Guys I have a question and maybe I'm slow and this has been asked before..
In Raiden's vision he was getting killed..I would assume that event that happens from mortal Kombat 4 and Armageddon had happended which is why they are fighting on that mountain.
But in our most recent mortal kombat This fight is happening on top of a building ... And that game covered MK 1-3.
I'm telling myself that What really changed the timeline is when Raiden killed Lui Kang because if he didn't kill lui Kang then the events leading up to Armageddon would happend if Lui kang lives and defeats Shao Kahn yet again.
Do I get it?someone straighten this out if I got it wrong
"This is where you fall down"
Raiden forced the battle that Shao Kahn never got the chance to win (and he just won the last one, the Battle of Armageddon) to happen in the events of MK3. He did that by letting him win, and by doing so, disrespecting the rules of the Elder Gods of not merging the realms.
At the end of Armageddon, Kahn kills Blaze and consumes Earthrealm, that's the same result if he merges the realms (One Being and s&#@).
To let Shao Kahn win, he needed Kang to be defeated, because he was delaying The Konqueror's punishment.
What I'm sustaining since MK9 and I will just cease when some irrefutable fact from the game is that Raiden didn't prevent Armageddon for simple logic reasons.
Armageddon is caused by the growing numbers of kombatants and the insecurity of the realms. MK9 gives us the false idea that Shao Kahn is the one to be beaten.
What really happens is that, by letting Kahn being punished by the Elder Gods, Raiden prevented him from existing on the same date and hour that he would have existed on the Battle of Armageddon if nothing was changed. By doing so, in the future that would happen if there were no changes, there is no Shao Kahn to kill Raiden atop of the Pyramid of Argus, and that's why his amulet was fixed, because there would be no Kahn to break it EXACTLY AS IT WAS.
The thunder God's amulet marks his death, not Armageddon. He only prevented his own death the way it happened on his vision.
Raiden was blind and thought this prevented Armageddon, but in fact, only prevented "the end of all things" the way it happened before, so he may just delayed, as we can see, we have more kombatants and with no doubt more danger to the realms.