Argus, the protector God of Edenia, asked the ruler,King Jarrod to send his personal bodyguards and the best of the Edenian military, known as the Edenian knights. Argus also asked the warriors of the Salmantican islands of Edenia who could manipulate the powers of water and the sea to take part in the tournament as well.
Cyrus, the then protector God of Outworld (before he was vanquished by Onaga), sent the best of the shokan, centaurs and Cyromancers to the Eldar Gods calling.
Raiden, the protector of Earthrealm , sent the shaolin monks from the Wushi provinces of China and the African Warlords known as the 'Vegter Ke Leeu' (who could tap into the Lion spirit which gave them unmatched strength, the tribe which Kai was a descendant of). Raiden also enlisted the help of a meditteranean cult of warriors known as 'Kujdestaret Astral' . These warriors fought with great speed and were able to manipulate their 'chi' into destructive green energies.
The warriors of the realms assembled at the Elder God's collosium and engaged in a long epic battle with all the warriors almost equally matched. However The Seidan Honour Guard of Orderealm and the Kujdestaret Astral of Earthrealm emerged as the finalists. The two factions clashed, in the mightiest battle, the Eldar Gods had seen between mortals and The Kujdestaret Astral of Earthrealm stole the final win.
The astral warriors were then imbued with God like power and with their help, the Elder Gods pushed back Lucifer and his fiends back to Netherealm. After Lucifer's defeat, the significance of the astral warriors diminished over time and they were ultimately forgotten.
Chapter 4-The Orderealmers.
Johnny Cage was a descendant of the Kujdestaret Astral which was informed to him by Bo Rai Cho during his training. After the defeat of Shinnok, he was appointed as the head of the White Lotus Society by Fujin. He travelled Earthrealm in search of capable warriors to join the society and came across a warrior named Abel. Abel was once a member of the Shirai Ryu and a close accomplice to Hanzo Hasashi. He however had fleed from his village when the Lin Kuei attacked and thus escaped out alive. However his act of cowardice later caught upto him and out of shame and regret he never regarded himself as an honorable warrior ever since. Johnny urged him to join the society as a way of redemption for his cowardice,which Abel accepts.
Johnny together with Kung Lao trains enough capable warriors at the Wushi Academy and the White Lotus society and in 3 years, the defences of earthrealm becomes stable once more.
Johnny after fulfilling his duties at Earthrealm, once again departed to Orderealm to better his skills and take his powers to the next level. However Johnny's perception of the denizens of the realm was misguided. This was due to the fact that Master Bo Rai Cho had hid from Johnny, a resistance movement which was slowly taking shape at the realm on the fear that it may interfere with his training.
When Johnny arrived at Seido, he saw some Seidan Guardsmen mercilessly beating a man to death. Johnny fought off the guards and saved the man, who then in return sheltered Johnny at a secret hide out as he had violated the code of assaulting a guard. The man revealed himself as Darrius who was the leader of a small resistance movement. During the days he was in hiding, Johnny saw how stringent the lives of the people at the realm were as even small mistakes such as a curfew violation were awarded with capital punishment. He advocated himself to the cause of the resistance movement and he along with Darrius trained all those who wished to live a free life, in the art of kombat. Johnny Cage's persona and charisma influenced a large orderealmers to join the resistance. Darrius, too saw Johnny as his role model and icon and even went to the extent of sporting sunglasses and a warrior uniform similar to that of Johnny.
In over a span of 7 years, Johnny and Darrius had managed to amass a large enough resistance movement, attacking various official buildings and disrupting the activities of the Seidan Guard. Hotaru, the general of the Seidan Honour Guard, ordered the killing of Darrius and Johnny on sight. During his time with the Orderealm resistance, an apparation of Raiden appeared before Johnny asking him to travel back to earthrealm and rendezvous at Shang Tsung's Island.Johnny wished his good friend luck and Darrius ensured Johnny's safe passage back to Earthrealm.
However unknown to Johnny, Darrius was also an unscrupulous man who desired to fulfil his own selfish ambitions placing them in higher regard than the objectives of the resistance. He had a deep hatred towards the Seidan Guard general, Hotaru and wished to kill him and take over the senate. In order to facilitate this, he ordered an assasin to brutally murder the family of a close accomplice of Hotaru. The guard retaliated and tracked the assasin and killed him. His acts caused him to be expelled from the Seidan guard and was approached by Darrius. The guard revealed his name to be Dairou. With Dairou's knowledge of the Senate, Darrius sought to occupy the senate and kill his foe once and for all.
Here is my take on 'Army Tiers' as far as my fiction and Mk fluff goes. The ones marked N/A are no longer existing in the present time line. If you think that some don't belong in their current place or if I have missed out some, do let me know.
God Tier
Onaga's Undefeatable Army
Elite Tier
The Seidan Honour Guard
The Draco-Shokans
The Centaurs
The Cyromancers (N/A)
The White Lotus Society
The Red Dragon Clan
The Edenian Knights
The Salmaticans (N/A)
The Hellbeasts of Shinnok
The Vegter Ke Leeu (N/A)
The Kujdestaret Astral (N/A)
High Tier
The Tiger-Shokans
The Seidan Guard
The Chaos Clerics and Followers
The Brotherhood of the Shadow
The Lin Kuei
The Black Dragon Clan
The Special Forces
The Demon Warriors of Shao Kahn
Shinnok's creatures of the dark
Mid Tier
The Outworld Warriors
The Edenian Military
The Tarkatan Hordes
The Tekunin
The Orderealm Resistance
Lower Tier
The Wushi Academy
The Edenian Traitors
The Outworld Rebels
The Shirai Ryu (N/A)
The Edenian Freedom Fighters
The Tengu
The Netherealm Oni
Inspired Picture:Orderealm Concept from MK: Deception added by Mel.
Inspired Picture: Official Mk9 concept Art of Chaosrealm added by Mel.
Chapter 5-To be continued......