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the story of mortal kombat
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the
fall of shinnok
At
the beginning of time, there were the elder gods and the
minor gods. Shinnok had two sons; Rayden and Shao Kahn.
As a test, he made them battle each other to see who the
stronger one was. Rayden came out on top and Shao Kahn
dissapeared from the scene for quite a while. After the
earth realm was formed, the elder god Shinnok gave in
to greed and false illusions of power; he decided to take
the earth for himself, to rule over it with unmatched
power. In order to enter the earth realm without the intervention
of the other elder gods, he created
sacred amulet that could only be created once....
Upon entering the
earth realm, Shinnok was faced by a young god who was
appointed to defend the realm -- Rayden, god of thunder
and his own son. Destructive battles raged between Shinnok
and Rayden, plunging the planet into centuries of darkness.
Rayden rose victorious... and with the help of the true
elder gods, he banished Shinnok into the Netherealm. After
the great darkness that covered the land, humans were
called together to create a massive temple in the Himalayan
Mountains. It was to house the sacred amulet and keep
it from falling into the wrong hands. Rayden appointed
four guards to protect the amulet, each representing one
of the four elements that make up the earth realm: Wind,
Earth, Water, and Fire. Known by many names,these are
the four elemental gods who are necessary in balancing
the earth's forces but can be extremely destructive to
the earth's inhabitants... As long as the Amulet remains
in the earth realm, out of Shinnok's reach, Shinnok would
be trapped in his confines in the Netherealm. Over the
centuries, the stories and legends that were passed on
from generation to generation, eventually died in man's
unrecorded prehistory; these events were undocumented
other than a single map, the Sacred Map of Elements.This
map tells of the great battle between Shinnok and Rayden
and shows the way to the massive temple in the Himalayas.
When the fallen elder god Shinnok arrived in the Netherealm,
it was ruled by Lucifer; or better known as Satan. The
dregs of hell tortured and tormented Shinnok for thousands
of years.. |
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the
fall of edenia
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civilized realm known as Edenia was once a living planet
similar to the earth. A peaceful, quiet planet it was ruled
by King Jerrod and Queen Sindel. Edenia used a fighting
tournament to defend itself against invaders just like the
earth does now. But the dark emperor known as Shao Kahn
managed to successfully invade Edenia and take the life
of Jerrod, just shortly after the birth of Princess Kitana.
Kahn then sapped the realm's energies, causing Edenia to
become a large wasteland known as The Outworld. Shao Khan
took Sindel as his queen and Kitana as his step-daughter,
the realm would remain in this condition until Kahn's reign
over it would end. The thought of serving Shao Kahn eventually
drove Queen Sindel to madness, thus committed suicide at
a young age. Kahn was enraged by this. He withheld her soul
from moving on to a higher existence and used it as a token
for his victory over Jerrod, as well as a constant reminder
of his power to Princess Kitana. Over the years, Princess
Kitana was trained as a personal assassin for Shao Kahn,
working alongside her friend, Jade. Another of the many
assassins trained to serve Shao Kahn was Rain, the son of
a general in Edenia's army who was killed by Kahn during
his invasion. Shao Kahn's next target was the realm of earth.
The rise of Shinnok in the Netherealm later in the millennia,
a free roaming sorcerer named Quan Chi approached Shinnok,
aware of his suffering for those thousands of years in the
Netherealm. Quan Chi agreed that he would free Shinnok from
his confines and assist him in defeating Lucifer, in exchange
for power and the position to rule at Shinnok's side when
he escapes the Netherealm entirely. The two waged a war
against Lucifer and his minions, it lasted for centuries
following. But eventually, it came to an end as Shinnok
defeated Lucifer and took his seat as the new ruler of the
Netherealm. But unlike the Outworld, the Netherealm has
never been a living planet -- Shinnok had nothing to rule
over but a desolate wasteland of fire and brimstone, inhabited
by grotesque demons. So he decided to create a physical
world, he transformed the demons into as human a form as
possible, and tried his best to emulate the realm he wanted
so badly: earth... But the Netherealm was and always will
be a dead world, only with its true form being hidden by
its new ruler. Shinnok gave Quan Chi the position of arch-sorcerer
to rule at his side in the now-expanded Netherealm, for
freeing him and helping defeat Lucifer's forces. If Shinnok
could escape from the Netherealm entirely, they could rule
over a much larger territory, but the only way that could
happen is if Shinnok regained possession of the amulet.
Quan Chi went on to spend centuries making attempts at acquiring
the Map of Elements, with one failure after another. The
Shaolin temples discovered the sacred Map of Elements and
kept it hidden within their temples in China, only a select
few knew of the map's existence and the story it told, including
a Shaolin monk named Kung Lao |
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the
mortal kombat tournament
| Shang
Tsung, an earth-born servant of Shao Kahn, soon gained the
championship of Mortal Kombat. In order to please the emperor,
he not only took the lives of his opponents, but their souls
as well. After repeated victories in the tournaments to
follow, Tsung became over confident before reaching ten
victories. Tsung's over confidence proved to be his un-doing
as he was defeated by Kung Lao, representing the Shaolin
temples |
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the
lin kuei clan for the centuries
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the north eastern parts of China existed a secret clan of
assassins and thieves known as The Lin Kuei, thriving on
the evil intentions of those who would pay for their services.
Its warriors are humans with special skills and abilities,
chosen at birth to be raised apart from the workings of
day to day civilization, stripped of their former lives
and only the clan knows of their existence. Their abilities
are passed on from generation to generation and honed throughout
the experiences in their lives. A fifth generation Lin Kuei
warrior, known by the name of Sub-Zero, once had a normal
life in America. He lived there with his mother, father,
brother and sister.. Eventually, the two sons were found
spotted by the Lin Kuei clan and they brought them to China;
their mother, father and sister were never seen or heard
from again. The older son would soon inherit the name of
Sub-Zero (5th) |
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The
Ninja During Japan's feudal period
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a renegade Japanese-born Lin Kuei warrior named Takeda returned
to his homeland, he offered his services to various lords
and generals; many of his skills and techniques were soon
copied and learned throughout Japan, eventually "evolving"
into the art of Ninjitsu. Unlike the Lin Kuei, the art of
Ninjitsu involves the use of weapons and magic's that can
be mastered by any human with enough practice. The Ninja
never existed as a single collected clan, but rather worked
as a loosely connected spy network made up of several small
clans; the first Ninja clan was the Shirai Ryu, founded
by Takeda himself, making them instant foes of the Lin Kuei
and Takeda a target for assassination. The Reign of Terror
Soon came with the mysterious death of one of the three
Mortal Kombat tournament masters. Shang Tsung returned,
prematurely aged and weakened for his previous failure,
and brought the half-human dragon, Goro, a member of the
Shokan (a race of four-armed creatures from the Outworld)
along with him... Together, they were to unbalance the furies
and tip the scales of order toward chaos. In a brutal battle,
Goro defeated Kung Lao and became the new Mortal Kombat
champion. Shang Tsung took Lao's soul, retaining the former-champion's
thoughts and memories, he took control of the Mortal Kombat
tournament; it was the beginning an era that alienated the
Shaolin from their own tournament... Goro retained his title
for nine generations, leaving the earth one last opportunity
to defend itself against an Outworld invasion. All it needed
was one earth warrior who could defeat Goro and break the
Outworld's streak... Free Roaming Sorcerers Bargain Shang
Tsung discovered the location of the sacred Map of Elements
through Kung Lao's thoughts and memories. Shao Kahn made
him a free roaming sorcerer for devising a plan that could
almost assure the Outworld's success. About ten years before
the time of the new tournament, Shang Tsung struck a deal
with Quan Chi: in exchange for the location of the map,
Shinnok was to take Sindel's soul, taint it with evil, and
reincarnate it on the Earth realm itself. Giving Shao Kahn
the ability step through the dimensional gates between the
earth and Outworld in order to reclaim his queen It would
take over a decade for Shinnok to accomplish this. In doing
so, Kahn could overtake the Earth, and bar Rayden and the
Elder Gods from intervening, whether Goro wins his 10th
victory or not in Mortal Kombat... But Kahn knew, the plan
could only be activated, a thousand years after it was created
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scorpion
and sub zero
What
Shang Tsung failed to tell Quan Chi was the fact that the
amulet was being guarded by the four elemental gods. The
mere existence of these guards made it impossible for Quan
Chi to enter the temple where the amulet rests, but if he
could get a human to enter, one who could perhaps defeat
the elements..
The fifth Sub-Zero (the older of the 4th's two sons
(who would both once inherit the name of Sub-Zero) learned
of his abilities as a young adult -- the ability to harness
the element of cold. The Lin Kuei's Grandmasters knew his
skills had the ability to develop much faster than those
of other Lin Kuei clan members. Among his first missions
as a Lin Kuei warrior, Sub-Zero was to steal the sacred
Map of Elements from the Shaolin Temples in the heart of
China. Quan Chi realized the fact that he was one of the
only humans with the ability to defeat the elements
Takeda managed to elude assassination by the Lin
Kuei until his elder years, when his life came to an end
not from a vicious battle, but from a poison Scorpion, send
by Shang Tsung, holding the soul of a former member of the
Shirai Ryu named Hanzo Hasashi (code name Scorpion). Scorpion
took over his body, altered his flesh and soul in that of
pure evil, and got onto Takeda's latest mission. He was
to also, travel into the heart of China, home of the Lin
Kuei and location of the Shaolin temples where he was also
to steal the sacred Map of Elements to serve Quan Chi. Sub-Zero
and Scorpion both arrived at the Shaolin temples and soon
confronted each other. Scorpion was killed in the confrontation
and Sub-Zero returned to Lin Kuei headquarters with the
sacred Map of Elements, suspicious of Quan Chi for retaining
the services of a Shirai Ryu ninja. Sub-Zero was then to
go on a mission through the temple that housed the amulet.
Scorpion was given a chance by his demons to return to life
in order to avenge the death of his family and clan but
in doing so, he would lose his memory of his wife and child
forever. He chose to return, to kill the murderer of his
family and clan which he thought was Sub-Zero. Meanwhile
Sub-Zero managed to defeated the elements just as Quan Chi
had foreseen. Quan Chi got the amulet and Rayden was enraged,
he sent Sub-Zero into the Netherealm itself to regain the
amulet back before Shinnok uses it to enter the earth realm.
Sub-Zero managed to get the amulet back into the hands of
Rayden and thus so he prevented the destructive battles
between Shinnok and Rayden from being faught once again,
at least for the time being... He arrived back in Lin Kuei
headquarters, and was then to compete in Mortal Kombat,
once again under the command of Shang Tsung. He boarded
the boat to Shang Tsung's uncharted island. Scorpion, in
the form of a reincarnated specter, soon learned of Sub-Zero's
intentions and followed the Lin Kuei warrior onto the boat... |
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the
kombat begins
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New
earth warriors were also chosen for this new tournament.
Among the top competitors were Johnny cage, Kano, Liu Kang,
Sub-Zero, Hanzo (reincarnated by Quan Chi as Scoprion),
and Sonya Blade. From this point on, the new Mortal Kombat
tournaments took place as described in the Games and Movies
of Mortal Kombat. |
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