Cetrion

**Cetrion** appeared in 2019 videogame called *Mortal Kombat 11*. Cetrion is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. The Elder Goddess of Life, Virtue and Light, she 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 made her debut in Mortal Kombat 11, serving as the sub-boss and tertiary antagonist in the game's Story Mode.

Cetrion appears human at a glance, but with dull purple skin, green hair resembling seaweed, and tiny green dots around her similarly-glowing eyes resembling shining stars. Her outfit appears to be a combination of teal crystal, green plant matter, and thin brown cords wrapped around her neck, torso, and waist. Chunks of crystal float behind her head in a rough ring shape.

Cetrion is an Elder Goddess who is the sister and counterpart of Shinnok and one of the deities responsible for banishing him to the Netherrealm. She is also the daughter of Kronika.

During the events of *Mortal Kombat 11*, it is revealed that Cetrion, much like Shinnok, was a sleeper agent for Kronika. Both played an intricate game for eons: while she defended Life, Virtue, and Light, Shinnok defended Death, Corruption, and Darkness. Kronika's plans were for both to continue existing, thereby keeping the balance of these essential aspects of the universe.

However, once Raiden caused massive and irreversible unbalance between good and evil by decapitating Shinnok - and therefore taking him out of the game forever - she betrayed her fellow Elder Gods like her brother had in order to assist her mother in creating a New Era, an age where she and Shinnok would once again pit the realms against one another in an eternal struggle.

Cetrion's dominion is Nature and Life, allowing her to control the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Light. Although she stands as a bastion of Peace and Light on the surface, she is loyal to her mother first and foremost, and is perfectly willing to commit atrocities (even murdering her fellow Elder Gods) if it advances her mother's goals. In this respect, Cetrion is shown to be hypocritical, and every bit as cruel and dark as Shinnok.

Still, much like Kronika, Cetrion's actions are not motivated by grief or vengeance, but a very relativist and divine concept of equilibrium that strongly require she and her brother to keep tangling the realms into their conflict, a vision firmly opposed by Raiden. Liu Kang notices that Cetrion, being the Elder Goddess of Virtue, gets weaker by following Kronika's vision, since it directly opposes the very principle she is supposed to stand for. Nonetheless, Cetrion believes that the greatest Virtue is abiding her mother's will of balance, and the Shaolin proves in kombat that her heart is not enough to support such folly. Because of this, it is subtly implied that she - and possibly Shinnok (considering some intros between her and Raiden) - might merely be puppets of Kronika herself, being oblivious to their part of a greater design.

## Powers and Abilities

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.

As an Elder God, Cetrion is not affected by her mother's ability to manipulate or alter the flow of time, similar to Geras. As such, she is able to continue her mother's will of finalizing the New Era without any obstruction to her being as the timeline becomes altered.