Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-21005855-20141006223216

201.37.40.52 wrote:

@Dragonspyne I don't think that "forgotten" necessarily means extinct. It might mean that her race migrated to an isolated location for some reason and was forgotten by the rest of Outworld for example. But of course, I won't discard extinct, just like I wouldn't assume that Boon was talking about her race.

I once thought of Kotal Kahn as the protector of Outworld too, but since I always thought of a protector being like Raiden - a guy with massive amounts of elemental power flowing through him - I slowly forgot about this. Kotal didn't look like a god, entity or... whatever Raiden is considered to be by me, just a skilled warrior with special powers over the sun and blood. To me, he looks much more like the chief of an ancient tribe.

Also, if he's the protector, why would he have to assume power as the new emperor, substituting Shao Kahn? Didn't he have that much power over Outworld before it? And I also don't think a protector would like to rule over his realm like an emperor, for example. Only to protect it, like Raiden always does. I didn't say that her race was extinct. I said that it could be on the edge of extinction. If you look at species that we discover here on Earth, it's usually because there are not a whole lot of them left and are on the edge of extinction.

Sure, he looks like a chief but his variations all say "God" in them. Plus, his skin is very similar (not exactly like) to the skin tone of the Elder Gods and, mostly, Shinnok.

He could be like Shinnok who is a tyrannical God who would take over a realm because he likes the idea of ruling something. Shinnok did try to rule over Earthrealm many years ago. Maybe this is the one exception to the rule.