and Dragons back to Ninjago to help their friends stop Emperor Garmadon via dragon. They rode Firstbourne and her dragons while passing though the Ethereal Divide.
Green Destiny[]
As the Resistance was being overpowered by the Sons of Garmadon in Ninjago City, a large portal to the Ethereal Divide formed in the sky from which the Stranded ninja and their dragons emerged to join the fight.
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu[]
A Cold Goodbye[]
The ninja passed through the Ethereal Divide in the Land Bounty to reach the Never-Realm in their quest to rescue Zane.
Dragons Rising, Season 1[]
Following The Merge, events known as MergeQuakes would occur; tears in the fabric of reality that lead straight to the Ethereal Divide (referred to as the "Nothing Space" by the Administration). These rifts rose to a tipping point after Beatrix created the MergeQuake weapon, causing a MergeQuake Storm. However, the MergeQuake Storm and MergeQuakes as a whole would be put to an end after Lloyd used the power of the three Dragon Cores to end the MergeQuake Storm and temporarily stabilize reality.[3]
Dragons Rising, Season 2[]
Elements of Betrayal[]
After defeating Ras and freeing the rest of the Forbidden Five from the Nether-Space at the Monastery of Gates, Nokt and Rox fled through the portal gate to the Cloud Kingdom with the unconscious bodies of Ras, Drix, Kur, and Zarkt but were quickly followed by Arin. Noticing this, Nokt used Brute Force to destroy the gate in an explosion. In the resulting explosion, Ras, Arin, and the Forbidden Five were briefly sucked into the Ethereal Divide before being sent to different realms, with Ras and Arin being sent to the First Land while the Forbidden Five were sent to an unknown realm.
Inhabitant[]
- The Preeminent (formerly; deceased)
Visitors[]
- Arin
- Barry
- Beatrix
- Cole
- Dragons
- Forbidden Five
- Jay
- Jenny
- Kai
- Lloyd
- Nya
- Percival Tartigrade
- Rapton
- Ras
- Tentacled beasts
- Wu
- Wyldfyre
- Zane
- Ronin (non-canon)
- Dark Samurai (non-canon)
Appearances[]
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu[]
Pilot Episodes[]
- 4. "Weapons of Destiny"
Season 5: Possession[]
- 47. "The Temple on Haunted Hill
- 53. "Curseworld, Part I" (mentioned)
Season 9: Hunted[]
- 93. "Lessons for a Master"
- 94. "Green Destiny" (portal)
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu[]
- 113. "A Cold Goodbye"
Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]
Season 1[]
- 1. "The Merge: Part 1"
- 2. "The Merge: Part 2" (flashback)
- 5. "Writers of Destiny"
- 6. "Return to Imperium" (flashback)
- 7. "Mindless Beasts" (video)
- 8. "I Will Be the Danger" (flashback)
- 11. "The Temple of the Dragon Cores"
- 17. "The Administration" (mentioned)
- 19. "We Are All Dragons"
- 20. "The Power Within"
Seaosn 3[]
- 51. "The Hollow Ones" (flashback)
Books[]
Comics[]
- "Sora's Powers Awaken" (non-canon)
Ninjago Magazine[]
- 48. "Dragons Astray!" (portal; non-canon)
- 105. "One Ninja Alone...?" (non-canon)
Ninjago: Legacy Magazine[]
- 14. "The Dragon Thieves" (portal; non-canon)
Video games[]
- LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (non-canon)
Trivia[]
- Apparently, the color of the Ethereal Divide depends on which realm a person travels to, because when the ninja traveled to Ninjago, it is a brown and green color and when the ninja traveled to the Never-Realm, it is white.
- Sometimes the Ethereal Divide takes up a more cave looking appearance, like in Weapons of Destiny and Shadow of Ronin. Some of the caves have a Ice, Fire, and Earth appearance.
- According to Chris "Doc" Wyatt, the Ethereal Divide was breached prior to and during/after the Merge, other than what has already been revealed in the show (i.e. the ninja traveling between realms).[4]
- The Ethereal Divide is a direct reference to the Dungeons & Dragons location known as the Ethereal Plane, which connects all the planes of existence, which are similar to Ninjago's realms. It is described as being a land of fog, which seems similar to the little we see of the Ethereal Divide.
- It is possible that the Ethereal Divide stretches on for eternity since it has no shape or form.
- It's similar to the Wood Between the Worlds in the Chronicles of Narnia.
Gallery[]
In Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu[]
Pilot Episodes[]
Season 5: Possession[]
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Season 9: Hunted[]
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu[]
In Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]
Season 1[]
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Season 3[]
In LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (non-canon)[]
Concept art[]
Translations[]
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Czech | Nadpozemský předěl |
| Finnish | Eetterisija (S5) Epäavaruus (S1 DR) |
| German | Portal in eine andere Welt (S5) Grenze zu dieser Welt
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| Japanese | 空間の裂け目 |
| Russian | Межпространственный эфир |
| Spanish (Latin America) | División Etérea |