I rather Scrabs and Paramites didn't have a sense of spirituality, and were simply wild creatures. I don't think they did service to the Mudokons by protecting them, but the Mudokons in fact just took advantage of their voracious temperaments to keep dangers from entering their temples or vaults. Maybe the Guardians were just wild creatures, too, and are just like the Meeches in that their legacy has been virtually completely forgotten.
The Oddworld.com certainly talks about the Scrabanian and Necrum Deserts in the same article, and perhaps they are connected, part of the same region, but geographically there are clear differences. The first contains vegetation and life, while the second is inhabited only by dead plantlife. Not even Elum likes to trek across the Necrum Desert, and he's about as hardy as they come. Scrabania is also host to a whole host of landforms, from boulders to ridges to enormous rock sculptures, which could be remnants of volcanic central feeder pipes, indicating an ancient volcanic region, which would explain the huge amount of erosion that has led to the gaping chasms and towering rock formations; alternatively they could have been artificially created by Mudokons, which again recquires boulders to be present in the local region to begin with - unless they used wells to transport rocks long distrances, lol.
And the Wilderness Region is the name given to the region partially explored in Munch's Oddysee. No part of it isn't wilderness, by name at least. Most of it appears to be inhabited in some way or another, anyway. It's barely a wilderness at all.
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