I personally like the old kamidogu. I agree that they should be these abstract icons that eminate raw power. The daggers could just be weapons crafted using the power of the kamidogu. Like maybe they can reference ashrah and the Kriss blade.

Maybe the blade Ashrah finds was created by Shinnok using the Netherrealm kamidogu. It could have helped him kill Lucifer and attain the throne, however the blade could feed off emotions and bloodlust. Everytime ashrah kills with that blade she loses a piece of herself to the blade.

The dagger could be similar. Only this one can serve as a beacon to evil. Like the blade wants to be wielded by an evil soul or wraith of some sort. Hence why Raiden has Scorpion safe guard it, because the blades proximity to the wraith would silence it. Only Raiden fucks up and let's a demon loose, which is worse than a wraith, so the blade senses it and calls to the entity.

These weapons could be remenants of the Netherrealm war or other great sorcery. Hell maybe Taven and Daegons blades were made from the Edenian Kamidogu. Therefore those weapons would bring power as does their armor. These weapons could even the playing field for some and could lead to some serious problems among realms.

I do not care about how later games portrazed Edenia as a separate realm that got assimilated into Outworld when discussing what MK2 said on the matter. I have no problem with Edenia in later games (despite not liking the banality of it's existence), I am intersted in what the original material said on the matter.

Umm, reptile's bio states his realmis destroyed, you kinda counterfactualized your own statement.

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His race may live. The realm, does not. The two are not identical.

It sounded like you were referring to the reboot continuity is all.

That aside, I'm a bit more willing to let retcons slide when it's Tobias himself rewriting his own canon to actually make it better.


Again, you implied that they forgot about its existence entirely, when it's not the case.