Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-4222221-20140620142209/@comment-4809082-20140730223824

Dragonspyne wrote: Okay so, I'm a little confused. Are we to say that Taven defeats Raiden but ends up in a draw with Daegon? Like they basically kill each other? Or is it that someone else killed Taven after he defeats Daegon? I would want to say that the flaming skull could've been the result of a blast from Blaze so having Blaze defeat Taven. I just can't imagine having Konquest mode being non-canon. There's just got to be a way that Konquest mode is canon and Taven is defeated by someone else. And that was my idea! Considering that Raiden's flashbacks are all leads to the Armageddon, and we see him fighting with Taven, something decisive happened on this fight. We also see Raiden dealing with Darkness about defeating Taven and Earthrealm being spared.

By that flashback (so the fight really happened, but Taven never won against Blaze), we can speculate that Raiden indeed won the battle against Taven and accomplished his half of the deal. The other half was Shao Kahn (who was chosen to win cause he was already Emperor, so he had, in theory, no one to overthrow) kill Blaze, retain his power and spare Earthrealm.

On this context, since Raiden defeated Taven, Kahn managed to kill Blaze, but he betrays the Thunder God about sparing Earthrealm. Makes sense that they engaged in a fight, Raiden could have been there to charge Kahn about the half.

Of course could have happened that Taven was defeated by Scorpion, Daegon or even Blaze. But the fact is that there is a flashback of that fight, it was more important than the Armageddon battle itself, those memories are from events that led to Armageddon, and if Taven had won from Raiden, Armageddon would be postponed as we see on the son of Argus' ending, but that's not what happened, Taven never won and Kahn sanctioned the apocalypse.

I just can't imagine a Konquest mode non-canon too. But if we consider that flashback and that Raiden won the fight, only the events from that fight and forth would be non-canon, and as I stated above, makes sense that Raiden challenged Kahn in the end.