Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular fighting games of all time, but the one of the main reasons, gamers keep coming back to it, is its storyline. Mortal Kombat has one of the richest storylines in fighting game history. The One Being and The Elder Gods
At the beginning of time, there only existed two beings: The Elder Gods and the One Being. The One Being declared war on the Elder Gods to obtain ultimate power. Eventually, the Elder Gods defeated the One Being and in an effort to weaken the One Being, the Elder Gods sepereated the One Being's consciousness into 6 realms: Earthrealm, Netherrealm, Outworld, Orderrealm, Chaosrealm, and Edenia each with a representative Kamidogu which held the essence of each realm. Thus the realms were created to further weaken the One Being and prevent his reawakening. Shinnok and the War for Earthrealm
The Elder Gods watched over the realms, and govern the realms with untold wisdom. But one such Elder God, known as Shinnok gave into greed and illusion of false power and wanted the new realm of Earth for himself. However, the Elder Gods had appointed the young God of Thunder known as Raiden to protect Earth. The battle between Raiden and Shinnok was fierce plunging Earth into its near destruction and plunging it into centuries of darkness. Raiden discovered that Shinnok entered the realm through the power of a mystical amulet. It allowed Shinnok to enter the realm without challenge and keep the Elder Gods from interfering. Forced to choose between destroying the budding Zaterran civilization or to ceed Earthrealm to Shinnok, he choose the former and stripped the amulet of Shinnok's possession and with the aid of Elder Gods, banished the fallen Elder God to the Netherrealm. Raiden buried the amulet deep with the mountains of Asia and created a massive temple to house the amulet and appointed four guardians to serve as the protectors of the amulet. These guardians represented an element that make up the realm: Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire. As long as the amulet remained on Earth, Shinnok would remain trapped in the Netherrealm. The murder of Onaga
At some unknown point in history ruled a emperor in the realm of Outworld called Onaga. Onaga was the first Emperor of Outworld, uniting a otherwise divided realm. He began to conquer other realms merging them to add that realms power to Outworld and expand his ever growing domain. Onaga's secret to victory was his undefeatable and seemingly invincible army. Onaga's heart gave him the ability to raise the dead, allowing him to revive his dead soldiers over and over. However Onaga wished to live forever, using the last dragon egg his followers formed a spell that would transfer his body into the tiny dragon inside and with it, be granted enternal life. It was at this point Shao Kahn, who had been a trusted advisor at Onaga's side decided to strike. Onaga was posioned, with Onaga gone Shao Kahn took control. However, unlike Onaga Shao Kahn was not able to rule Outworld as a united realm. The conquest of Edenia
Like Onaga before him, Kahn sought to expand his domain and his power through conquests of other realms. He attacked and conquered many small realms, slowly building up power over thousands of years. Eventually he built up power enough to take on another realm equal to Outworlds power to gain even greater power, namely Edenia. To conquer Edenia, Kahn had to win the sacred tournement protecting the real if he succeeded it would allow him to merge the two realms. Despite the warriors of Edenia's best efforts, Kahn eventually won and Edenia was conquered. The ruler of Edenia, King Jerrod was murdered, Kahn took his wife Sindel as his queen and adopted their daughter as his own. However, Sindel could not bare the thought of being Kahn's queen and murdered herself. [ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for The Mortal Kombat storyline ]
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