Happy to answer both questions.
The pages you see are "MOCK UPS" and only that. They're meant to give a visual to an idea to executives and publishers, and we took it a step further by making it physical so they can sit down with it and look through it. It is by no means a final design or how this book, should it get made, will look. We speak to that in the interview and this is only a pitch. The final book would have all that type of stuff - races, wars, who won what tournament, etc.
Also, I would assume that it would include both timelines. Given the time constraints we worked with, we could only do a handful of characters and only one page per. Our intention is to see 25 years of Mortal Kombat outlined in said Encyclopedia. We understand the concerns, but we are pushing and asking every time for completeness here. Our "Mock Ups" are by no means that.
Hey! You're an....easy man to find. I left you 3 messages on twitter without hoping you'd answer to any of them
) I guess I'm just used to Ed Boon not answering
I don't know if you're a fan of the ASOAIF series, but the World of Ice and Fire recently appeared. It expanded the universe with new places around the world. We can use our imagination with what was given and come out with something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAic94QDik
I don't know about everyone else, but the questions I would like to see answered:
1. How many realms are there? We know the main ones each have a kamidogu, but we can be sure there are many lesser realms as well. We have heard of Zaterra, Vaeternus, Arnyek. In the MK 4 canon comic Tanya introduces a disguised Quan Chi as coming from a distant realm. Though not canon, in the MK Conquest series Raiden says there are soo many realms that he doesn't even know all of them and it takes a really long time to travel from more distant realms to Earthrealm. How could he not know all of them? I mean, I know all of the 200 countries on the globe and I'm just 30 years old, unlike Raiden who is probably at least 100.000 years old (another question I'd like answered, but we''ll get to that later)
How many realms has Kahn's Empire conquered? Tens? Dozens? Hundreds? Being the subject of much talk these days, I can't help but wonder whether it's something similar to the conquests of the Burning Legion in the Warcraft series, the Hellish Army which lays waste to entire planets in the name of the Demon-Lord, the Dark Titan Sargeras, who can't even step through a normal gateway because of how powerful he is. The similarities with Shao Kahn's Empire are tremendous, but, while Warcraft has built upon this, the MK has largely ignored all the good stuff in favour of more Cage condo in Miami.
2) Also, which are all the races? I'd like to see a detailed origin and history of the cryomancers, enenras, saurians, seidans, dragons etc
I'm willing to bet that the cryomancers were wiped out because they pissed off Shao Kahn. Or Shinnok. Probably Shinnok because because Shao Kahn already has on his hands the blood of the Zaterrans and the Osh-Tekk.
3) A detailed timeline. When did the first Raiden-Shinnok conflict actually take place? I'd bet my left arm it was only about 10.000 years ago and created what we on Earth know as the myth of the Great Flood in many religions. It couldn't have been millions of years ago cause Taven meets Shinnok in MK Armageddon and Shinnok was still an Elder God when Taven was buried and hidden in Earthrealm. Now the intro with Argus and Delia deciding to hide Taven shows us that they were already at odds with Shao Kahn and he was preparing to attack Edenia. Furthermore, during knoquest mode, Taven recalls that he, his father and his brother, with the help of dragon Orin and Caro had already repelled one attempted invasion of Shao Kahn a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clFMY1i1CeU -at the 18 minutes 44 seconds mark
Had Edenia already lost the 10th Mortal Kombat tournament by this time? It can't be millions of years in the past, it seems more like these were the final days of free Edenia. The Mk Mythologies game seems to suggest this too, as it begins saying that the war was fought "thousands" of years ago, not millions. Though in MK4 Shinnok says he has suffered "for eons" it could be just an exaggeration of him being in actual Hell. Did Shinnok orchestrate the fall of Edenia in order to weaken the Elder Gods so that he could attack Earthrealm? Real legends from different mythologies do claim that a Great flood greatly damaged the Earth. Researchers and archaeologists have set the date around 8.000 years BC= 10.000 years ago, roughly in the time of the Edenian War in the Mortal Kombat universe.
When was Zaterra conquered? I'd say that about 1.000 years in the past, but the genocide of the entire race came after that (and the MK Conquest series gave a wonderful reason for why Shao Kahn chose to exterminate them). Speaking of which, is the kreeyan race canon? It was mentioned in the canon MKX comic book in Reiko's flashback and Reiko was also involved in the blietzkrieg war the Empire had with the kreeyan forces in the tv series.
4) Why was Reiko, who had fought on Shinnok's side thousands of years ago in the first Shinnok-Raiden war that raveged Earthream, so against Shinnok's invasion that he almost comitted suicide before Havik changed his mind?
5) Why does Reiko have a grudge against Quan Chi, as shown in the MK Armageddon konquest mode?
6) If in Ermac is the soul of King Jerrod and Mileena was created using Kitana's DNA, does that make Ermac a little bit her father?
7) Talking about Reiko, how old is he to have fought in that war? How old is anyone? I tried to guess:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MortalKombat/comments/4h8za9/who_are_the_eldest_and_wisest_mortal_kombat/
8 ) When did Drahmin live? We know he was a great warlord of high statute in the Outworld Empire. Did he respond to Shao Kahn? Was he one of his Generals? Speaking of generals, who lead the Empire's armies in the Edenian War? I'm betting one of the Army Leaders was Reiko. Another may have been Drahmin. Maybe even Quan Chi as Taven vaguely remembers him. And who was on Edenia's side? At first King Jerrod, Lord Argus, Taven, maybe a young Daegon. Maybe even summoning Elder God Shinnok in a ritual. Then young Rain with the Edenian Resistance, with the assistance of Gods Raiden and Fujin from other realms. Ultimately Sindel who does her ward magic by killing herself. Maybe even teenager Kitana tried to fight before being brainwashed? Maybe Tanya? I doubt she was too young as Edenians mature pretty fast and then stay like that for thousands of years. In the original games Kitana was a teenager when her mother died, even remembering Sindel in MK3. Only the Legacy series made her an infant (stupidly and non-canon, as Shang Tsung who was there was actually only born 9000 years later). Could Kitana have tried to fight against the invasion?
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/queensindel/sindel7.html
9) Did Shao Kahn's Empire have a Gods Pantheon? Again, there was an awesome scene in the last Mortal Kombat Conquest episode, with Shao Kahn's warriors worshiped as Gods in a community close to Zhu Zin (Shanghai). Maybe you guys will like reading a little story about this I tried to start:
http://www.trmk.org/forums/showthre...4-000-years-ago-in-Ancient-Outworld-and-Egypt
10) Who does Nitara answer to? Is there a high ranking authority of the vampires? Vampire Elders? What is Nitara? Is she a Princess of them? What's the origin of the Kriss?
11) How did Chaosrealm came to be? I have my theory that it's a planet slightly moved off its axis and drawn towards a bigger planet (Seido?) in a a binary system, therefore the rock formations that float, drawn by both the bigger planet and the gravity of the Chaos planet itself. But it's just a theory.
12) Who created the soul stones deep into the Netherrealm ? Sorcerors, yes, but which sorcerors? Who was that powerful and we haven't met him/her yet?
13) Is the Netherrealm infinite? How did Shinnok get around? Did he try to explore it? Did a previous civilization live there? Who wrote the ancient runes that Quan Chi found at the beginning of the Deadly Alliance? Well, actually, it was Drahmin who found them and then lead QC there.
Now of you're going to spend 2 pages on Scorpion's origin, his moves, finishers and game story (which we all know and is found just a click away on the internet) the encyclopedia won't be exactly what I and many more like me want. There won't be enough room to explore all the other things. Why read again something we already know? Who is interested in that?
Good luck with your project ad I hope it will answer questions like the one I posted above!
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