About Me
I am of the primary villains in the Mortal Kombat series, I am the Emperor of Outworld. I resemble an Asian warrior-king in many respects, and embodies evil in many forms. I am known for my godlike strength, extreme callousness, brutality and my enjoyment of executions, but rises above the level of a mere warlord through my intelligence and knowledge of black magic. Like my subordinate Shang Tsung, I have the power to consume others' souls.
I originally served as an advisor to Onaga when the latter ruled Outworld as the Dragon King. Onaga's Empire had become the most powerful in the realms and so I began searching for a way to become immortal. Before my goal could be realized, I made my move by poisoning Onaga and taking his kingdom. Leading whatever troops that remained loyal to the Dragon King, I continued many of the former emperor's plans. I continued to add lesser realms to Outworld, either through direct conquest or through Mortal Kombat.
A milestone in my military victories was the merging of Edenia with Outworld. After my warriors had won in Mortal Kombat, I invaded the realm. On the battlefield, I killed King Jerrod, and took Queen Sindel as my wife, raising her daughter, Princess Kitana, as my own. I had the young princess trained as his personal guard and as an assassin. Sindel took her own life in an attempt to escape subservience to myself. Unwilling to be denied, I held her soul in Outworld, stopping her transition to the afterlife.
Many years later, I chose Earthrealm as my next conquest. I sent Shang Tsung and eventually Goro to Earthrealm to prepare it for an invasion in the event of Goro maintaining his position of champion. A turning point came when Prince Goro defeated the Great Kung Lao and started a winning streak that would last for 500 years. Shang Tsung, a shapeshifter, supervised the tournament. The tenth Mortal Kombat however, saw the defeat of both Goro and Shang Tsung by Liu Kang, ruining five hundred years of Tsung's investment. Shang Tsung begged me for his life, and came up with a plan to lure Earth's chosen warriors to Outworld for a second tournament. I spared Tsung's life and restored his youth. I concocted a plan to lure the Earthrealm champions to Outworld; if they could be killed, they would not be able to cause further damage to my plans. I captured Kano and Sonya Blade to use as bait, and enraging Liu Kang by sending Baraka and his troops to destroy the Shaolin temples, they confidently waited for the Earth warriors to fall into the trap. Despite my vast power, Liu Kang's determination saw me through, and he defeated the despot. Unwilling to accept defeat, I called my armies to destroy the Earthrealm warriors. They fled back to Earthrealm, out of my clutches.
By this time, Shang Tsung was able to resurrect Queen Sindel in Earthrealm, and I would be able to cross the border to claim her. I had Tsung proceed, and once I invaded Earthrealm, I began to merge it with my own realm of Outworld. Nearly every living being in Earthrealm had their souls ripped from their bodies by me, claiming them as my own. my day finally seemed to have come. But not all hope was lost, as Lord Raiden had protected the souls of a handful of warriors (and some like the robots Sector and Cyrax had no souls to take and he also couldn't detect them) I sent extermination squads to hunt them down and kill the remaining survivors. It would be these chosen warriors task to try to stop me, and return Earthrealm to its normal state. In the ensuing fights, I was confronted by Kung Lao, another Shaolin monk and descendant of the warrior Goro defeated to become champion of Mortal Kombat, but I crushed him. It was Liu Kang who again managed to defeat me. Worn down from the battle, I recalled his squads and retreated back to Outworld. This stopped the merger with Outworld, and restored Earthrealm to its original status. To make matters worse for me, many of his loyal soldiers had abandoned me, and Kitana had succeeded in turning Sindel to her side, restoring Edenia as an independent realm.
