Quantile Wrote:
Hey all, this is my first thread on this website. Nice to meet everybody's aqauaintence..

..So with Raiden's defeat over Shao Kahn, Armageddon was apparently averted correct? We all know Daegon was prematurely awaken due to Konquest Mode in MKA as we also see him fighting in the backround of the Pit in MK8 but what about Taven? With history being alterted then there would be no reason for Orin to wake up Taven right?

“This is our tournament remember? Mortal Kombat. We fight it..”

Quantile Wrote:
So with Raiden's defeat over Shao Kahn, Armageddon was apparently averted correct?

Quantile Wrote:
Hey all, this is my first thread on this website. Nice to meet everybody's aqauaintence..

..So with Raiden's defeat over Shao Kahn, Armageddon was apparently averted correct? We all know Daegon was prematurely awaken due to Konquest Mode in MKA as we also see him fighting in the backround of the Pit in MK8 but what about Taven? With history being alterted then there would be no reason for Orin to wake up Taven right?

“This is our tournament remember? Mortal Kombat. We fight it..”

RazorsEdge701 Wrote:


Not so.

Raiden's goal was to stop Shao Kahn from being the last man standing and conquering the universe. He succeeded in that, but that doesn't mean the reason Blaze and the Pyramid were made in the first place has been solved at all, it just means that one particular bad guy won't be around to have a chance at winning when Armageddon happens again.

To truly prevent it, you'd probably have to find and kill Blaze early, since he controls the whole thing and I bet if he were to die before he could summon the pyramid or become his giant form, there'd be no "Prize" energy released.

Quantile Wrote:
Blaze was not the cause of Armageddon. Removing him from the equation wouldn't help anything it would actiually just make things worse. Blaze is an elemental safeguard put into play by Argus and Delia to try to prevent Armageddon. He in no way shape or form originated it.

“Those were $500 sunglasses Asshole.”

Riyakou Wrote:

Blaze was not put in place to prevent Armageddon, he was put in place to end it as quickly and safely as possible.

Quantile Wrote:

Blaze was created and put in place specifically to prevent Armageddon.

Quote directly from Blaze and Taven in MKA Konquest Mode:
Blaze: “Unfortunate. It was not intended that the brothers kombat eachother. Daegon has fallen. Now you must fulfill your obligation.”
Taven: “Obligation? The quest destroyed my family. Explain to me why I should care?”
Blaze: “Your mother, my creator, forsaw the coming Armageddon. That through Mortal Kombat, warriors would unknowingly tap into the very forces that make reality possible. Those warriors are in the crater below. Êngaged in Mortal Kombat.”
Taven: “All of them? But with that many fighting in one place..”
Blaze: “This crater will be the origin of the apocalypse unless something is done to prevent it. The Elder Gods demanded that your father orchestrate a solution. He decided to kill them all when the time came. But your mother argued to nearly strip the kombatants of their special abilities, as some were heros, undeserving of death. In the end they conceived of a contest between you and your brother. Like a coin toss, one side would disarm the warriors. The other would destroy them all.”
Taven: “Which side of the coin am I?”
Blaze: “It is unknown even to me. Your armor is the cataylist. The fate of the kombatants will be revealed when our battle is done. But you must not let anyone else kombat me..”

Blaze is clearly notating here that Argus and Delia created him for the purpose of stopping Armageddon. If it wasn't for his role in preventing the apocalypse then he wouldn't exist.

“Those were $500 sunglasses Asshole.”

RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
The problem is that Blaze was created to prevent Armageddon in THEORY.

Delia's vision became a self-fulfilling prophecy, by creating Blaze, she actually caused it all to happen. If there's no Blaze, that battle will never happen because there won't be a REASON for 60+ superhumans to have a battle royal in that crater.

mwgrant0 Wrote:
First of all I think that NRS fucked themselves with MKA, and what will happen after mk9 if half the kombatants are dead, maybe their fighting energies will calm down because all of the good characters are dead, evil has no need to fight, no fighting, no broken realms, no broken realms no Armageddon.

@drenaline Wrote:
Not to mention that Nothing said Blaze was Destroyed by Kahn.

@drenaline Wrote:
RazorsEdge701 Said;
Boon and Vogel have both said on Twitter, Kahn is meant to be the one who killed Blaze, in the opening scene of MK9.

Also, y'know the part in the opening where Kahn starts glowing yellow right before he kills Raiden?

Shao Kahn doesn't have yellow powers anywhere else in any of the games. The yellow is the energy he gained from killing Blaze.

You might very well be correct, I hope I don't sound like a petty Bourgeois gamer who is trying to sound like an expert. I'm really curious and I don't use twitter. I was looking up about Dan Forden, There was some article in it that claimed to be from Ed Boon and John Tobias. But since it was on a Wiki site (the other was on Comic Vine) it might not be 100% offical. Anyway it said that the ending was meant to have Taven Defeating Blaze and his Armour and Sword were the keys to preventing all the realms from destruction. But Daegon who was starting the Konquest much earlier snagged the wrong armour, and swiped both of the swords resulting in Taven using the original one from the very begining of the Botan Jungle all the way to the pyramid. So Taven became the Gaurdian of Edenia, but Shao Kahn was left standing and Raiden got beaten. So anyway back to the original question, Taven in the new MK Timeline? Well Technically if the Original Timeline doesn't exist anymore because of what Raiden manipulated. Taven is still in a pillar guarded by a Dragon awaiting Blaze's signal. When he does come too he'll get a quest perhaps learning about the God's Beaten by the Elder Sub Zero. Smoke still a human might be with the Lin Kuei and instead of fighting Kabal who is a good guy now he'll learn about Skarlet and Meat.