Lava Shrine Priests

Sketches of the Lava Shrine Priests appeared in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, who were intended as background characters. Generations of people who act as the caretakers of the Lava Shrine and guardians of the last known Great Dragon egg ever since they descended from the loyal and faithful holy men of the legendary Dragon King.

= History = The origins of these priests' master teachers explained as they once believed that the long lost, true Emperor of Outworld was a bringer of order and civility because Onaga was a powerful military commander which already made their home of Outworld both a unified, perfect realm and a majestic civilization for thousands of years long before he was betrayed and poisoned by his former advisor Shao Kahn who than stole his throne from him.

After the king's death, they hide the last dragon egg, and kept it out of harm's way. His holy men then first participated in 'blessing' the Dragon King's own army at the time of their ritualized mass suicide pact in his tomb where they will be mummified and wait for his second coming. Then they took the egg with them and traveled to far away lands of Outworld in search of an approperiate location to house the Great Dragon egg. The first area of their choosing was the old Sarna Ruins, but because of this land's growing, unstable conditions, they were forced to locate the egg eleswhere. Traveled far and wide, they finally found this volcano and its hollow, molten caverns as the right location to house the Great Dragon egg. They've made a solemn vow that they and those they passed knowledge onto, would forever protect and care for the egg until the day of it's hatching. they foretold that the birth of the baby dragon once it hatch. will be the rebirth of the Dragon King who will return to reclaim his former empire, and restored Outworld and its people to its fomer glory.

Meanwhile another of Onaga's holy men the same motive and reason have deviced the means of bringing him back to life by returning his spirit to his original body, using their ceremornious magic spell fluent in an old Edenian dead langauge they too incorperated into it. They even once captured the firespawn Blaze and corrupt his original design which pleases their brothers at the Lava Shrine to force him in help watching over the dragon egg.

After many years of their services before they died along with their descendants and acolytes, Onaga's holy men's dream have been achieved and their ancient prophecy have been fulfilled: The Dragon King had returned..