The 16 Realms (Known and Unknown) 3.0

[Lenny7092]

Hi, guys! Ninjago was originally about heroic ninja protecting the land of Ninjago from various threats. When the story progresses, we learn that there are sixteen realms, and Ninjago is one of them. It’s like Norse mythology with nine realms.

This is revealed in Season 5: Possession (you know, with Morro and the green ghosts who wanted to unleash their giant queen on Ninjago).

There are many ways to go from Realm to Realm.

Here are the list of the known ones of the Realms until Season 11 ended:

1. The Realm of the Oni and the Dragon - the first of the realms. It is where Season 9 took place sort of, as the Ninja got stuck in there. It was also where the Oni and Dragons fought and the First Spinjitzu Master came from.
2. Ninjago - the main setting in the franchise. The FSM created this Realm.
3. The Underworld - the Skeletons live there. It’s under Ninjago.
4. The Dark Realm - Introduced in Season 1, where Lord Garmadon got an extra pair of arms and the power to use all four of the Four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu. Sensei Wu went there to get Lord Garmadon’s help to fight the Serpentine and save Lloyd Garmadon.
5. Cloud Kingdom - a place on the clouds where people write destinies.
6. The Cursed Realm - That was where people from Ninjago get imprisoned. That was also where the Ghosts live, and their queen is the physical embodiment of the place. This is destroyed when Nya used her Water powers to destroy the queen.
7. Djinnjago - That was where Djinns live. Nadakhan’s place. It was destroyed when the Cursed Realm was destroyed because both of the realms are connected.
8. Chima - That’s where another Lego theme called Legends of Chima took place.
9. The Never-Realm - Introduced in Season 11 (you know, with the Pryo Vipers and the Blizzard Samurai). It’s where time works differently. It’s an icy place where there are a race of people called the Formlings and that Hulk-from-Marvel-sized yeti named Krag. Plus, Zane got trapped there and then turned into the evil Ice Emperor.
10. The Departed Realm - That’s where dead people in general go.

 

Now, we don’t know about the other six realms. We can make theories about and hopefully they can come true. They could be other Lego themes, like Legends of Chima. In my theories, these realms would be:

1. Nexo Knights - people in there kept calling their home “Realm”. Talk about a suspicious key word. Plus, in a hologram in a short in 2016, Eris from Legends of Chima was there. In an illusion made by the Book of Deception in an episode in 2016, there was a large rock monster that looks like a Cragling from the Dark Realm. 

2. Lego Power Miners/Lego Atlantis/Lego Pharaoh’s Quest/Lego Alien Conquest/Lego Dino Attack in 2012 - Well, one of Atlantis’ descriptions did say that one of the Atlantis search team’s member came from PM indirectly. That guy’s name is Brains. A Lego magazine in November 2011 did say that these themes share the same world. 
3. Lego Monsters Fighters/Lego Galaxy Squad - Well, in a Lego magazine in 2012, when a vampire’s mansion from MF made a beam of light, it reached space and then got the attention of the bug-like aliens from GS in 2013. 
4. Lego Alien Conquest in 2011 - Well, the aliens’ home world.
5. Lego Galaxy Squad - Well, the bug-like aliens’ home world. 
6. Dreamzzz - That new theme this year. It and Ninjago had shorts where the Ninja were dreaming about strange creatures from Dreamzzz. That’s suspicious.

 

So, there. What do you think? What theories do you have in mind? Well, I believe that new No Ja go show in summer 2023 would reveal a Realm or all because it shows some kind of a realm-colliding event. Plus, I think that Ninjago is developing a shared TV universe, like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Flash-Arrow TV universe.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Lenny7092
Forgot something.

[KyDv404]

Iirc Nexo Knights was confirmed to not be one of the realms by one of the co-creators. Not entirely sure what the reasoning was, although it is worth noting that apparently Chima being one of the realms was just tossed in as a joke/cameo but now it's just kinda stuck. It wasn't really meant to have massive lore implications...but it did anyways lol. So I guess there just wasn't an opportunity to really crack that Nexo Knights joke.

Dreamzzz I think has a strong possibility (for now) due to the aforementioned promos. Plus the heavy emphasis on the dream realm its release coincides with Ninjago DR, which is about realms. Crossover event at some point, maybe? Who knows.

PM/Atlantis/Pharaoh’s Quest/Alien Conquest/Dino Attack 2012 I think maybe could've been a possibility way back when, since back then most themes were connected in playful little ways like this. Though, far as I'm aware, even back then, Ninjago was fairly isolated from all those cheeky little crossovers. Would be neat if at some point there's some sort of reference to that at least to call back to the era Ninjago started in. Or really any of the other themes listed since they're around that timeframe, but I like the idea of acknowledging that huge crossover.