Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20150227224724/@comment-5561191-20150304003203

@Dragonspyne About the realm merging, you should be right about things returning to normal when it stops, but only things that were destroyed by the merge itself. For example, if a saurian gets "killed" by the magic of realm merging, he could return if it stops like you suggested, as it should probably just obliterate it, not actually kill it. But would that happen if this same saurian was killed by one of Shao Kahn's warriors during the merge (but not by the merge itself), for example? That's an actual death, and I don't think that simply stopping the merge would bring it back.

What was destroyed in Edenia came back when Shao Kahn was defeated because it was destroyed by the realm merging magic. But what about the people? Did they simply come back with it too? I think that the ones that survived Shao Kahn's attack ages ago were probably made slaves by him, or something like it. Kitana and Jade became his personal assassins, Sindel forcefully married him (which is also a kind of slavery) and Tanya... I'm not sure about Tanya, but she probably grew up as a slave as well. I think that's more probable than they simply showing up again after Edenia was free, but of course, it could have happened to some people who were obliterated by the merging.

I'm not sure if Zaterra would be the "saving grace" for the saurians. Ok, they lived there before it was conquered by Shao Kahn, but does that actually make it the perfect realm for them? They lived in Earthrealm before it, and then migrated to Zaterra because of the war between Shinnok and the Elder Gods. So Zaterra itself was only a second choice to them. Nothing proves it's the perfect saurian world. Well, if Shao Kahn wanted to conquer it then it should have some kind of value, but if it was actually better than Earthrealm then Saurians would be inhabiting it since the first ones were born, instead of only migrating to it for an emergency.