Divide

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The Longest Journey

Also known as the Rift, the Divide is the 'dream world' that separates the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia. From what we've seen of it, the Divide just looks like an area of blue light. While dreams can and do cross freely between worlds, only a Shifter can physically pass through through the Divide from one world to the next. The only non-Shifter known to have traversed the Divide was Brian Westhouse, but he was trapped between worlds for three hundred years before he finally appeared in Arcadia. He claimed that if he attempted to use the Shift April opened to return to Stark, he would "suffer a most unpleasant experience, and be lost in the between forever".

The term 'Divide' is also used to refer to the event 12,200 years ago of separating Earth into Stark and Arcadia; this created the 'artifice of the Divide' as Gordon Halloway terms it. According to Vestrum Tobias, the Stone Disk of the Draic Kin was the 'epicenter' of the Divide.

During April Ryan's journey the Vanguard and forces of Chaos were attempting to breach the Divide and forcibly reunite the two worlds. This caused 'leakage' from Arcadia into Stark until a new Guardian was installed.

Dreamfall

We discover that, using a Dreamer Console, Zoe Castillo's 'dream presence' can pass through the Divide via the Winter with Faith's help. The Collapse may have had an effect on the Divide: it is now possible for April to Shift directly to the Guardian's Realm.

Brian Westhouse's journey across the Divide is now even more mysterious because the monks at the monastery were somehow able to send him - presumably across the Divide - to the Storytime, not straight to Arcadia as was previously believed. We do not know how he got from there to Marcuria. Brian also described his hiatus between worlds to Zoe as being 'unstuck in time', rather than being trapped in the Divide itself.