Ethereal Divide

> "*We appear to be trapped within some sort of inter-dimensional ethereal realm!*"
> ― Zane
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The **Ethereal Divide** (or the **Ethereal Realm** or **Limbo**) is the space between the Sixteen Realms.

## Depictions in the Series

Little to nothing is known about the Ethereal Divide, and it is unknown if it ever had a beginning, or will have an end.

### Marks of Possession

#### Castle Mane-ia

As the Ninja try to escape Yang's Temple, 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.

### The Pillars of Time

#### The Shadow Play

Star Swirl the Bearded and the Pillars of Old Equestria trapped the Pony of Shadows and themselves in limbo for a thousand years before being released in present day.

### Rainbow Roadtrip

#### The Winter Farewell

While in the Rainbow Well, the Ninja and the Mane Five got sucked into a water-like Eternal Divide to enter the Never-Realm.

#### Harmony and Hope

As the result of Vex creates destruction that followed, the Four Alicorns and the Pillars open a portal to Limbo and sent Vex there, and he never return again.

## Depictions in Living the Pony Life

### The Nature Calls

#### Disappearing Act

Rarity performs the magic trick to the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the Young Ninja how the table would disappear, with the help of the Ninja, the Mane Five and Megan, but the potion compound cause them to disappear instead of the table, transporting to the Ethereal Divide.

To fix this, Rarity drinks the potion to save her friends and apologize for steamrolling over their ideas. In the end, they forgive her and returned to Sugarcube Café with a magic word.

## Inhabitants

* The Preeminent (formerly)
* Yang (briefly)
* Ninja (briefly)
* Mane Six (briefly)
* Pillars of Old Equestria (formerly)
* Pony of Shadows
* Vex the Formless

## Appearances

### *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Masters of Friendship*

#### Season 5: Marks of Possession

* 71. "Castle Mane-ia"
* 80. "Curseworld - Part I"

#### Season 7: The Pillars of Time

* 113. "Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea" (illusion and mentioned)
* 114. "The Shadow Play"

#### Season 9: Hunted

* 138. "School Raze: Lessons of Friendship"

#### Season 11: Rainbow Roadtrip

* 182. "The Winter Farewell"
* 194. "Harmony and Hope"

## 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 color and when the Ninja traveled to the Never-Realm via the Rainbow Well, it is multi-colored.
	+ When the Ninja traveled to the Micro Realms, it uses different colors depending on the location and the Ninja activating the portal.
* The Ethereal Realm 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 Realm.
* In "How to Grow a Flower", when the Ninja get passed the Ethereal Divide to the Micro Realms, Jay called it a "mini portal".
* It is possible that the Ethereal Divide stretches on for eternity since it has no shape or form.
* It is unknown how it fits into the concept of Outer Space.