Cetrion

Cetrion is a character from the Mortal Kombat series.
== Charactah Account ==
The Elder Goddess of Life, Virtue and Light, Cetrion is the sister of the Fallen Elder God Shinnok and daughter of the Titaness and Keeper of Time Kronika, serving her mother to balance the ways of the realms.
Cetrion is an incredibly powerful Elder God capable of manipulating the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Light to her will. She is particularly fond of manipulating earth, forming large boulders to use against her opponent. She can also combine these base elements to create new ones such as metal, ice, magma, and energy. As the Elder God of Life and Nature, living things are created from her mere presence. Additionally, due to her status as an Elder God, she cannot be killed by conventional means, however that does not mean she cannot be overpowered by mortal beings, such as Sindel.
Cetrion possesses a plethora of other abilities such as being able to grow large enough to tower over planets, telekinetically control objects, move freely above the ground, summon volcanoes, and create force fields of different elements with different benefits.
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Mortal Kombat 11
* Mortal Kombat Mobile
* Mortal Kombat: Onslaught
== Trivia ==
* Cetrion is the second Elder God to be playable after Shinnok. However, Cetrion is the first full-fledged Elder God to be playable since Shinnok has been a fallen Elder God in all of his playable instances.
* Cetrion's name and character is possibly based after Ceres, Roman goddess of fertility. Another possible etymology is the Russian word četýre and its Slavic cognates, meaning four; in reference to the four elements that Cetrion controls.
* Although an Elder God is frequently stated to be impossible to kill, Cetrion apparently dies when sacrificing herself to grant her powers to her mother, Kronika, (this act is similar to Raiden releasing his godly essence in an attempt to kill Onaga, reforming later in Outworld after his death). This suggests that only the Elder Gods themselves, Titans (of which Kronika is a member), the One Being, or something akin to Fire God Liu Kang are capable of killing Elder Gods.
** Pre-Battle banter suggests that Cetrion was not truly killed and was channeled into the Hourglass. This information is likely to be non-canon, although this is specifically shared with Kitana—a potential survivor of Kronika's temporal Armageddon.
** It is also possible that, similar to normal gods like Raiden, Elder Gods reform themselves after their death.
* While most intros are usually non-canon or what-if scenarios, in an exchange between Cetrion and Raiden about why the Thunder God does not follow Kronika's plans, he states that Shinnok can never return. Cetrion affirms that if her mother's design fails, a worse evil shall rise. So far, it is unknown what evil worse than Shinnok would thwart the realms once again.
** This could be a possible reference to the One Being. Dominic Cianciolo, Story Director for NetherRealm Studios, states in a tweet that the timelines with the battle between the Elder Gods and the One Being are designed by Kronika herself. It is possible that she is preventing the awakening of the One Being by making timelines where the Elder Gods are victorious over the One Being, which will cause the birth of many realms from its separation.
** Another possible identity of this "worse evil" could be another Titan who has malicious intent for the safety of the realms.
* In another dialogue with Raiden, Cetrion mentions that they both have fought in every timeline. However, in the original timeline there is no mention of a conflict between the two—possibly due to Raiden's death at the hands of Shao Kahn, but most likely due to Cetrion's later inclusion in the lore.
* Despite Cetrion's staunch support of Kronika's machinations including her own words, she is shown to not truly believe in it as stated by Liu Kang during Cetrion's final hour during Kronika's last timeline, during an intro with Skarlet, and in her own Klassic Tower ending. This makes Kronika's decision to mother Cetrion as a Goddess of Virtue partially responsible for her own undoing; as a goddess of virtue itself she cannot fully devote her being to a cause that is in no way virtuous and thus cannot utilize her full strength, resulting in both hers and Kronika's losses against Liu Kang.
* Raiden questioned if Shinnok accepted Kronika's design willingly in a dialogue scene between him and Cetrion, and considering the Elder Goddess's conflict between virtue and her mother's wishes (and taking Shinnok's ending into account from Mortal Kombat X into account which would go against Kronika's vision), this makes it clear that neither sibling truly supports Kronika's vision which would make it necessary to subdue their free will to follow Kronika.
* Cetrion is the fourth female character to fly, those before her being Sindel, Nitara, and D’Vorah.
* Cetrion is the only character apart from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe or the Injustice games that is aware of the existence of the DC Universe, as implied by a dialogue between her and Sub-Zero.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Cetrion at Mortal Kombat Wiki
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