Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20181011073639/@comment-25561256-20190223181950

@Dragon: That's technically true, although Shinnok was a FALLEN Elder God when all that went down. He was kicked out specifically for that reason. Then again, I suppose the same could've happened to Kronika and/or Geras and now they're renegades like Shinnok was, but if so, that'd be kinda lame, since it'd just be Shinnok's plot again, slightly tweaked.

@Hellbeast: You mentioned Raiden as an "on and off Elder God," but to me, regardless of his status, his actual species isn't Elder God, it's only God. Now that could simply be a part of the lore that just isn't completely fleshed out yet, but as far as we know from all the games up until this point, the Elder Gods aren't anything else BUT Elder Gods, evidenced by Shinnok being banished, yet he's still referred to be an Elder God as his actual species. Raiden, on the other hand, basically got a bump up on his paygrade for the short time when he was granted Elder status.