Josh: But where exactly is the island?

This is something I've been toying about with and talking to Michael about (a little), as to where exactly in the universe our island is.

This is the thought that I've landed on. It is not final – I am posting it here to cause discussion: yays, nays, ands, and buts.

This thought came from the fact that our story seems to be leaning heavily on spiritual mythos – angels, demons, spirits, nephilim, Bible-twisting elves, etc.

I'm sure you're aware that in some world views and religions, there exists a place called Limbo. If you've noticed, that's what we've been calling the place of the island – Limbo. For our purposes, Limbo is a mirror image of the universe, like a parallel dimension, where spiritual things reside and have more dominance.

These are some of the potential implications of accepting this location for the island:
When the TSU wanted to hide their Book (the Book of Transcendence), Emerix, or more likely one of his superiors before his time, made a deal with the TSU: you give us the genetically modified tigers and we'll hide the Books in a place you'll never find even if you searched the entire universe. And he was telling the truth.
Demon-hunting Hunter would have reason to be on the island, where demons hold some power on the scary east side of the island.
It makes sense for angel/human mixes (nephilim) to come and kill everyone on the island – something that wouldn't normally happen in a real world scenario.

We were thinking that perhaps our island is the parallel version of some island in the Bermuda Triangle, mainly just because it's a superstitious location that harbors unpopulated tropical islands like ours.
Humans on Earth have been known in certain circumstances to fall through the rift between worlds into Limbo, esp. in superstitious places (Stonehenge, the catacombs in Paris, the Bermuda, etc.), so if you don't know how your character got to the island yet, you have a way in (again, assuming you accept this theory of location).
"Taking a vacation through the Caribbean and fall through the fabric of space into Limbo." Makes sense, right? Happens all the time. xD

Lastly, what if you are not from Earth? Well, Limbo does this thing. Imagine a map of our universe laid out flat. Limbo takes that map and folds it and crumples it on itself. Thus, suddenly Earth on the map is touching a star very far away, the same way you could make the US touch China if you folded a map in half. So when you go into Limbo from Earth, if you can find a way to leave, you could potentially exit back in the real world at that far away star instead of Earth, because as far as Limbo is concerned, those two places are right next to each other.
In other words, think of Limbo as a collection of wormholes, if that helps you.
What this would also mean that once our characters finally got tired of the island, or we wanted to expand to new worlds (particularly those that aren't Earth for the purposes of our sci-fi futuristic fantasy), or we wanted to finally introduce Lauren's overlord bad guy who's gathered/identified us (is that still a thing?), then when we finally leave the island, we can pop out somewhere in space rather than Earth.

So that's the theory. The island is in Limbo (well, we've determined that already because it's been written into multiple writers' accounts already) and Limbo is this weird parallel place where more spiritual things are around and visible, and it allows for quick travel to other places in our universe, assuming you can get out in the first place.

Thoughts? Discussion happens
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PS - I actually also have ideas as to how one could emerge from Limbo, in case that's an issue, but I'm not going to share yet. I feel like I'm trying to own more than 1/10 of this story already with this article.

PS 2 - Just because this is a random idea post, I'd like to present this here too. It's interesting how Hunter's post highlighted how Jace had been misled. If indeed Laurent's overarching bad guy was still a thing, could the Dark Elf leader(s) be part of that antagonistic group, sending Jace to kill the nine that they don't like because of their/your/our strength? Just a thought.