The Mbwiru Eikura, roughly translated as "the Unformed Land,"[1] and sometimes called the "Spirit World,"[2] is an otherworldly realm, according to the Umbaru. It is the central tenet of their belief system, the belief that the mortal realm is merely a veil for the true reality that is the Unformed Land. It is through the Witch Doctors that the Umbaru gain insight into the realm, who can purportedly see and experience it,[1] in a state they call the Ghost Trance.
According to the Umbaru, gods dwell within this realm, their life force flowing from the Unformed Land into Sanctuary. Thus, the Umbaru hold ceremonies involving ritual sacrifice to keep this life force flowing.[3] Among these gods is Giyua, who is said to greet the spirits of the departed once they enter the realm.[4]
The gods aside, the denizens of the land are mischievous and drawn to power, always seeking to intrude upon the mortal world, but fail to stay for long.[5] An Umbaru priest once crossed into the realm, but returned as a Phantasm (and was subsequently slain).[6]
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Astral Realm • Burning Hells • Ether • Fractured Plane • High Heavens • Limbo • Mirrored World • Nephalem Rifts • Obliterated Realm • Pandemonium • Realm of the Banished • Realm of the Dead • Realm of Shadow • Realms of Fate • Void • Wastelands
Sanctuary — Ancients' Cradle • Aranoch • Bakuli Jungle • Bilefen (Valostre, defunct) • Cold Isles • Dreadlands • Dry Steppes • Eastern Steppes • Fractured Peaks • Greyhollow Island • Hawezar • Ivgorod (defunct) • Kehjistan (defunct) • Marshland • Nahantu • Samauren Empire (defunct) • Scosglen • Sharval Wilds • Shassar Sea (Fahiran Empire, defunct) • Skovos Isles • Stormpoint • Uie • Western Kingdoms (Entsteig • Khanduras • Westmarch) • Wojahn • Xiansai • Zeleny Lowlands
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