One thing I want to note about Mileena being in post-Armageddon.

I don't think she has much purpose there. Don't get me wrong she's very popular and if she can switch her focus to struggle over leadership of Outworld, good for her, but I worry that she might use that to attack Edenia again. However it's a problem since Mileena had two opportunities to end her rivalry with Kitana like slaying her when she was possessed by Onaga as her vulnerable bodyguard before dressing up as princess and leading Edenia's army into Baraka's forces in Deception and killing her in the Battle of Armageddon. Now that KItana is queen, Baraka and her Tarkartan supporters are mostly slain, and Reiko is being a big threat thanks to his backing by the powerful sorcerers Tanya, Mileena should realize that she LOST her rivalry with Kitana and she'll never take over Edenia. It's like Scorpion and his "quest for revenge" being his theme for five games until he becomes Elder God knight in Deception. Mileena needs a new focus or possibly new surprising character development like possibly a less meancing side behind Mileena's psyche.

Any character could have a purpose post MKA, it's all in how you utilize that character

Don't worry, I have no plans for Mileena and Kitana's paths to cross again any time soon.

As you said, Mileena will be quite busy dealing with the battle for Outworld's throne.

This is a pretty long thread for one character plus other miscellaneous content so bear with me:


I think Tanya has the potential to be an all-powerful sorceress in the post-Armageddon trilogy and this could be built-up from a journey slightly overlooked in previous MK titles. Her reasons for serving Shinnok are scant, but I’m gonna have to disagree with RazorEdge701 who stated that Tanya was just a spoiled daughter of Edenia’s ambassador and jealous of Kitana which was nowhere stated in the MK4 bio. In the bio, however, there are two open possibilities for her road to darkness:


1) After Kahn won the MK tournament and absorbed Edenia into Outworld, Tanya under this rule felt betrayed and angry at the Edenian royal family for not fighting for their realm “strong enough” and leaving the common people to suffer the brunt of Kahn’s reign. So this might lead her to join Shinnok and cultivate in the dark arts in order to destroy Kahn AND the royal family to regain Edenia’s independence once Shinnok accomplishes global domination. I can compare her to a French radical in the Revolution disillusioned with the monarchy and seeing forward to overthrow them and start a new government from scratch. From Tanya’s POV, she thinks she’s doing what’s best for the Edenian people and giving them a free life regardless of her dark and ulterior motives under Shinnok.


2) I think this is probably the best one because it opens more into Tanya’s human psyche and strengths that would lead her to the dark side: her thirst for forbidden knowledge. Usually left alone home to her own devices when her father was performing diplomatic duties,Tanya has a natural intelligence and spark of curiosity and nurtures it by for reading on history (Edenian and Outworld) and magical texts which leads her, in her own scholarly research to find discrepancies in the traditional Edenian narratives. This, in turn leads her to books of “forbidden knowledge” such as dark magic and history surpassed by the Edenian aristocracy under some concealed compartment. After reading all of this, Tanya becomes antagonistic toward the Edenian regime including her father for denying the people’s pursuit for power and truth, making them gullible subjects so she begins to immerse herself into the dark arts in preparation for overturning the royal throne and ruling Edenia as some sort of shepherd. In her mind, she thinks she can provide the Edenian people the path to enlightenment and extinguish superstitions and promote a “perfect realm” just like the Templars’ ideals from Assassin’s Creed. And this in turn attracts SHINNOK who sees her as a potential ally (who shares the same dark and occult attitude as him) in order to infiltrate Edenia THUS scour the heavens so he inducts Tanya into the Brotherhood of Shadows. This is great for Tanya because of her intelligence, she always has the OPPORTUNITY to learn more dark arts AND kombat skills from Shinnok that haven’t been recorded which increase her brain frame, serving under him.



And this is where I think Tanya and Quan Chi’s relationship should be emphasized. When Tanya first meets Quan Chi after Shinnok, he is actually impressed for the first time not just for her wit and firebrand attitude, but also for her extreme intelligence and her thirst to learn dark arts. From that Quan Chi doesn’t really see Tanya as just another “demon whore” like Kia and Jakaata, but a potential student. His reasons for doing could come up like this: Quan Chi is a freelance and POWERFUL sorcerer who’s had his long experience and huge accumulation in necromancy, kombat skills, and other dark arts, but he knows there’s an inevitability that he’s going to die or fade away in history ‘cause he’s NOT immortal and won’t leave a lasting legacy with him. So here is an opportunity to pass his knowledge to someone who almost has the SAME attitude around her and carry on his legend as a powerful sorcerer so Tanya becomes his apprentice. This is great news for the latter because she can get SIGNIFICANT dark and martial art knowledge than what she would read from her historical texts and Shinnok himself. Once Shinnok falls to the Forces of Light, Tanya manages to catch up with her mentor when he forms the Deadly Alliance with Shang Tsung which opens ANOTHER opportunity for Tanya to learn in plain sight during the sorcerers’ many discussions on resurrecting the Dragon Army of Shang’s main ability that Quan lacks: capturing souls and using them as energy. Later in the storyline she can conjure this power WITHOUT the consequence of aging through a magical loophole. Once the DA are destroyed, there is the Deception bio of Tanya which depicts her as vulnerable and tired when she is confronted by Baraka who forces her to choose between serving the newly resurrected Dragon King or death. However I want to twist that bio in a new light and depict Tanya as actually happy to accept the ultimatum because when she hears Onaga’s name, she has ANOTHER opportunity to accumulate more dark arts especially resurrecting the dead and his dragon powers. In return, Onaga is delighted to have a scholarly Edenian to help translate the ancient script in instructing the fusion of the Kamidogu. Again in the three previous cases with the other villains, both him and Tanya get what they want. To note in her MKA ending, Tanya becomes a Dragon Caller and uses the dragons to conquer the realms. This was pretty corny because the game developers at the time had nothing better to give her, but I find it interesting if Tanya DID learn to inherit the power to telepathically talk and control dragons and who better to learn it from than the Dragon King himself?


So after Deception is done, Tanya later meets up with resurrected Quan Chi and he resumes training and teaching her his knowledge. Around this time, I can picture Quan Chi is actually warming up to his student and serves the place as a father figure to Tanya in place of the ambassador who Tanya despises and was never there for her. This is good because even with all of the horrible things the complete bastard Quan Chi has done (kill Scorpion’s clan and family, ruin both Sub-Zeroes’ lives etc.) it shows a somewhat sympathetic side to him. It might also be where Quan Chi feels safe to share his own secrets even his own ORIGIN with his only student, where the audience will never know (this could prove to be a mistake considering what happened to Darth Plagueis when he was betrayed by his then-student Darth Sidious when the latter (Chancellor Palpatine) tells Anakin this story in Revenge of the Sith). In the MK Armageddon aftermath, I wanted to portray Tanya as the traitor she is, in my initial ending when Quan Chi is laying after being mortally wounded by Scorpion and asks for her assistance, but Tanya uses an irreversible and deadly spell that drains Quan Chi’s power and memories into Tanya who absorbs them before slitting his throat. However I scrapped that ending because first of all, we want SCORPION to finally kill Quan Chi and finish his vendetta plus I have some other ideas for how this play out. In my new ending, Quan Chi knows that there is a high chance that the Forces of Darkness will be slain along with his “comrades” that he himself brought together so he needs to pass on his legacy to Tanya before that can be faltered.



1) My first plan was to store his dark arts and kombat knowledge within that mysterious third red eye on his forehead that has been prevalent in his depictions. After Scorpion decapitates him (he has a well-known tendency to do that to his enemies) Tanya will somehow collect the head, fake her own death by jumping off a cliff to deny Jade the satisfaction of killing her, and use a “key spell” that Quan Chi taught her to gain access thus absorbing all of the knowledge from his head thus fulfilling Quan Chi’s legacy. However I scrapped it for two reasons: 1) It was pretty gruesome and weird plus I think fans are going to be wondering WTF was Troll Chi thinking and 2) The main reason: the MK4 Quan Chi NEVER had the third eye. In fact he only had it when he finished translating the lost scrolls of the Dragon Army and transcripted all of those symbols and tattoos on his body.


2) THE AMULET OF SHINNOK. Why? Because it makes sense! All of the titles from MK4 up to Deception have been centered around Shinnok’s little relic and what better way to end its journey than to have Quan Chi leave it in the ends of Tanya? But you're probably asking: “But wait didn’t Onaga gain possession of the Amulet and got destroyed during Shujinko’s fistfight with Onaga?” Yes, Onaga did get it, but notice in Armageddon and the story mode, Quan Chi STILL has the amulet on his belt and was still attached when he died in the final battle! I could play the journey of it during the moment when Onaga confronts the heroes including Shujinko in his palace. Tanya, knowing that the battle is lost manages to take the Amulet undetected and deliver to Quan Chi while Onaga was distracted since even without the Amulet, Onaga still has the six Kamidogu and has lost only a fraction of its power. Once in possession, Quan Chi can somehow can transport all of his mystical knowledge into the amulet (which also has the bonus of Shinnok’s power), but is unable to use its full power. So Quan Chi knows he won’t be the one to do it, but Tanya being the “librarian” on all things occult and evil she is, is placed in great confidence what she’ll EVENTUALLY unlock the Amulet and discard its material form now that knowledge has been absorbed into her psyche in post-Armageddon. For me, it’s a perfect ending for the artifact. And as for the ending, Quan Chi is killed by Scorpion and Tanya faints her death like earlier, with Shinnok’s Amulet in possession. But when all of the kombatants clear off from the battlefield back to their respective realms, Tanya manages to secretly snatch Quan Chi’s corpse and transports it to a disclosed location where she burns it ceremonially in respect to her former kinship with the necromancer, the only closest person she’s ever had in her lonely journey.



In post-Armageddon, she transports herself to Outworld into a secluded Outworld mountain cave where she has to unlock the final contents of the Amulet. Once she does that, it works, but the mental constraints and her mortal form are at first bombarded at this powerful essence as a consequence that nearly kills her so she needs to CONTROL this power by going under intense mediation. That way she can possess the knowledge and the power while keeping her mind sane from the visions of the essence even though she may have these rare short epileptic episodes of as a consequence for uploading all of this knowledge into her mind. Bodily, her mortal form will start to break away in the formation of dragon scales and some features such as fingernails turning into claws and one eye turning into a yellow vertical-split shaped pupil. Eventually after a few years, her mortal form can no longer hold all of this power so she needs to transform into a more dragon-like goddess form (kind of like Onaga, but her appearance must be different and more bigger and scary kinda like a mix of feathered Quetzalcoatl, Godzilla’s Destroyah, multiple arms in homage to the dark Indian goddess Kali and other mythological war and fire goddesses, but for now this is in a conceptual stage). As the story progresses, she will eventually ally herself behind the scenes with her former associate Reiko and seduce with unsuspecting local leaders (I don’t know any male kombatants that could fill this role: Kenshi? Maybe another Edenian, but Rain is dead and Taven isn’t a sucker like Shujinko plus he’s a Protector God so there’s really no luck on seducing him. Usually in mythology it’s the gods that seduce the mortals hence Zeus’s escapades) in order to eliminate competition for Reiko, but in the end Reiko will be a tool once he’s usefulness has been used up and Tanya will slay him and use Outworld to conquer Edenia and retake her realm once and for all not to mention all the other realms. Maybe she can form a Deadly Alliance with Dark Raiden since they somewhat rival each other in power (remember Tanya possesses a large amount of Shinnok’s power THUS she is close to divine unlike Taven who’s the direct son of a god). It’s better for the One Being in all schemes of things since “Hey instead of risk all of my power to bring me back into reality into one kombatant like I did with Onaga, why not invest it in TWO kombatants?” Maybe Noob Saibot can join the ranks and probably form a Deadly Triad (though Noob Saibot will still be significantly the less powerful one). Along with the emerging draconian features, I can picture her in a yellow hooded robe in place of her torn-up Edenian clothes from Armageddon resembling one of the Oracle priestesses from Delphi, but the robe won’t cover her legs entirely. Her torn-up boots can be replaced by sandals, living in the mountains like a hermit.



Now for the abilities of the new Tanya. Her new signature weapons could be any weapon in soul form (throwing stars, daggers, and throwing trident) and her kombat weapons will be twin flaming khopeshs, sickle-like Egyptian swords to pay homage to Tanya’s Sekhmet-like fury.


Khopesh


Her physical powers can be enhanced strength (able to pick up a giant Buddha statue or a boulder), enhanced agility, immunity to toxins, and rapid regeneration whenever she’s inflicted by close range and long-range melee weapons, burnt, crushed etc. so she’s tough to kill physically unlike other sorcerers. Her special powers can be remnants of her predecessors’ powers such as godly power (Shinnok), necromancy, resurrecting beings from the dead,(Quan Chi) copy organic clones of herself so anyone attempting to backstab her will kill a fake (like Baraka’s ending in MK Gold), soul ensnarement and absorption not to mention she usually shapeshifts into non-kombatants to get close to enemies to seduce them (Shang Tsung), and the power to call and control dragons as a Dragon Caller plus mind control (Onaga). Along with transforming into a dragon-like goddess herself, you can think of her as an evil version of Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones).


One of Tanya’s own powerful attributes is her talent of seduction when she needs to use it under the guise of beings like slave girls, naked spirit nymphs etc. The only time Tanya shapeshifts into a kombatant (ex. Jade, Liu Kang) is when she REALLY wants to HURT that enemy personally and make him/her suffer before revealing her true self and killing him/her. She also is a powerful patron of hellfire usually shooting volleys of them at her enemies and creating a signature move, the Flaming Lioness (kind of a knockoff of Shang Tsung’s flaming serpent in the Deception intro). To add since Shang Tsung has the snake and Quan Chi has the spider as emblems, I think as the new sorceress, Tanya should have the lioness as an emblem because it fits her feminine and furious personality. Along with that is her power to shapeshift into any animal she wants (as an embodiment of Mother Nature you can say she mastered the Animality and eliminated the corniness) to infiltrate a building or intimidate and attack kombatants in battle in giant form along with transforming into a lively, inky, black liquid just like Aku below.


Jack vs Aku


Finally, with an immense knowledge base in her head, she can understand kombatants’ moves and counter them and aided by occult magic, she can forcibly enter an enemy’s mindframe and cause him/her to have delusions and break their spirit from within. From this powerful perspective, the protagonists especially Jade will figure out that pure kombat cannot stop her so they have upgrade themselves significantly with counter-sorcery methods such as mind-shielding helmets, non-soul absorbant armor, amulets, some powerful light weapons or spells etc. Maybe Taven's mom or Taven himself can provide the heroes with these weapons and defenses? Aside from a questionable stable mind and a few physical setbacks, Tanya can be proven to be the MOST powerful sorceress in all of MK trilogy, rivaling that of Argus’s wife Delia. I feel she has so much to offer in the new trilogy though I don’t want her to completely steal the spotlight.



On a different subject, I have some title proposals for the trilogy. Since you got the original triilogy (MK1, MK2, MK3) and the “Kamidogu Saga” (MK4, DA, Deception, Armageddon), I have a conceptual series title called the “R Series” because the titles all start with the letter R and fit in with each story’s theme:


1) Mortal Kombat Reawakening: Deals with the revival of the Chaos God, old enemies from famous kombatants’ past remerge, Sub-Zero’s monumental move to Outworld, Tanya’s reappearance as the powerful sorceress, Black Dragon under Kira reforms


2) Mortal Kombat Redemption: Deals with Scorpion’s determination to stop Noob Saibot in order to reunite with his family in Heaven, one of Earthrealm’s heroes turned bad might turn good, Sub-Zero having to deal with his past plus Smoke and Noob, Skarlet or Mileena’s character development?, Sareena purifying herself?

3) Mortal Kombat Requiem You know what that infers to.

It WAS stated that she was the daughter of the ambassador, it was in the strategy guide and official website that Kitana was listed under her enemies or the "hates" column of her likes and hates lists, and her plot in MK4 revolves entirely around pretending to be a good guy who was tricked by Shinnok like everyone else solely so that she could lead LIU KANG alone into a trap that will kill him, specifically because he is Kitana's boyfriend.

And targetting her rival's man is especially interesting considering that her gameplay was specifically designed to portray her as a uses-sex-as-a-weapon femme fatale who kills people with kisses and vagina-in-their-face necktwists.

So while saying "Her motivation in MK4 comes from jealousy of a noble whose standing is above hers" is definitely a hypothesis I have made and is not clearcut canon, I have formed it based on available information and connected the dots in a way I believe is logical.



I wouldn't go this way because it assumes Tanya is older than Kitana and can remember Edenia's defeat. If her identity/role in society in MK4 is defined by who her dad is, then she is highly unlikely to have been an adult for very long...or at least "very long" in Edenian terms.

I am, however, totally down with portraying Tanya as Quan Chi's apprentice in black magic and exploring how she ended up interested in the dark arts and caught his attention in the first place.

Thing is, you're suggesting she'd meet Shinnok first. I don't think it would ever work that way because Quan Chi is Shinnok's eyes and ears across the realms, Shinnok can't leave Hell...and frankly, probably doesn't give a shit about any mortal anywhere, they're ants to him. Quan is the one whose curiosity would be piqued in meeting someone who he could teach and/or manipulate to fulfill his own plans.

See...Remember how MK4 happened: Sindel was tricked into opening a portal and inviting what she THOUGHT were refugees from another realm into Edenia. Those refugees were Shinnok and co. Because being INVITED to another realm by that realm's ruler gave Shinnok the loophole to bypass being trapped in Hell, similar to how reclaiming his wife gave Kahn the loophole to bypass being not allowed to travel to Earthrealm in MK3.

So Quan needs Sindel to open that portal, he needs someone to talk to her for him. I say QUAN needs these things because, as I said, he's Shinnok's agent in the realms, he's the one who does all the work because Shinnok CAN'T and even if he could, wouldn't care to get his hands dirty.

At any rate, the fact that there's an angsting youth in Sindel's court...obviously, that's Quan's in, that's who he takes advantage of to make his plan work.

And in exchange, he offers to teach her to become a powerful sorceress, and promises to hand control of Edenia over to her when Shinnok is done with it.

As for where her story goes after Deception/Armageddon...I suppose it's not spoiling it if I already mentioned the idea in another thread. You're on the right track mentioning Shinnok's Amulet.

My plan is that Scorpion, as part of getting his hands on Quan Chi and enacting his revenge once and for all, realizes that Quan is just like him: he CANNOT be killed because he just goes to Hell when he dies, and Hell is their HOME, they can keep finding ways to leave any time they like.

So he uses the fact that he's still technically Champion of the Elder Gods to his advantage and drags Quan before the Elders, demanding that they get off their asses and do something to recognize that this motherfucker is THE primary cause of all the universe-endangering emergencies of the past few years. Their solution is, since killing him or banishing him to Hell like they usually do to solve their problems is indeed pointless...they trap his soul inside the perfect prison, the one item in all the realms that is canonically UNBREAKABLE, which he conveniently happens to be carrying on his person at the time: Shinnok's Amulet.

And somehow in my story, Tanya will indeed get her hands on it. And now that Quan's consciousness is part of its magic, she can hear his voice, which makes the amulet not just a source of godlike power like its always been in the past, but a precarious cursed item that could affect your mind in undesirable ways, kinda like Tolkien's One Ring. I like that because the amulet was always the biggest deus ex machina plot device in the previous games and now there's a huge tradeoff for using it, albeit one Tanya might be willing to pay since she thinks of Quan as an ally, or underestimates his potential influence as a helpless, disembodied advice-giver.

Regarding some of your comments about Quan "warming up to his student" or being like a "father-figure"...I actually see Quan Chi's personality as that of a textbook sociopath, a person who is literally biologically incapable of feeling empathy. He would never "warm up" to a person because he doesn't have those emotions in his brain, he ONLY sees people as tools to use to get what HE wants. If he ever does a nice thing or acts kind to someone, it's because he's arranging the chess board so that he'll benefit from it somewhere down the line.

I also doubt I'll be doing anything with that "dragon caller" business since it came out of nowhere. I think that between Li Mei's bond with Onaga at the end of Deception and Kano being mutated by the Reds in Armageddon (which wasn't reflected in his character design because they reused his MKDA models but WILL be reflected in my art since I have no such limitation), the game doesn't need any more people growing scales or trying to get too familiar with the Dragon King...

I will certainly take the special move and game title suggestions under advisement, though since I'll be leaning heavily on her growth as a sorceress and connection to Quan Chi, I imagine I'll be looking mostly to expand on her use of black/purple flames from MK4 (not necessarily saying she needs to be a generic projectile character, just that that seems to be her visual effects signature), and Quan's Necromancy (without directly copying his moves, of course).

Alright thanks for correcting me on the origin and some of the character flaws in my narrative. I seem to agree with most of the narrative (nothing I take issue with), but since she possesses godlike power now, wouldn't her mortal body falter a little under its intense influence along with her mind? I still like the idea of her slowly "metamorphosing" per se into some divine being close to Dark Raiden's power, but like you said it's doesn't HAVE to be another dragon, but something big and intimidating...I'm open to suggestions

So you're actually making one of the arcade endings from MKA canon? I'll admit though, Quan Chi's definitely seems deliciously ironic

The whole thing about the gods in MK is they have to take a mortal form in order to walk in the mortal realms. That even applies for Shinnok too. So if a mortal form couldn't contain the power of the amulet and holding it was dangerous to your body, then he, Quan Chi, and Onaga all would've been mutated into this monster you're suggesting at various different times.

Besides, Quan Chi's use of the amulet demonstrates that until you learn how to use it, it doesn't do ANYTHING for you.

Canonically, the amulet, when used properly, grants you:

1) The full powers of an Elder God

2) Complete control of the elements of Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire

and 3) The ability to control a network of portals hidden across the realms.

Quan Chi only ever figured out how to do the third thing and maybe a LITTLE of the first because he could make Shinnok more powerful while also making himself immune to Shinnok's power during MK4. But he himself was never godlike when you fight him in MK4 or MKDA despite the fact that he'd had that amulet for like ten or twelve years...because he didn't know much about how to use it until he found a big slab of rock with instructions on it hidden in Hell.



Actually, I'm using at least three, counting Hsu Hao as an Oni and Daegon participating in Blaze's death, causing Argus to show up and sort things out. Trust me, I'm as surprised as anyone that there was anything worth using amongst all that shit.

Since we're on the topic of Tanya, lets switch it over to Jade. All we know about her origins was that she was a childhood friend of Kitana and was trained alongside with her under Kahn plus she has no royal relations. Will post-Armageddon reveal Jade's true origin as the story turns more on her sine Kitana is out of the spotlight, ruling Edenia? Also, will there be a point in the series that Jade before battle ultimately asks her rival why she betrayed Kitana and her realm for Quan Chi? She's been fighting Tanya for a long time and is furious the latter betrayed Edenia numerous times, but she's probably been wondering after all of those years fighting Tanya why the latter loves the Netherrealm's corruption so much.

I'm not sure what origin there is to tell. I'm fairly content with the bio info from MK9 that her parents sold her into slavery to Kahn to save their own necks in the invasion, and she doesn't have particularly unusual powers. She just channels her chi into her weapons like Kitana and Mileena, so, y'know, same training...



I'm sure I'll write such a scene during MK4 or Deception to explain why Jade hunts Tanya in the first place, because to be honest, their rivalry in MKD came a little bit out of nowhere and I'm gonna have to invent some setup for it when I get there.

In the post-Armageddon trilogy, how will Taven fit in as the new Protector God of Edenia? Does he still have a lot to learn about his role and asks for advice or did the obelisk training in MKA give him the instructions he needs to be a god?

Also how will his personality be expanded? I thought a while back you mentioned Fujin Protector of Earthrealm would be more different from their usual protector Raiden by being more snobby to the kombatants. Will Taven kind of be the Clancy Brown Raiden (wise and sarcastic) from the animated Defenders of the Realm series? Plus will he be a little gloomy since he fought his evil brother and the latter was cast down into the Netherrealm? Finally are there going to be some cameos where he'll advise the newly-appointed Queen Kitana or assist Jade in case you comes into contact with Tanya again?

Taven's journey in Armageddon made him gradually turn bitter about The Quest, like he doesn't WANT to be Protector-God because it's torn his family apart and made his brother turn on him.

So I'll probably continue him along that path, have him resent his position and reluctant to participate, but eventually realizes he has a responsibility to protect these people who live in his realm and pray to him for guidance and stuff.

Kitana will probably be a character in his story, I imagine her being the one going "get your head out of your ass and do your job" a lot since, y'know, she's Queen now, and saving the Edenians is her job too.

Sooo...some potential brief romance maybe there? I mean, not straight up, but kinda implying, some chemistry maybe going on? Because aesthetically they look right and it would be interesting to see some romantic relationship for Kitana with someone else than Liu Kang (too much goodie goodie and boring over the time). But not for long, since you wanted Raiden to kill him. I dunno, I think it would add up to this whole character growth dynamic for both Taven and Kitana.

Another ending in Armageddon that made little sense was Reptile's. For some reason, the Armageddon pyramid, which was meant to be the final battle of many warriors, has a living female saurian in stasis inside. Also strange, Reptile's ending is one of the few that doesn't involve gaining powers or something. Just the pyramid breaking from Blaze's defeat.

Will this saurian appear in the Razorverse or regard this as another random Armageddon ending?

I don't have your first post up to cross check so sorry if I get some facts messed up!

I think the Chaos God is, well, it seems like a given. What I got from Mortal Kombat Deception about Seido and Chaos Realm was that they subverted the traditional "Chaos is evil, Order is good", at least to a degree. I think having a God of Order who wants absolute control through totalitarian subversion would be a more interesting dynamic to play with. The complete nullification of emotions, manipulation, a God of Order who basically wants control by making everyone drones.

I think that's what I like about Havik, the guy seems to do good things in the name of chaos and it's clear he sees a bigger picture. Chaos in Mortal Kombat seems to represent free will, and having our heroes aligning with chaos and trying to find a balance would be really interesting to watch it fold out.

I like your ideas for your new characters, especially the Lin Kuei story arc you've got planned. Moving them into Outworld is an amazing idea, and having those in the clan who disagree with Grandmaster Sub-Zero but aren't immediately "well fuck you man" and turn evil is excellent story telling. It's realistic, to sum it up!

I'd be interested to see where everyone else turns up, going by your roster for "Game 1", there's a lot of returning favorites. In this hypothetical game, I'd really like to see that balanced out with more new characters (dare I say akin to MKX?), and you've definitely got the talent to come up with some fantastic ones.

Yeaaaahhh...that one's bullshit.



Let's just say you shouldn't assume that just because I call him the end boss, that he's just an evil guy there to be killed, or that he actually shares the goals of the three villains trying to summon him. I may or may not be swerving you as part of my attempts to avoid spoilers.
As far as new characters...well, Ferra/Torr certainly represents a new bar being set on the "what the fuck is that supposed to be" scale, I don't know if my style is capable of looking quite that weird/gross, but there will definitely be monsters. Mostly of familiar races, y'know, a couple new Tarkatans (that look nothing like Baraka outside the teeth), a Centaur...I do have at least one new race in mind though.

I didn't manage to read everything, but there was mention of a ruler in Chaosream?

Isn't that a ittle bit oxymoronic - -> if someone would become that wouldn't his or her subordinates immediately work to dethrone him/er?

Cool story, tho'.

No, no ruler of Chaosrealm.

The God of Chaos.

Only one?

Well there's only the one God of Thunder...

He was mentioned in Deception. Chaosrealm used to be a regular world then he came along and unleashed "The Tempest", the big energy column/tornado thing you see in the middle of the map in Konquest mode. That's what makes it all astral plane-lookin' with floating landmasses and no laws of physics instead of a round planet.

How will Earthrealm and its protectors (Kung Lao etc.) deal with the aftermath of Armageddon? Is it jut business as usual or are they really prepping for the next attack possibly by a rogue Thunder God?

It's more like the gap between MK3 and 4 or 4 and Deadly Alliance, things get quiet and a few years pass. Raiden's missing and presumed dead.

How will Kenshi and Cyrax fit in the post-A storyline? Sektor is pretty much dead along so there's no major enemy for Cyrax to combat plus Kenshi sort of lost his chance against Shang Tsung AND Mavado (in DA storyline) pretty badly so...

Cyrax is the OIA's head field agent. I've always liked him working with Sonya and Jax best.

Kenshi's your typical "wanderer searching for a purpose" sort of hero, I suppose. I don't have his role entirely fleshed out yet beyond the usual "psychics can sense when the universe is fucked up" stuff..

To be fair about the "Terrible Triad" under development, it's going to be quite difficult to make these bad guys unique yet gain some notoriety like Kahn or the Deadly Alliance. Whenever I envision these three, the three Furies from God of War: Ascension always comes to mind yet they didn't really seem pretty memorable to GOW fans at all. So these guys shouldn't be a copy of the Furies yet they need to show some powerful unison when fighting numerous protagonists at the same time not unlike the Deadly Alliance which all falls apart in the end (backstabbing was prominent in DA but the triad guys want to unleash a god. I doubt they'd have any benefit if one was to backstab the other).

And you noted earlier that gender was negotiable so I guess it wouldn't hurt for one of them to be a female. Now Kitana/Jade/Mileena's teacher HAS to be male which he was implemented as the opposite of Bo Rai' Cho so that leaves us with two possibilities. The first potential character could be the White Mage, but let's face it: It's just another sorcerer! We already have one vacated (Tanya) so this one is out. Now the final choice is where I'm interested. In the entire MK universe, we have seen females from almost every realm (especially minor ones such as Zaterra and Vaterrenus (or is it one realm as that last guy brilliantly put it in his Reptile character analysis), but not ONE from Chaosrealm and Orderrealm. I find the former problematic because it's way out of our imaginations to imagine her description (chaotic you know?) otherwise she might turn into another Tarkartan ripoff while Orderrealm on the other hand deals with law, order, and ultimately PERFECTION. Orderrealm females might be beautiful, but the Seidan leader of the group might have endured a major accident that could have disrupted her faith in Order and maybe her face so she installs a mask on her face along with a masculine voicebox to conceal her deformities (I've got to admit it seems another Kabal scenario, but unlike him she turns to the dark side while the former becomes good and evil after Mavado). Once the game builds up to the final battle with the Chaos God, her mask will finally come apart, revealing her gender and her scars.

Or maybe I'm looking at this concept at a wrong angle: Maybe the accident happens and her face DOESN'T get destroyed but her mind becomes traumatized that she THINKS she's deformed even though she's PERFECTLY beautiful kind of like Calendar Girl from the New Batman Adventures. Even though she sees her face in a reflection, all she looks at are her flaws which is further pressed on by Orderrealm's constant expectation of perfecting its inhabitants even their appearances to conform to their laws.

Or screw the above stated and make her some pony-tailed female ripoff of Hotaru. I don't know the possibilities are endless.