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Baraka belongs to a group of mutants living in Outworld's wastelands. His people are mutated versions of a race belonging to a forgotten realm conquered by Shao Kahn long ago. Most members of his race are shunned by the rest of Outworld and are forced to live in seclusion. Baraka was fortunate enough to have been noticed by one of Shao Kahn's generals and recruited into his army. He's valued by Kahn for his excellent fighting skills and has proven himself one of the greatest fighters in Outworld. Baraka's first taste of real battle was in the Outworld tournament. Baraka was chosen to lead an attack on Liu Kang's Shaolin temple in China in order to lure Liu Kang into the Outworld. Then, he was one of the warriors Kahn chose to fight in the Outworld tournament itself. He didn't do as well as some of Kahn's more seasoned warriors, but well enough that he got to play a key role in Kahn's occupation of Earth. After Kahn is driven out of Earth and Edenia, Baraka must choose whether or not to stay a member of Kahn's army. He finds that he's losing respect for Kahn, but since leaving would mean giving up his prestigious position and going back to life as an outcast, Baraka decides to fight for the Outworld in this new Mortal Kombat.

Nightwolf is a historian who specializes in the history of Native Americans. He does some work to educate people in his community on the history of the local tribes, including the one he himself belongs to. He has also spent his life studying the spirituality and warfare of his tribe, and has become an skilled fighter because of it. He's one of the few people left on the planet familiar with the spiritual powers his ancestors drew upon. When Shao Kahn enters the Earth realm, he uses those powers to protect his tribe's land from Kahn's magic. He saves the souls of everyone in that area, but is unable to save their lives when Kahn's extermination squads attack. He and a few surviving warriors are able to fight off the extermination squads long enough for Liu Kang to defeat Kahn, and drive him out of the Earth realm. After the invasion, Nightwolf goes back to his work, but with a greater respect among the people for the awareness of Native Americans he's trying to bring. When Nightwolf gets word of the new tournament beginning against Shinnok, he checks his research. His people have ancient records that speak of both Quan Chi and Shinnok. Nightwolf embarks to help the Earth warriors, possessing knowledge that will be vital to Shinnok's defeat.

Shang Tsung is a sorcerer who specializes in magic having to do with the soul. He is able to peer into a warrior's soul and mimic all the skill and abilities of that warrior, and to steal a warrior's soul itself. Shang Tsung was a former Mortal Kombat champion, having taken the title during the Edenaian invasion. However, Shang Tsung had ambitions equal to those of his master, Shao Kahn. Tsung attempted to overthrow Kahn and take his empire. For this, Kahn almost killed Shang Tsung. But, instead he gave him an important mission. He needed Shang Tsung's ability to travel between realms without being detected by the gods of those realms. He banished Tsung to Earth and sent the Shokan warrior Goro with him. Shao Kahn instructed him to make sure Goro won the Mortal Kombat tournaments necessary to open the Outworld portals. Shang Tsung was warned that his very life depended on his victory. When Goro finally failed to win in Mortal Kombat, Shang Tsung pleaded with Kahn for his life. Once again, Tsung was almost killed, and would have been had it not been for a vital bit of information obtained from Quan Chi. Shang Tsung told his emperor of his plan to resurrect Sindel on Earth and open the Outworld portals there. A tournament held in Outworld would help to dispense with their enemies and distract the gods. Kahn was impressed enough with the plan to let the sorcerer live. The plan was executed, with much success. Kahn was finally able to step through the portals to Earth, and begin merging it with Outworld. Shang Tsung supported Kahn the entire time, secretly planning to destroy him and rule the Earth for himself. Reptile was to help him defeat Kahn, but before Shang Tsung could act, Kahn was defeated by the Earth warriors. Having lost the Earth realm and the Edenian realm, and his armies depleted, Kahn needs as many strong allies as he can get. Shang Tsung takes advantage of this and gives Kahn and insincere pledge of loyalty. Tsung's life and place in Kahn's army are secured, and so Shang Tsung starts to plan for his next course of action. He will help Kahn restore Outworld supremacy in this new Mortal Kombat, and then kill his trusting emperor.

Hmmmm....Debated by many... settled by few, the name Raiden or Rayden...? I looked around and found out that the name was changed from Raiden to Rayden due to legal reasons after MKI and MKII...there was a Chinese movie that had a character named Raiden so they changed it until recently...when they changed it back to Raiden...research by the great Chris Conner.  Rayden is better known as the god of thunder. Long ago, Rayden was one of the gods responsible for imprisoning Shinnok in the Netherrealm. Afterward, he took on the responsibility of protecting the Earth realm to atone for the civilization he destroyed during the battle. When Shao Kahn challenged the Earth, Rayden helped the Earth warriors fight him in Mortal Kombat. He took his mortal form to compete in the Shaolin tournament, but played only a support role as Liu Kang won the tournament. When Shang Tsung began luring Earth warriors into Outworld, Rayden traveled there after them. He competed in Shao Kahn's tournament, not knowing why Kahn was holding that event and wanting to keep a close eye on him. Little did Rayden know that this was exactly what Kahn wanted. The thunder god was unprepared when Shao Kahn resurrected Sindel and opened the portals to the Earth realm. With the Earth realm merging with Outworld, Rayden had lost his dominion there. Not content to stand by and watch the Earth warriors fight Kahn's armies alone, Rayden gave up his own immortality and fought as a mortal, for the first time being vulnerable to death. He was nearly killed during the invasion, but was crucial in Shao Kahn's defeat. After Kahn is driven out of the Earth realm, the elder gods restore Rayden's immortality. Rayden begins helping to rebuild the Earth, but soon realizes that there is one important thing now missing, Shinnok's amulet. Rayden immediately begins his search for the amulet. He knows that if he doesn't find it before Quan Chi, the results will be disastrous. He tracks the amulet to a shrine somewhere in Edenia, but when he arrives there, he finds the amulet gone. At that moment his fears are confirmed, the amulet is now in the possession of Shinnok. Shortly afterward, Shinnok escapes from the Netherrealm and begins his assault against the gods. The fight doesn't go well, and the losses are heavy. In a final attempt to end the fighting and protect the Earth realm from Shinnok, Rayden declares a Mortal Kombat. What Rayden didn't expect was that by a technicality Shao Kahn would enter the tournament as well. If Rayden and the Earth warriors can defeat Shinnok and Shao Kahn, the Earth will be safe and both will be banished back to their realms. But if they fail, the Earth will be quickly overrun by one evil, or another.

Quan Chi is a free roaming sorcerer, able to travel to any realm he chooses without being detected by that realm's gods. This is one reason he's been so useful to Shinnok. Quan Chi struck a bargain with Shinnok long ago. In exchange for an increase in power, both magical and political, Quan Chi agreed to help Shinnok take over first the Netherrealm, then every other realm in existence. Quan Chi helped Shinnok conquer the Netherrealm, then began looking for Shinnok's amulet, the key to his freedom from that desolate place. Quan Chi finally made a deal with Shang Tsung. Quan Chi gave Tsung the knowledge he would need to resurrect queen Sindel on Earth, and Tsung gave Quan Chi the location of a map that would show him where Shinnok's amulet was. Quan Chi hired the Lin Kuei ninja Sub-Zero to get the map and then to get the amulet. Sub-Zero got the amulet, but was then sent by Rayden into the Netherrealm to get it back from Quan Chi. Disappointed, Quan Chi tried again to get the amulet. He was unsuccessful until after Shao Kahn's invasion. Kahn had taken the amulet from the temple on Earth, and Quan Chi ended up finding it in a shrine on Edenia. His success leads to the new Mortal Kombat tournament that is beginning between the Earth, Outworld, and Netherrealm. Quan Chi enters the tournament to fight for Shinnok. He knows that Shinnok is close to his goal of universal domination, and that he is close to receiving the rewards for his centuries of work.

When Shao Kahn first entered Edenia after beating it's best warriors in Mortal Kombat, he began killing everyone there who he saw as a threat to him. One of the first to die was the general of Edenia's army. That man was Rain's father. Although Rain is Edenian, he was raised by Shao Kahn all his life, and considers himself to be a warrior of Outworld, not of Edenia. Rain served Kahn during the invasion of Earth. He proved himself both in loyalty to Kahn and prowess in battle. During the invasion, Kitana tried to convince Rain to turn against Shao Kahn, and instead to help the Earth warriors. Rain was almost convinced, but life as a servant of Shao Kahn has been the only thing he'd ever known. He refused to give up his loyalty to Kahn, an act that would've almost seemed honorable under other circumstances. After Shao Kahn's defeat, Rain refuses to go back to his home world of Edenia. He travels back to Outworld. There he prepares to fight for the Outworld in the coming Mortal Kombat. He denys his heritage, completely convinced that the path Kahn has chosen for him is the right one.

Shao Kahn is the despotic emperor of Outworld. He is an immortal who has spent thousands of years conquering other realms, merging them with his own realm, Outworld. With each new realm he expands his empire and increases his power. 10,000 years ago, Kahn took over the realm known as Edenia and merged it with Outworld. He killed Edenia's king Jerrod and took Jerrod's wife and daughter as his own. Kahn then challenged the Earth realm to Mortal Kombat, to take yet another realm. But the Earth realm is a special one. From there, hundreds of other realms can be accessed. If he can take the Earth realm, countless other realm will be at his mercy. He sent Goro and Shang Tsung to the Earth realm to compete for Earth's fate. They were successful in winning nine tournaments, but at the tenth, Goro and Tsung were beaten by Liu Kang. Shao Kahn almost killed Shang Tsung for his failure, but agreed to spare his life so he could execute and important plan. Earth's warriors were lured into the Outworld to battle against Shao Kahn himself. But this was merely a diversion while Kahn's sorcerers resurrected queen Sindel on Earth. Shao Kahn stepped through the portals to reclaim his queen. It gave him the opportunity to begin his invasion of Earth. Kahn took the soul of those mortals that were not protected, and sent his extermination squads to wipe out the rest. He was particularly interested in destroying the Mortal Kombat champion, Liu Kang. Eventually, Kahn's daughter Kitana turned Sindel against him, and Kahn lost in a battle against Liu Kang. Kahn was driven back into Outworld, which was now separated from Earth and Edenia. Kahn is enraged at his defeat. The Earth realm is the first to offer this level of resistance. He immediately begins putting back together what's left of his army, finding warriors who are still loyal to him, or will at least fight for him for their own reasons. He prepares for the next time he has an opportunity to take the Earth realm. His opportunity comes sooner than expected. When Shinnok escapes from the Netherrealm, Rayden declares a Mortal Kombat for control of the Earth realm. Kahn decides to take advantage of an often overlooked rule of Mortal Kombat. He finds the Shokan warrior Goro, the former Mortal Kombat champion. Goro alone can enter the Outworld in this new tournament. Kahn offers Goro the position of general of his armies, despite any opposition it might cause. Goro accepts, and Shao Kahn is once again entered into the fight for supremacy of Earth.